Opera Mini
Opera Mini is a designed primarily for and . Until version 4 it used the platform, requiring the mobile device to run Java ME applications. From version 5 it is also available as a native application for and Opera Mini is offered free of charge, supported mainly through deals with mobile operators to have Opera Mini pre-installed in phones and other sources of revenue such as search advertising deals, licensing and paid bookmarks and Speed Dial placement
Opera Mini was derived from the which has been publicly available since Opera Mini began as a pilot project in 2004. After limited releases in it was officially launched worldwide
Opera Mini requests through servers, which process and compress them before sending them to the mobile phone, speeding up transfer by two to three times and dramatically reducing the amount of data transferred, chargeable on many data plans. The pre-processing increases compatibility with web pages not designed for mobile phones. However, interactive sites which depend upon the device processing JavaScript do not work properly.
In July 2012, it was reported that Opera Mini had 168.8 million users as of March In February Opera reported 300 million unique Opera Mini active users and 150 billion page views served during that month. This represented an increase of million users from September
On 7 November 2007, Opera Mini 4 was released. According to Johan Schön, technical lead of Opera Mini development, the entire code was rewritte Opera Mini 4 includes the ability to view web pages similarly to a desktop based browser by introducing Overview and Zoom functions, and a landscape view setting. In Overview mode, the user can scroll a zoomed-out version of certain web pages Using a built-in the user can zoom into a portion of the page to provide a clearer view; this is similar to the functionality of Opera's Nintendo-based web browsers. This version also includes the ability to synchronise with on a personal computer
Prior to Opera Mini 4, the browser was offered in two editions: Opera Mini Advanced for high-memory phones, and Opera Mini Basic for low-memory MIDP 1 phones Opera Mini 4 replaced Opera Mini Advanced The older Opera Mini 3 Basic was still available for low-memory phones as of
Originally, was the default on Opera MiniOnry and announced a partnership to make Yahoo! search the default instead anno unced that Google would henceforth be the default search engine for Opera Mini and
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