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Second betas of Opera Mini and Opera Mobile

By Zara. Wednesday, 2. December 2009, 06:48:21

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Opera today launched the second beta versions of Opera Mini 5 and Opera Mobile 10. In this second beta release, Opera Mini and Opera Mobile users can now enjoy popular desktop features, such as Opera Link and the Download Manager, from their mobile phones.

With Opera Link, users can synchronize personal browser settings with their Opera desktop browser, as well as all their connected devices, ensuring that their bookmarks, Speed Dial and search engines are always accessible. The Download Manager gives users a better way to control and speed up downloads to mobile phones.

Features further polished in the second beta release are the unified look and feel across Opera's browser products, the visual bookmarks known as Speed Dial, and tabbed browsing, one of the most popular innovations in browsing history.

Fun facts on the growth of Opera Mini: Opera reports that almost 40 million people used Opera Mini in October, saving users 9.4 billion USD per year just by choosing Opera Mini.

Download Opera Mini 5 beta 2 directly to your phone from http://m.opera.com/next/ or read more from http://www.opera.com/mini/next/ The second beta of Opera Mobile 10 is available as a free download to Windows Mobile and Symbian/S60 handsets at http://m.opera.com/next/ or read more from http://www.opera.com/mobile/

Resources
• Screenshots are available at: http://www.opera.com/press/resources/
• Keen to do some activities around Opera on mobile? Check out the Mobile Browsing World Series.
• Check out our list of activities you can do to spread the word about any launch, like writing a review of it on your personal blog, commenting on any articles you see about it, or mentioning it on your favourite social network.

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Opera Mobile 10 Beta for Windows Mobile

By Zara. Wednesday, 18. November 2009, 07:03:02

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Following on from the launch of Opera Mobile 10 beta for Nokia and other Symbian S60 smartphones two weeks ago, Opera Software is now unveiling Opera Mobile 10 beta for Windows Mobile.

The Opera Mobile 10 beta for Windows Mobile looks and feels similar to the Opera 10 desktop browser and Opera Mini 5 beta. Opera is creating more cohesion between its products by introducing a unified look across many of its platforms. Opera maintains its powerful arsenal of features in this
beta, including Speed Dial, tabbed browsing, a password manager and its super, server-side compressor, Opera Turbo.

1. Intuitive new interface – Opera has thrown out the clutter and is keeping it simple in terms of aesthetics. Less is more when it comes to mobile browsing.
2. Speed Dial – Speed Dial serves as your personal table of contents for the Web. Your favorite sites welcome you upon launching Opera, and in one click, you are there.
3. Tabbed browsing – Open new links in multiple tabs to bounce between sites easily.
4. Password manager – Save those annoying passwords with Opera’s password manager, or if you are feeling vulnerable, simply and swiftly delete all.
5. Touchscreen or keypad navigation – Whether your Windows Mobile smartphone is touchscreen or keypad-based, Opera Mobile 10 beta is customized for your navigation style.
6. Save images – Select and save your friends’ Facebook pictures to your phone for offline viewing later.
7. Opera Turbo – Offload your page rendering to one of Opera’s servers, and reduce your data costs.
8. Advanced compatibility - Since Opera Mobile 10 beta is based on Opera’s browser for desktop computers, it maintains advanced Web-site compatibility and ensures that nearly any site is accessible from a mobile phone.
9. Smooth surfing – Pan, zoom and smoothly scroll your way through the Web.
10. It is free! – Opera Mobile 10 beta for Windows Mobile is available as a free download at http://www.opera.com/mobile/ or m.opera.com/mobile/ (for phone download).

Spread the Word
Get involved in the Mobile Browsing World Series! These are activities – such as demonstrations, presentations or handing out fliers/posters – focusing on mobile browsing, that you can hold at any time on your campus.

Resources
• View the features video at http://www.opera.com/mobile/features/
• Screenshots are available at www.opera.com/press/resources/

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Mobile Browsing World Series!

By Zara. Wednesday, 4. November 2009, 14:36:16

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Following the recent releases of Opera Mobile 10 beta and Opera Mini 5 beta, we are launching the Mobile Browsing World Series! :yes: This follows on from the Opera 10 World Series, which focused on the landmark release of our latest desktop browser.

The World Series will be a series of Opera events focusing on Opera's mobile browsers, held by Crew members across the globe at times that are most suitable for them and their campus. The Mobile Browsing World Series is a great opportunity if you are looking for a new kind of activity, or if mobile browsing is more popular with students in your country/area than desktop browsing. Even though these products are in beta, you can still spread the word about them. :cool:

Activities
There are a range of activities you can do as part of the Mobile Browsing World Series
• Arrange a presentation: Arrange a presentation about our mobile browsers. You may even like have as your topic 'Mobile Internet for Beginners', and perhaps focus on first-year students (here is a slideset and example agenda for that kind of presentation).
• Hold a Demo Day: Hold a Demo Day focusing on demonstrating Opera Mini and/or Opera Mobile.
Conduct interviews: Hold interviews or do surveys with students about their experience with mobile browsing, and use it an opportunity to tell them more about Opera and answer any questions or concerns about mobile browsing. Use our interview guide as a starting point, and you can customise it with questions based on information you would like to find out.
• Distribute Opera Mini comics: Help new users understand how they can use Opera Mini by showing situations where Mini comes in handy, through our Opera Mini comic strips. You could leave one on each chair in a cafeteria or computer lab, or walk around handing them out so you can add a personal touch and answer any extra questions. Check out these posts about members in Indonesia and the Philippines handing out the Opera Mini comics.
• Hang up Opera Mini posters: We have updated the Opera Mini posters (in English, Indonesian and Russian) to include the new features introduced in Opera Mini 5 beta. We will shortly add a poster targeting BlackBerry users.

Other Resources
• Opera Mini 5 beta demo video
• Opera Mobile 10 beta demo video
• Developer's introduction to Opera Mini 5 beta
• Developer's introduction to Opera Mobile 10 beta

We hope you will participate in the Mobile Browsing World Series! If you have other suggestions for activities that can be part of the Series, please add them in the comments below.

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Opera Mobile 10 beta is here!

By Zara. Tuesday, 3. November 2009, 07:06:49

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Opera Software today unveiled the beta of Opera Mobile 10 for Nokia and other Symbian S60 smartphones. Opera Mobile 10 beta is optimized for both touchscreen and keypad-style navigation and is available completely free from http://www.opera.com/.

Performance was prioritized in this beta. It is twice as fast as the previous Opera Mobile released for Symbian, and users will discover significant speed improvement when downloading pages, zooming and panning. Opera Turbo is also integrated, helping end-users save time and money with its server-side compression technology.

Feature details
• A fresh new design: Opera Mobile 10 beta has a sleek design, which it shares with the recent Opera Mini 5 beta, to ensure that it is simple, intuitive and makes mobile Web browsing easier than ever.
• Desktop favorites on the mobile phone: Opera Desktop feature favorites – including tabbed browsing, Speed Dial and password manager – make it easier for you to surf on the go by reducing the amount of time and effort it takes to get to a Web site.
• Advanced compatibility: Opera Mobile 10 uses the latest generation of the Opera browser engine, ensuring all your favorite Web sites and applications work exactly the way they do on a desktop computer.

Opera Mobile 10 beta is available for Nokia, Sony Ericsson and Samsung phones running Symbian S60 3rd and 5th edition. The beta is free to download to your computer from http://www.opera.com/ or directly to your mobile phone from http://m.opera.com/mobile. Check out the developer's introduction to Opera Mobile 10 beta.

Opera Campus Crew Activities
We currently have out beta versions for both of our mobile products, with Opera Mobile 10 beta and Opera Mini 5 beta. We will have more news tomorrow about an initiative around mobile browsing. In the meantime, check out our list of activities that can be done around any launch to spread the word!

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Opera Mini and Opera Mobile; which one is good for you?

By Miya Mustaniya. Thursday, 18. June 2009, 20:04:24

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Hello there!
If you have a PDA or Smartphone popular devices such as Blackberry, Windows Mobile platform, Symbian, or even Google Android; then you have two solid choices for a web browser from Opera: Opera Mobile and Opera Mini. But which is good for you?

Opera Mobile is designed for Windows Mobiles, smartphones and PDAs. It is a very good browser with plenty of features and supports secure websites. Opera Mini is a free Java browser designed for cell phones without access to a full browser, and isn't the best choice for secure websites, but it does have some advantages over Opera Mobile, and some people prefer it.

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Opera Mobile 9.7 beta!

By Zara. Monday, 8. June 2009, 08:55:56

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Yet another beta from Opera is here! This morning we released Opera Mobile 9.7 beta, which is completely free! :yes: Check out all the features and the video. Extra details are also available at Dev.Opera.

The new beta includes Opera’s recently launched technology for faster surfing, Opera Turbo, compressing the network traffic by up to 80%. Opera has also included its newly upgraded browser engine, called Opera Presto 2.2, for faster page loads and better overall performance. With the added bonus of Opera Widgets manager and Opera Widgets SDK, Opera Mobile 9.7 gets you the Web content you want in fewer clicks and less time.

Opera Mobile works on smartphones and Windows Mobile. Not sure whether you should use Opera Mini or Opera Mobile? Learn more here!

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