Have you ever used your mobile phone to surf the web? Web browsing on mobile phones has been made better and easier since the launch of the Opera Mini web browser in 2006 for the many users who use it. Opera Mini is a lightweight browser which in my honest opinion stands above and beyond any of the competition. One thing is for sure, once you get a taste of this freely downloadable application you will never go back to using your phone’s built in browser.
Opera Mini allows you to access your favorite websites by sending a smaller size version of every page to your phone, allowing fast browsing with little to no compromise regarding the display. This makes it easy to browse the web even if you don’t have a fast G3 mobile phone or connection, and have to use GPRS.
Opera Mini 4 beta has recently been launched, and it is truly amazing. It is exactly how a mobile phone web browser should be - and it’s still in beta development.
The previous version of Opera Mini made website content fit to your mobile phone’s screen. Usually breaking the design intended to be viewed on computer screens by displaying text and images in a linear manner.
Now, “fit to screen” remains an option for users of the new beta version, however websites load by default almost exactly as they appear on your home computer’s screen. Of course, that makes everything extremely small - but users can place a rectangular selection tool over any part of the website they need a closer look at and Opera Mini instantly zooms in on it. Check out all the new features at their website here.
Support for CSS makes it easier for web designers to produce content that will render and display near perfectly, while users can manage RSS subscriptions, and bookmarks of their favorite places on the web.
Do you mobile browse? If you never tried to before, perhaps now is the time!
Click here for more information and how to get your free copy.
More information can also be found on the Wikipedia article for Opera Mini.
