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Opera Mini 5 beta for Android phones

By Andreas Bovensandreasbovens. Thursday, March 11, 2010 12:51:35 PM

01-06-2010: Minor update to reflect UA string change

Hot on the heels of our native Opera Mini client for Windows Mobile phones, we have now released a beta of Opera Mini 5 for Android. I've been using Opera Mini for the last couple of days on a Nexus One, and must say the browsing speed and experience are quite amazing.

It's worth pointing out that the UA string for Opera Mini has changed recently:

Opera/9.80 (Android; Opera Mini/5.0.18302/18.684; U; en) Presto/2.4.15

As you can see, our servers now run Presto 2.4 to render pages before they are sent to the client, which means that things like multiple background images, background-origin and word-wrap now work on Mini. We're currently constructing an overview table to show which of the latest standards are supported on Mobile, Mini and desktop, and plan to share it with you soon. Stay tuned :-)

In the meantime, let us know your thoughts about Opera Mini on Android!

University talk resources, March 2010: HTML5 & CSS3 slidesHTML5 Tales from the Development Trenches: South by SouthWest presentation

Comments

techlawsam # Friday, March 12, 2010 12:24:56 AM

nice!

Daniel HendrycksDanielHendrycks # Friday, March 12, 2010 1:22:12 AM

Originally posted by ODIN:

We're currently constructing an overview table to show which of the latest standards are supported on Mobile, Mini and desktop, and plan to share it with you soon. Stay tuned :-)

Awesome, can't wait to see if Ogg will be supported sometime.

Deepnarayan Choubeydeep51 # Saturday, March 13, 2010 5:58:11 PM

Happy day all ! Great works of Opera Mini 5 use in Windows mobile. Thanks.

DavidSchalandra # Sunday, March 14, 2010 5:00:38 PM

Yay! Now THAT's a definite plus factor for a new Android phone.

Unregistered user # Sunday, March 14, 2010 11:14:31 PM

http://acrylicstyle.com writes: I'm waiting for Video and Audio tag support in Opera Mini over anything else, that'd made my day.

Unregistered user # Saturday, May 15, 2010 12:58:12 PM

Miles writes: I am also waiting for audio-tag support in Opera Mini on my Blackberry.

Unregistered user # Wednesday, June 2, 2010 12:02:32 PM

dan writes: there's a problem with opera mini for android. in Romania it cannot connect using the "orange world" apn on my Motorola Milestone. the carrier is Orange Romania. every other version of operamini i had, since the k750 days, whether on s60v3 or winmo6.1/6.5 was able to do it, except the android version. can you guys tell me if there's a special setting i have to add to the apn. or at least direct me to the guys managing the project. thanks. saptemai (at) gmail (dot) com

Unregistered user # Saturday, April 30, 2011 4:09:49 PM

Anonymous writes: support for html5 tags like audio..video..and all..it'd cool.. :)