Last week, Opera's hybrid Norwegian/American Phillip (Grønvold) travelled from Silicon Valley to Oslo to show off the T-Mobile G1 Android device with Opera Mini. That caught the attention of Anders Brenna, the editor at Digi.no, a leading IT news outlet in Norway. Check out Phillip's demo of Opera Mini on the Android. You'll see a lightning fast and user-friendly competitor to the other browser on the Android platform.
This week the little big Opera Mini steals the spotlight. An interesting read with global coverage is out on Reuters — read the article.
This story addresses a study that claims American youth trail in Internet use. It uses Opera's Mobile Browsing report to contradict the statement that "mobile phones are used for Internet access by a very small percentage of users, with the exception of the United Kingdom." The mobile browsing report has again become a source of information for those seeking real browsing data.
Good news, everyone! Today we have released the latest version of Opera Mini 4.2. Since the launch of the beta, speed trials have shown that this version gives more than 30% speed improvements for users in the US, due to addition of a new Opera Mini server park in ther United States.
This release also marks Opera Mini’s official availability on the latest version of the Android mobile platform. Opera Mini is now the first Web browser alternative on Android. A technical preview of Opera Mini was previously released for an earlier version of Android in April 2008. Users of Android-powered mobile phones, such as the T-Mobile G1, can now download a beta version of Opera Mini 4.2 and experience a faster and less costly way to browse the full Internet.
To celebrate we feel a visual power demonstration is needed. Enjoy our latest video we've made to launch the world's fastest browser for your mobile phone:
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Opera Mini comics:
An e-card is an electronic post card. These new Opera Mini comics demonstrates a few "real life" scenarios where Opera Mini comes in handy. Sending an e-card from My Opera is very easy. Head over to the photo albums, choose a cartoon you like and click "Send as e-card". We suggest you try the new Opera Mini frame for these e-cards.
We've also localized the cartoons into the following languages:
The mobile Web as a global phenomenon. The ubiquity of the mobile phone makes it the ideal platform for many people to access the Web. The demand is there. As we saw in our previous report on Africa, many countries experienced triple-digit or even quadruple-digit usage growth in 2008.
Here are some highlights from this month's State of the Mobile Web report:
Usage, page views and data transfers rose again this month; 21 million users viewed 5 billion pages in October 2008.
Egypt, which debuted last month by knocking Germany off the list, continues to take the top 10 by storm, surging ahead of both the United Kingdom and Poland in terms of unique users of Opera Mini.
This month's geographic focus is on Southeast Asia, where we see Google as the dominant player in the search engine space and Friendster as the premier social-networking site, with hi5 coming in second. Nokia is dominant in the region, with brands like Sony Ericsson and Huawei competing for a distant second place.
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