Originally published January 20 2006
Opera Mini application now available
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
Users can download the Opera Mini internet application to their phones and use it for free. The Opera Mini can be used with less powerful handsets, but the cell phone must be able to download a Java application.
Typically, full Web browsing is reserved for users of smartphones or handsets with powerful processing capabilities.
Opera Mini is designed to improve on the limited Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) surfing available on many phones, allowing users of Java-capable cell phone to surf the Web.
Cell phone users download the Opera Mini Java application, under 100K in size, to their phones.
The small client communicates with servers operated by Opera that strip down the size of Web pages, making them quicker to transfer to the cell phone and rendering them to fit on the small screen of the phone.
Opera is hosting the back-end servers and cell phone customers can download and use the application free of charge, except for the fees related to using the mobile networks.
Using Opera Mini should reduce fees that customers pay their cell phone operators because the system compresses the size of Web sites by 70 percent to 80 percent before sending them to the handset, Sivertsen said.
Sivertsen figures that 700 million phones being used today are capable of downloading Opera Mini.
Opera is also offering Opera Mini to operators and content providers that can offer a branded and customized version to their users.
Once users have the Opera Mini browser on their handsets, the operator or content provider can push content or special promotions to the browsers, for users to see when they launch the browser.
Opera Mini is meant to coexist with Opera Mobile, a full-fledged browser.
Opera Mobile is designed for smartphones and can do anything a browser on a desktop computer can do, Sivertsen said.
Opera Mini, by contrast, can be used on less powerful handsets, and has only limited support for advanced Javascript and other advanced Web site tools.
All content posted on this site is commentary or opinion and is protected under Free Speech. Truth Publishing LLC takes sole responsibility for all content. Truth Publishing sells no hard products and earns no money from the recommendation of products. NaturalNews.com is presented for educational and commentary purposes only and should not be construed as professional advice from any licensed practitioner. Truth Publishing assumes no responsibility for the use or misuse of this material. For the full terms of usage of this material, visit www.NaturalNews.com/terms.shtml