Opera Software has announced that a major new beta release of the Opera Mini Browser will be launched next Tuesday, June 19th. The new version, code named Dimension<\/em>, is said to have been rewritten from the ground up and to incorporate at least one revolutionary new feature<\/strong>. You can sign up for the beta at www.operamini.com\/beta<\/a>.<\/p>\n
There’s a contest at my.opera.com\/operamini\/blog\/opera-mini-beta-contest<\/a> to guess what the major new feature of Mini will be. I can think of a lot of things that would revolutionize my mobile browsing like off-line browsing, page zooming ala the iPhone or synchronizing which RSS feed items I’ve read with a desktop application. But none of those are truly revolutionary as other mobile browsers already do the first two and web-based newsreaders like Bloglines keep feeds in sync. Page zooming does involve a dimension <\/strong>change though.<\/p>\n
If you haven’t tried Opera Mini yet, don’t wait until the 19th to get started, point your phones browser at operamini.com<\/a> and download the current version.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Opera Software has announced that a major new beta release of the Opera Mini Browser will be launched next Tuesday, June 19th. The new version, code named Dimension, is said to have been rewritten from the ground up and to incorporate at least one revolutionary new feature. You can sign up for the beta at www.operamini.com\/beta. Opera Mini is already revolutionary. It has completely transformed the mobile browsing experience particularly on mainstream phones and slow networks. Using nothing more than … Continue reading