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Today we had a visit at Opera HQ by Guy Kawasaki, a well known public speaker, author and responsible for marketing the Macintosh in 1984(!). Recently he has been involved in creating an RSS aggregator site called Alltop.

We had a chat with the entrepreneur, and it turns out that there were a few things he did not know about Opera:

Opera Mini is the world's biggest mobile browser which will help you save money by compressing Web sites up to 90% (phew!).

That's right. Mr. Kawasaki was shocked when he discovered that he had to pay up to $5.00 for every MB he downloaded during his stay in Norway. Luckily for him, Opera Mini uses only a tenth of the bandwidth of other browsers, compressing Web pages by up to 90%. That means you can surf more for less money.

Opera Mini on a 2G network is as fast as Safari on 3G.

Extend your battery life on your iPhone by disabling 3G and experience the same speed you get when browsing with Safari on a 3G network. Pretty cool!

Wait? I can synchronize bookmarks and stuff on Opera Mini?

Correct. Using Opera Link, a special Opera Mini folder is created where you can synchronize your bookmarks and Speed Dial from your PC/Mac to a mobile phone running Opera Mini. Check out our tutorial to get started.

Opera has powerful Web applications?

Sure we do! They are called Opera Widgets and Opera Unite.

It sure seemed like Guy had a good time visiting Opera. We also managed to grab a screenshot of his iPhone where Opera Mini is placed in a good positon.