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Tuesday, December 20, 2005
Opera Mini is released, quietly
The article claims that Opera Mini is now available for worldwide use, and can be downloaded from Opera's site. The site still indicates limited use though, so I haven't been able to verify that it's actually true.
What might work against Opera is that they at the same time sell Opera Mobile to phone manufacturers. What will they think of Opera when Opera Mini is given away for free, that partly takes away the need for an advanced integrated browser? I hope they've thought that through.
Opera indicates 700M phones have Java support enough to run Opera Mini. I think that's a bit over-exaggerated based on the latest market figures and the fragmentation of Java functionality in phones, but in any case there are lots of Java phones out there.
Opera quietly enabled the download of Opera Mini to be able to prepare for the increased traffic on its servers before the official launch next month (January).
Opera Quietly Ships Mini Browser - Yahoo! News
What might work against Opera is that they at the same time sell Opera Mobile to phone manufacturers. What will they think of Opera when Opera Mini is given away for free, that partly takes away the need for an advanced integrated browser? I hope they've thought that through.
Opera indicates 700M phones have Java support enough to run Opera Mini. I think that's a bit over-exaggerated based on the latest market figures and the fragmentation of Java functionality in phones, but in any case there are lots of Java phones out there.
Opera quietly enabled the download of Opera Mini to be able to prepare for the increased traffic on its servers before the official launch next month (January).
Opera Quietly Ships Mini Browser - Yahoo! News
