Opera Mini 3.0 released

Posted on | November 29, 2006 | No Comments

norwegian-based Opera Software has released version 3.0 of their free, java-based mobile browser Opera Mini. while preceding versions already outperformed most phones’ preinstalled browser-applications by using server-side compression-proxies and optimizing html not intended for mobile rendering, version 3.0 goes even further with several new features:

• content-folding collapses overly long item-lists, which makes scrolling through long pages much more convenient.
• Opera Mini finally supports secure connections over https – a must-have for sensitive applications (though I doubt many homebanking-services will work on the browser at all ).
• Opera has integrated a basic RSS-reader. while this is a nice idea, it’s not really an alternative to using a single (online-) RSS-reader both mobile and on your workstation – mainly because such practice accomodates great advantages by synching read items (products like Bloglines & Google Reader work really well on Opera, btw)
• Opera Mini now supports photo-blogging to Opera Community-accounts. again, this is nice but most users probably will prefer staying with their flickr-accounts – dedicated photo-apps like Shozu are also more convenient to use.

while features like photo-blogging and RSS-reader might be not really interesting to the poweruser, the addition of content-folding & https-support alone makes version 3.0 a worthy upgrade. to install Opera Mini 3.0, just navigate to www.operamini.com on your phone or PC.

 

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