Opera Mobile

Our new baby, Opera Mini, was launched in Norway on August 10 to front TV2's mobile offering. It's a Java-based solution that enables full Internet access on the 700 million Java-based handsets in the world today that cannot run a full browser on the client side. With Opera Mini, you can probably surf the Internet on the phone you have today!

According to Morten Holst at TV2, it has been the most successful mobile offer ever.

Michael Gartenberg of Jupiter Research said:

The folks at Opera have delivered the latest version of their mobile browser, this one called Opera mini. The beauty of this little gem is that it's Java based so it runs on any phone with a Java client and lets you hit any HTML site. It overcomes the small screen of the cell phone using their excellent small screen rendering. I tried it on my Moto RAZR and it worked flawlessly. I was able to hit every HTML site I threw at it including heavy lifting sites like the NY Times. This is a really big breakthrough for the mobile space. If I were a handset vendor and carrier, I'd give a call to these folks ASAP and get this thing on my handsets.

After a fantastic response from content providers, operators, handset manufacturers and end-users worldwide, we are putting all efforts into launching Opera Mini globally, and hopefully before 2005 is over!

Check out some of the news coverage on Opera Mini.

Good times to come!