By Marianne.
Thursday, 30. November 2006, 10:32:19
Hi all!
Sorry for the inconvenience with Opera Mini 3.0 not working. Hopefully we've managed to improve it now, so please go to mini.opera.com and download it again!

The build number should be 3.0.6358 (menu -> tools -> help -> about)
Please let us know if it works (or not)!
By Marianne.
Tuesday, 28. November 2006, 09:04:01
Hi all!
The moment we've all been waiting for is finally here: Opera Mini 3.0 is hereby available for download on
operamini.com with your WAP browser!

If you've tried the beta, you won't get too many surprises, I guess.
To sum up the features of Opera Mini 3.0:
- Easy photo sharing (Advanced version only)
- RSS Feed Reader
- Secure connections (Advanced version only)
- Content folding (Advanced version only)
- Faster surfing (Advanced version only)
- + all the great features of earlier versions!
So, dig in and enjoy!
Press release
By Marianne.
Wednesday, 22. November 2006, 09:58:11
Great news! We have prepared a second beta of Opera Mini for you to test!

The build number is 3.0.6167, and it can be found at
http://beta.mini.opera.comRegarding bookmarks you already added in the first beta, they should be kept. It depends on your phone. But, if you want to take advantage of our new, cool photo blogging feature, you should not upgrade, but delete the old version, and install beta2.
This time, the beta is available in many languages as well. Check it out, to see if your language is there!

Info about Opera Mini Beta at
http://www.opera.com/products/mobile/operamini/beta/
- Replaced temporary camera bookmark with Photoblog bookmark on start page.
- Progress bar repaint issue fixed during "processing..." state.
- Allow the user to press fire to proceed on the initial pages where OK is the only available command.
- New upgrade functionality added.
- Initial focus in select lists should now be correct.
- Softkey label bugfix for stylus based devices.
- Added more headline indentation for Nokias with height of 416 pixels (e.g. N80).
- Corrected the byte counters to include overhead from secure protocol, network test, etc.
- Remove images that are 1x1 or smaller(!).
- Remove empty links from web pages.
- Added three new request headers, X-OperaMini-Phone, X-OperaMini-Phone-UA and X-OperaMini-Features
- Opera Mini can now start on Sony Ericsson P900 again.
- Feed poll intervals are now dynamic (poll more/less "popular" feeds more/less).
- If title is missing, add feed url as title (with "http://www." removed).
- Off-by-one bug causing last line of folds to not be indented fixed.
- Fixed a regression causing the line break code to not consider the scoll bar.
- Improved content folding header detection.
- Do not fold the feed page.
- Empty item in BlackBerry popup menu removed.
- Better handling of parenthesis in content folding code.
- Fixed a Nokia 6600 crash that occured when drawing transparent graphics (shortcut overview).
- Disabled camera for Nokia E60 and E61.
- Disabled camera support on Nokia 6280 running firmware 3.x
- Accept stylus click on entire row of toggle fold link.
- Scrollbar is now wider also on devices with stylus but without dragging support (if such a device exists).
- Fixed problem with progressbar going to zero between trascoding and loading.
- "Progress" isn't shown for server-internal URL:s.
- Do interprocedural value range propagation. lolz
- Fixes for samsung compability.
- Check onclick properites set from DOM.
- Made button tag work.
- Made button tags out of WML links (this avoids the mandatory server roundtrip for WML forms).
- Modified canvas workaround enabling on Sony Ericsson phones
- No dots in progress when creating preview.
- Link text larger than the screen can now be read.
- Uploads > 64kb over socket connection now works.
- Fixed a bug where #,3 and #,# wouldn't work after the shortcut preview was displayed.
- Fixed bug with network tests on non-samsung starts with test 2/x instad of 1/x.
- Fixed small bug with network test progress starting at 50% on non samsungs
- The network test now finishes directly when finding an working socket connection.
- Always show the feeds favicons when viewing feeds (even when the client wants to hide images).
- Window is now repainted when opening feed fold, even in fullscreen mode.
- Fix for the osnews articles getting folded.
- Experimental rtsp-support added.
- Filtering of indentical feeds with different feed standards (RSS/atom).
Happy surfing!
By Marianne.
Monday, 20. November 2006, 22:53:56
So far, we've doing really good at award shows, and we love it!
A quick list of awards won so far:
- 30th of November 2005: Guldmobilen "Årets program för mobiltelefoner" (this year's program for mobile phones) - Stockholm, Sweden
- 1st of September 2006: Digital Lifestyle Award 2006, Germany
- 26th of October 2006: Guldmobilen "Årets program för mobiltelefoner" (this year's program for mobile phones) - Stockholm, Sweden
- 20th of November 2006: Usability award (Rosingprisen) handed out by the Norwegian Computer Association (Den Norske Dataforening) - Oslo, Norway
Who knows what the future will bring? This is going really well!

For more on our awards, see
our photo blog
By Marianne.
Wednesday, 1. November 2006, 16:49:55
This is your chance to make Opera Mini even better and try out brand new features. During a limited time, on a first-come-first-served basis, we offer you the chance of trying out a preview of Opera Mini 3.0.
Highlights of Opera Mini 3.0 Beta
- Secure browsing (advanced version)
- Feed (RSS) preview and aggregation
- Photo upload
- Content folding: automatic folding of long lists of links
DownloadTo download Opera Mini 3.0 Beta, enter beta.mini.opera.com in the WAP browser on your phone.
FeedbackWe want your feedback! Either send a bug report, or use the Opera Mini forum.
Does photo upload work on your phone?
Feed (RSS) compability with your favorite feeds.
Does content folding work well on the sites you regularly visit?
Please make sure you tell us which phone model you use when you give us feedback.
Note
- The beta installs alongside the regular Opera Mini, so bookmarks, feeds and settings will be kept separate.
- Beta releases contain known bugs, including security issues. Don't use this for sensitive data.
- Opera Mini 3.0 Beta will stop working as soon as the official version is out.
Enjoy!!!
By Marianne.
Monday, 30. October 2006, 10:14:22
Last year we won a price in Sweden (at Mobilgalan) for the best program for mobile phones. This year we also won it, and that was a blast! Let's go for the 2007 award as well!
Getjar has also chosen Opera Mini as the "Product of the year"!
This is looking good!
By Marianne.
Thursday, 31. August 2006, 10:35:48
July 4th - build 2.0.4509:We have now fixed the problem with BlackBerry not able to download Opera Mini.
Those of you NOT with BlackBerry device, don't have to upgrade Opera Mini.
June 30th - build 2.0.4459:We've just released a new, minor update of Opera Mini 2.0. Get it at
http://mini.opera.comSome of the fixes are specifically targeted at:
- Sony Ericsson T610-series
- Sony Ericsson P910
- BenQ SXG75 & EF81
- Palm Treo 650
- Devices with stylus input
- All Siemens phones