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INQ Chooses Opera

By .edDotEd. Wednesday, March 2, 2011 1:08:24 AM

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This is what we like to see!
Opera Mini shipping standard on even more phones! INQ

focuses on the social side of mobile devices and is dishing out two new friend-friendly phones, the INQ Chat 3G and the INQ Cloud Touch (Android) - both come with Opera Mini standard. No need to hit up m.opera.com or the Android Market. These handsets release this month in the United Kingdom, followed by Australia and other markets.

“INQ has been born out of the Internet, and having a great browser for mobile has been something we wanted to get right ... Opera has been one which shares similar values around making things fast and simple.” - Frank Meehan, INQ CEO

I kind of wish my phone was stuffed inside a giant Opera

logo.

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Insider Scoop - Popular phones from Opera Mini users

By Nunonunos. Tuesday, October 21, 2008 8:07:37 PM

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Every month, our State of the Mobile Web report is packed with information about what people do with Opera Mini. But there are always some pieces of information that we don't include in the report. One interesting piece of information is what phones are popular among Opera Mini users.

As a part of this Insider Scoop we are publishing the most used phones by Opera Mini users and the top phones used to download Opera Mini last month. This information gives a cool perspective on what models have been popular in the last months and what are the latest best-selling phones.

This is not a scientific exercise, but with over 19 million unique users of Opera Mini, it gives an insight into what is popular.

Highlights:

Nokia and Sony Ericsson dominate the list and are clearly the most popular brands among Opera Mini users.
Opera Mini is popular with Blackberry users, when compared with the Blackberry global market share they rank very high among Opera Mini users.
Opera Mini seems to be popular both in mid/low end phones as well on so-called smartphones. It seems that, regardless of whether you pay $10 or $300 for your phone, you still want "the Internet"
The only model on the top 25 that is not from Nokia, Sony Ericsson or a Blackberry is the Samsung E250. No Motorola phones appear in the top 25... looks like those pink RAZRs are not so popular anymore.

An oasis for Opera

By Espen André ØverdahlEspenAO. Wednesday, May 28, 2008 5:30:32 PM

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Sagar Chandna, Country Manager, India.

Photo: Kari Vartdal Riise

An article published on Dagens IT is about how India, with its 10 million new mobile phone subscribers during March, is developing into a larger target market for Opera with our mobile Web browser, Opera Mini. Mobile phones in India is experiencing an explosive growth and it's no longer reserved for those with the necessary recourses, but for everyone (and with 1,2 billion people we are talking about a few consumers).

Out of estimated 80 million Internet users, roughly 50% use Internet cafe's as their online portal, but this is due to the fact that India has not established a wide spread infrastructure, yet. If the 40 million that doesn't have Internet at home begin using the mobile phone as an access point to the Web, well, you can only imagine what kind of potential market this is for Opera.

We established our office in India (blog) more than a year ago, so we're situated right in the heat. Opera's CEO, Jon S. von Tetzchner, had this to say: "The question was not if we should establish an office in India, but when. The country is an oasis for a company like Opera Software."

Watch the video about Opera featuring our very own Sagar Chandna.

Read the full article at Dagens IT (Norwegian only).

Picture series is also available.

Kudos to Aleksander for the summary.

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Opera at the Mobile Monday NY conference

By Daniel Goldmandanigoldman. Tuesday, June 26, 2007 5:37:52 PM

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Opera at the Mobile Monday NY conference

Lasts night I attended the Mobile Monday conference in New York. After the panel discussions we had about an hour of social networking time served with some food and drinks.