Opera Mini is certainly one of the hottest mobile browsers, if not the hottest, thanks to the server side compression technology it uses to deliver pages at great speed. The July statistics for the browser’s usage have just been made public and we’re stunned to find out that Opera Mini’s users viewed over 10 billion sites this month. Also,...
Opera Mobile 9.7 is finally available, in its beta version and it provides a neat browsing experience, relying on cool features like Opera Turbo, Widgets and Dragonfly. You can download it from here and keep reading after the break for more info about it. Opera Mobile 9.7 uses the Presto 2.2 rendering engine and its most important feature is Opera...
This section on Opera’s home page shows that on June 8 we’re going to see Opera Mobile 9.7 (Turbo) making its long-awaited debut. It’ll bring a faster rendering engine to the browser scene, based on built-in graphics acceleration made possible on modern smartphones. Check out the browser in action in the video below: The most important...
Reuters claims that, according to the web analytics firm StatCounter Opera’s browsers were used more than iPhone’s Safari in May. Turns out that 24.6% of the web pages downloaded last month, were accessed using an Opera Browser, compared to the 22.3% using Safari. Opera has the huge advantage of being pushed forward by numerous carriers...
Opera Mini has known a very important increase in usage, page views and data transfers in March 2009. Last month, over 23 million people used Opera Mini, 12.1% ore than in February 2009 and 157% more than in March 2008. The users viewed over 8.6 billion pages last month and since February, the page views have gone up 17.4%, or 255% in the year over...
Yes, you’ve never heard about Opera Turbo, because it’s not a brand new web browser, or a rival for Fennec, as some of you might think. Turbo is a solution for business customers using Opera Desktop, Opera Mobile and Opera Devices SDK, that provides some extra speed while accessing the web. Opera Turbo is able to compress bandwidth consumption...
Opera Mini 4.2 for Android just went from beta phase to final release, which means that it’ll pack quite a few bug fixes and new features. The free app now allows users to access the phone’s SD card, in order to upload/download and save pages. The new Opera Mini for Android supports video playback, double tap zoom/unzoom and includes a...
Pocketnow recently compared Skyfire to Opera Mobile 9.5 in a mobile browser duel, in order to find out which of them handles web pages faster. All we can say is that Opera got kicked really badly, but more of that in the video below: As far as starting the browser is concerned, Opera is superior, as it loads in just 5 seconds, while Skyfire needs...
