Opera Releases Mini Update - Opera Mini 2.0

[Mike Temporale]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.opera.com/pressreleases/en/2006/05/03/' target='_blank'>http://www.opera.com/pressreleases/en/2006/05/03/</a><br /><br /></div><i>"Opera Software today released Opera Mini 2.0, the new version of the tiny and fast Web browser that runs on almost every mobile phone. With over 2.5 million users since its first release in January 2006, Opera Mini has revolutionized mobile Web browsing. Opera Mini 2.0 further improves the Web surfing experience for any mobile phone user by enabling them to download MP3s, images and other Web content directly to their mobile phone. Additional features include quick and easy mobile shopping, improved design, bookmark speed dials, and more."</i><br /><br />The new version adds a number of new features including: downloading content directly to your phone, new skins, and advanced searching. You can download a copy from the <a href="http://mini.opera.com">Opera Mini website</a> for free. If anyone here gives it a try, please report back and let us know how you like it. 8)

[Bill Harrison]

YAY!!! Finally a smartphone browser that supports downloads of all types! This is what I have needed many times in a pinch!

Thanks!

[guapoharry]

Wow, I'm impressed. 2.0 is much better

I used Mini 1.2 before and it had this annoying issue where websites would come up blank. Over time, I found that by pressing the back button the website could be seen.

There's no such problem in Mini 2.0.

It's funny that I actually looked over the End User License Agreement this time and found this goody:

Privacy in the Opera Mini browser
Opera Mini will keep a record of the user's phone number, make, and model for use with maintaining the history, cache and cookies. This is done for the purposes of debugging, maintenance, optimization of the service, or maintaining the customer relationship. The history, cache and cookie information can be removed using Tools > History > Clear from the menu in Opera Mini. http://www.opera.com/privacy/

The part about keeping my phone number seemed a little overboard until I learned more about what Opera Mini is:

How Opera Mini™ works
Opera Mini™ is a Java-based (J2ME) browser solution where the full Opera browser is running on a remotely located
Opera Mini™ server rather than on the handset itself. The handset only needs to run a small (50-100 KB) Java client
to access the full Web. When a user requests a Web page, it is fetched by the Opera Mini™ server, reformatted with
Opera’s Small-Screen Rendering™ technology, compressed 70-80 percent and sent to the handset. http://www.opera.com/products/mobile/brochures/OperaMini.pdf

Mini is a browser front end, really. Most of the heavy lifting happens on Opera servers. It's kind of like a stripped down Thunderhawk, that's free.

What's ironic is that the new Mini renders some websites better than Opera 8.0, which I paid $29 for. :x

Opera 8.5 is available for PPC, so why not make it available (http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=125366) for Smartphone? :cry:

[OtherBeing]

No ClearType? My eyes.. They bleed..