An even better browsing experience awaits you on Tuesday, June 19th

By danigoldman. Friday, 15. June 2007, 16:10:01

Preparations for the new Opera Mini beta, code named ‘Dimension’ are entering the final stretch.

Next Tuesday (June 19th), just 4 days from now, is when we'll release our baby, the new Opera Mini beta, to the world. Browsing the web with Opera Mini is about to become even easier and more enjoyable.

Our developers and QA teams have been working real hard at making Opera Mini the best possible mobile browser. We’re so excited, that we can't stop talking about it. We’ve been talking to journalist, bloggers, select users, and influential web developers (of course under embargo) about Opera Mini. Many of our executives are now on a worldwide press tour, showing off the mini (sic) browser.

We’re extremely proud of what we’ve done in bringing life to the mobile web. No more are you limited to mobile-only (i.e. WAP) websites or required to have a phone with high processing/memory capabilities to browse the real web. We believe that when web developers build websites for it to work on the web, it should work on the ‘Web’ – wherever the web is, including your mobile phone.

We can’t wait till Tuesday – just 4 days!

Soon...Very soon.

Comments

Allow me to be the first to say...

Mini has already given me a new lease on life. Thanks Opera, for all the hard work.

By Furie, # 15. June 2007, 16:20:49

Hello from GREECE! OPERA is number ONE! We waiting the new opera mini dimension!!

By Kotson, # 15. June 2007, 16:25:35

I eagerly wait to see how much further this will disrupt my old habits and interfere with work

By theoddbod, # 15. June 2007, 18:21:33

Congrats.

By the way, I am sure this should be fixed from:

We’re so excited, that we can stop talking about it.

to

We’re so excited, that we can't stop talking about it.

Or I am wrong? ;-)

By DjiXas, # 15. June 2007, 21:00:00

A gr8 WELCOME in advance 2 new DIMENSION in mobile browsing. Till tuesday i just can't control my patience. WHAT 2 DO?

By Subodh_ci, # 15. June 2007, 21:09:26

DJ, you're wrong.

Originally posted by ManneS:

I really can't say.

By Furie, # 15. June 2007, 21:11:15

Wowza!

By tileeater, # 15. June 2007, 22:25:52

Saturday ..........Sunday ..........Monday .......... TUESDAY

By goutam_bnk, # 16. June 2007, 03:30:36

Can we get SPY pics of OM Dimension ? i am posting this from OPERA MINI.

By sranjanm2002, # 16. June 2007, 04:52:18

will we be able to browse and click through arrow cursor ? or still #+3 ?

By sranjanm2002, # 16. June 2007, 04:57:18

would we be able to surf horizontaly and save webpages for offline viewing ?

By sranjanm2002, # 16. June 2007, 05:07:55

will sending scrap in Orkut would be possible ?

By sranjanm2002, # 16. June 2007, 05:15:16

So many references to use.

Originally posted by ManneS:

I really can't say.

By Furie, # 16. June 2007, 07:58:00

I've deduced from the posting times, this is not an accidental flood.

If it is, he'll delete it.

By Furie, # 16. June 2007, 17:05:17

So, its a public beta? What about the misleading blog posts about signing up for beta testing? Any answers????

By ameer1234567890, # 16. June 2007, 17:42:46

Oh! How many times was it? Yes, it was accidental. May be I shouldnt have deleted.

By ameer1234567890, # 16. June 2007, 17:45:44

Was just making sure.

By Furie, # 16. June 2007, 18:10:30

@DjiXas: Thanks for the correction.

@ameer1234567890: We've never said that it will be a closed beta. Go back and look at the announcement on this blog and on the Opera Mini beta page. When you can sign up, you will receive an alert when the beta is ready. Hope that clears things up. Those who signed up for email alerts were first to get the details on the release date -- it wasn't posted here until a couple days later.

By danigoldman, # 17. June 2007, 14:03:11

FYI. I signed up and never got a notice.

By tileeater, # 17. June 2007, 21:52:53

are u using WL mail or aOL?if u r...fin it in your junk mail...

By ctcctcctc, # 18. June 2007, 02:25:27

tileeater, use other email provider. I basically don't know any good or bad as I have my own.

But I am sure, that this one http://operamail.com/ will work ;-)

By DjiXas, # 18. June 2007, 08:15:55

hi. can we know the standard time when it will be released ? e.g. in GMT ? i live in india. whatever the dimension would be just want to say one thing on the eve that opera mini has changed the way of life. i have GPRS so can surf anywhere without needing wifi spot. thanks opera.

By sranjanm2002, # 18. June 2007, 11:18:10

My mail account is and always has been very reliable. Looked in spam, not there. I just didn't get the notice. I don't think it sent.

Signed up again using another reliable account...

By tileeater, # 18. June 2007, 17:45:12

India is waiting for new Dimension!

By soumitram4u, # 18. June 2007, 18:19:42

It's 07.22AM Bangladesh time (+6 GMT) Opera Mini dimension beta still not available.

By bm.riyadh, # 19. June 2007, 01:23:31

I'm presuming that the Opera Mini team is headquartered in... Norway, right? The land of resource inflation from North Sea oil decreasing overall economic competitiveness. They probably will set up launch around 10 am their time, enough to have been in the office long enough to set up their launch party. Since Norway is +2 GMT, if memory serves properly, we're another 8 hours off from launch.

By Inst, # 19. June 2007, 01:43:31

Today 19th june , tuesday , Dimension till not arrived at station. Late running!

By goutam_bnk, # 19. June 2007, 03:01:25

mini 3.34 could not connect with proxy like opera 8.6 using fr*e gprs. Hope this one will do

By allexclusive, # 19. June 2007, 04:07:27

Inst, the main development of Opera Mini takes place in Opera's Sweden office.

By danigoldman, # 19. June 2007, 04:14:38

Ewww, what an embarassingly faux pas. I wish Scandinavian regional enmity was like Far Eastern regional enmity, where everyone is either condescending or hateful of everyone else. That way, I wouldn't be left alone in the wrong, I'd be in the company of a batch of despicable ultranationalists.

By Inst, # 19. June 2007, 04:22:42

Hey, this is a 19th june. Where is the dimension?

By Chu-nx, # 19. June 2007, 05:35:20

??????!

By Chu-nx, # 19. June 2007, 05:42:06

Opera's a Norwegian company, with offices in at least Sweden. Whoops.

By Inst, # 19. June 2007, 05:54:54

tik tak tik tak... still counting. Geez, and still counting.

By notyaniam, # 19. June 2007, 06:55:22

Keep on counting. 1, 2, 3,... Once you reach 100, start again. Repeat this a hundred times and its on ur screen. The magic works. Aaag...

By ameer1234567890, # 19. June 2007, 07:08:25

Assuming that you're not a robot planning to play the 1,2,3... Sound files to 100 within a second, people count an average of 4 numbers a second. So, one round gives you 25 seconds. 2.17 rounds is a minute, there's 1440 minutes in a day, count from 1 to 100 3000 times. Then it'll appear on your screen.

By Inst, # 19. June 2007, 07:29:55

Its 1 pm in india
where is the dimension ?

By vivek_jaikar2000, # 19. June 2007, 07:34:57

Any body see the dimension?