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Thursday Oct. 25th 2007. Mark your calendar everyone!

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As you all probably knew by now, I'm a fan of Opera web browser. I love the current 9.24 desktop version and cant wait to see the finished future enhancement in the new alpha Kestrel 9.5. The fastest browser I've ever used. Period! On my P990, the default web is powered by Opera (although it's not as good as what I expected) and last but not least, Opera Mini which can be used in Flip Closed. I love Opera Browser!

Now here's the interesting part, if you are a user of Opera Mini 4 beta, there will be a new beta 3, scheduled to be launched this Thursday October 25th. Mark your calendar and dont miss this opportunity te experience the next step in mobile browsing.

Here's what the team have to say about the new Opera Mini 4 beta 3 :

The next step in mobile browsing

It's been a month and a half since we released the second beta of Opera Mini 4. People seem to be loving it. I wanted to give you all a quick update on what we've been working on in our labs.

Although we can't yet reveal too much, suffice it to say, we're continuing to work on ways to bring Web browsing on your mobile phone to the masses, while still having the absolute coolest technology out there. We've come up with something exciting, in which we think will take mobile browsing to a whole new level.

So what can you expect to see with the upcoming Opera Mini 4 beta? Well, I don’t want to spill the beans too early, but I will say the following: Mobile browsing is coming very close to the browsing on your computer. More to come at our Rock Opera event in San Francisco.

We're planning on releasing a new beta of Opera Mini 4 next week. The new beta is timed with the release of the Desktop 9.5 beta...


Honestly, I cant wait :wink: ...

Palm OS app on UIQ smartphones are coming... Tracking your favourite stocks and weather... sounds interesting!

Comments

xoo88 23. October 2007, 13:08

Marked on my p990 calendar, hungry to download this beta 3, I love this opera mini too, with zoom in / out function better than build in opera so much, hope can customize the user agent of the browser would be great !! thanks for your news

asrialbaker 23. October 2007, 14:38

xo,

yeah... I found Opera Mini to be very useful. It can be used in both FO and FC mode on P990. Although I dont like MIDP apps in general, Opera Mini is an exception. The Opera Mini coders really did an excellent job with it.

My wishlists for the ultimate Opera Mini would be :

i) Can view/play embedded videos such as Youtube (FLV)
ii) RSS reader like in the old Opera Mini 3
iii) Tabbed browsing (can open more than 1 window at a time, like Opera Mobile)
iv) Faster rendering and compression
v) Real HTTPS support (banking, and other secure websites)
vi) Image uploading support
vii) Extensible (can use plugins like widgets for Opera on desktop)
viii) File downloads support
ix) Content blocker (this will save a lot on bandwith)
x) Content folding like on the old Opera Mini 3

Mmm... What else? If you have Opera Mini wishlists, share it here :wink:

Cheers!

xoo88 24. October 2007, 00:34

wa, what a great wish list, I understand sometime those programmer can did something we didnt think it b4, so that we can tell and tell and tell right? view FLV on opera mini must be great !!and access banking web, also be important too, did u install the opera mini 2.0 hacked ver for a try? with tabbed browsing and ftp function too, but the engine still in 2.0 so that It would be slow than current ver.

xoo88 25. October 2007, 10:21

launched, quick to download !!!!! I had installed this new beta version.

asrialbaker 25. October 2007, 10:53

Woohooo.... I have tried the new Opera Mini beta 3 and it blows ALL other mobile browser away! This is simply the ABSOLUTEFUCKINGLY cool !!! (Sorry for the language... I'm too excited!)

Wanna know the new features? Read at : http://www.operamini.com/beta/features/

Wooohoo!!! :D

xoo88 26. October 2007, 00:10

me too, I had refesh the opera mini beta page for each 5mins, finally I get the update, then quickly to install it via mobile, wahaha, cookies bugs fixed, so good,,but didnt try opera link yet.

asrialbaker 26. October 2007, 07:06

Opera Link is so cool! You should try it you know :wink: Yup, the cookies are now more reliable. I have synched all my Opera Kestrel 9.5 beta and can access them anywhere.

For your guys' info, I have been using Opera Kestrel 9.5 since it's alpha one and already removed Firefox from my PC. It's that good!

Do you think I should do Opera Mini 4 Beta 3 review in this blog?

Cheers!

xoo88 26. October 2007, 11:23

opera sync, it work la, really powerful, i got my whole bookmark on my mobile now !!!

Opera Kestrel 9.5 alpha = 9.5 beta? I just download it from opera beta page

you can post your review or in those forum I access most :smile:
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