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Last week at CTIA, Opera Software released three new mobile browsers, Opera Mobile 11<\/a>, Opera Mini 6<\/a> and Opera Mini 4.3<\/a>.\u00a0 I covered<\/a> Opera Mobile 11 a couple of days ago.\u00a0 Here’s my take on the new Opera Mini versions.<\/p>\n
Opera Mini 6 and 4.3 can be downloaded from m.opera.com <\/a>using your phone or from opera.com\/mobile\/download\/<\/a> with a PC. The Android version is also available from the Android Market.<\/p>\n
There are quite a few changes in Opera Mini 6.0 compared with the previous version, Opera Mini 5.1. There’s a full change list on the Opera Mini Blog<\/a>. Here are the ones I consider most significant with notes of how they differ between platforms.<\/p>\n
Share:<\/strong> A new Share menu (image above, right) lets you post the current page’s URL to your Facebook status, Twitter timeline or My Opera blog (In the US, share targets vary by market). I got blank tweets when I tried sharing with Twitter but My Opera and\u00a0 Facebook worked well.\u00a0 The sharing feature is not extensible, you can’t add new services like Identica or Pinboard but we have bookmarklets <\/a>for that.<\/p>\n
But Opera Mini is much more than a great browser on high end phones.\u00a0 It’s a huge success with over 100 million users around the world, many of them using the Java version on basic devices. For millions of people this freeware JavaME app provides their only Internet experience.\u00a0 It even played a role in the Egypt’s revolution last month with over 6 million daily Facebook pageviews\u00a0 being served to Egyptian users though Opera Mini<\/a> during the height of the crisis.<\/p>\n
Click images to view full size Last week at CTIA, Opera Software released three new mobile browsers, Opera Mobile 11, Opera Mini 6 and Opera Mini 4.3.\u00a0 I covered Opera Mobile 11 a couple of days ago.\u00a0 Here’s my take on the new Opera Mini versions. Opera Mini 6 and 4.3 can be downloaded from m.opera.com using your phone or from opera.com\/mobile\/download\/ with a PC. The Android version is also available from the Android Market. Opera Mini 6 is latest … Continue reading