Opera Mini Continues Its Path for Global Domination
Opera Mini has become one of the most popular mobile web browsers, with a solid product that keeps getting better over time. Recent usage figures released give an indication of just far and wide Opera Mini has spread globally.
In March 2009, more than 23 million people used Opera Mini to access the web from phones and they viewed more than 8.6 billion pages. The folks at Opera state that those 8.6 billion pages consisted of over 148 million MB of data served. That’s a lot of web content by any standard but if you take into account that Opera Mini pages are compressed on the servers before getting pushed down to the phone, sometimes as much as 90 percent, that content represents the equivalent of 1.4 PB (1,400 terabytes) of data. That’s a lot of honking data and in just one month, too.
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…and I’d like it even better if it didn’t nag me about it wanting to connect me to ‘server4.operamini.com’ when I go online – that should simply be done without issue if I’ve agreed to use the browser – and if it recognized RIM’s SureType in the Address field….
first issue sounds like a phone problem rather then a opera mini problem.
second i think is partly a issue of consistency, and that they can look up addresses in your history and bookmarks.
Your picture shows it running on a storm however the storm is not supported on their web site? Are you using a beta? Any idea when it will come out officially for the storm?
No, that picture came from Opera so we’ll see what that means I guess.
I want a tabbed browser on my phone, does anybody make one? I think this is even more important on a mobile device where it becomes annoying waiting for a previous page to reload. Plus you can have other pages loading while reading the present one.
John…
You didn’t mention what phone you use…if it’s WinMo, then Opera Mobile handles multiple pages. And Pocket Plus by SPB gives IE tabbed capabilities. Haven’t used Opera Mini.
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I’m using a Nokia E90 Communicator. I think I may have found the answer – it’s called UCWEB (www.ucweb.com). It’s free and it allows up to 3 tabs, apparently. I’ve downloaded it and will try it later.