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25 Jan 2006
Opera has unveiled its Mini browser, promising that the application will enable faster surfing on mobile phones.
The application reroutes internet traffic to a special service that compresses the data and strips the website down to fit a mobile screen. This results in faster downloads and lower mobile data usage bills, according to Opera.
The company has made the browser available for free, or for a modest fee if the software is delivered by SMS. However, users are typically charged for the data service on their mobile phones.
Opera Mini supports any Java-enabled handset, allowing "almost every phone" to use the new application and not just high-end smartphones, Opera claimed.
A test version of the browser has been available since late last year, and has since attracted more than one million users, according to company data.
The application can be downloaded directly to a mobile phone from here or delivered via an SMS message from here.
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