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Thursday, March 09, 2006
How Opera will get revenue from Opera Mini
Now it starts to show: In this case Opera hosts the proxy/gateway for T-Mobile and T-Mobile bundles Opera Mini with a given range of phones. Whether T-Mobile pays for the hosting (which I'm sure they do) and/or the branded Opera Mini's (which I guess they also do) it doesn't say. In any case T-Mobile pays Opera for this.
If operators prefer this model there's less need for embedded web browsers in featurephones. There's still the issue that you can't download files via Opera Mini, but that's likely to be solved for phones that support file access via Java. There's also the issue of showing complex web pages in a PC-like way on high resolution displays. Opera Mini always shows web page data as a vertical row of text and pictures.
CeBIT: T-Mobile First to Launch Branded Opera Mini - Yahoo! News
If operators prefer this model there's less need for embedded web browsers in featurephones. There's still the issue that you can't download files via Opera Mini, but that's likely to be solved for phones that support file access via Java. There's also the issue of showing complex web pages in a PC-like way on high resolution displays. Opera Mini always shows web page data as a vertical row of text and pictures.
CeBIT: T-Mobile First to Launch Branded Opera Mini - Yahoo! News
