A new version of one of my favorite mobile applications, Opera Mini has been released, adding several new features:
New features in Opera Mini 2.0 include:
- Content download: Download images, MP3s, etc. directly to the phone.
- New skins: Make Opera Mini your own by selecting from several new and bold skins to suit your mood.
- Multisearch: Opera Mini offers advanced searching functionality by allowing users to select extra search engines for the home page.
- Speed dial: Bookmarks displayed on the home page are assigned a shortcut key combination, giving users faster and easier access to their
favorite sites.- Visual navigation: Quick and smooth horizontal panning when browsing backwards or forwards.
The content download, along with a browser-to-SMS m-commerce feature, should be pretty huge. I’ve talked before about how Opera licenses Mini to allow companies to customize it and create de facto mobile applications — add a mobile content portal to the list of possibilities.
The browsing experience with Opera Mini was already pretty great, and the content download ability is a significant improvement, and the other new features add some nice usability touches. Stroll on over to http://mini.opera.com/ from either your desktop or mobile to download it and get going.
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Carlo - I would say this is a much better browser than the default one you find in Moto phones. I downloaded and installed Opera Mini 2.0 this morning and found it to be a faster browsing experience and it simply seemed easier to navigate with.
The only problem I found, is that “Content Download” did not work as expected.
When I clicked to download an mp3 ringtone, Opera Mini displays a message that it will need to launch the internal/default browser to download the file. I didn’t see any settings for configuring file downloads so I ended up posting on their forums.
Were you able to download a file via Opera Mini?
Hopefully it’s just an issue with my phone model - which ‘can’ download files using the internal browser.
Hasta,
Gideon
Hmm, it seems to work okay for me on a Sony Ericsson K750. I wouldn’t be surprised, though, if it’s dependent on a device supporting a particular Java API (see Russell’s post about Java).
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Opera Mini Browser 2.0 Released…
(Via Mobhappy) Opera Software has released version 2.0 of their mobile browsing software Opera Mini."Opera Mini has kick-started real mobile Web browsing by enabling non-smartphone owners to surf the full Internet on their phones, just as they do…