News Opera Mini 4.1 released

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2008/05/14/opera-mini-4-1-released/1

The latest version of the Opera browser for Java-based mobile devices, Opera Mini 4.1, was made available for free yesterday - bringing some new speed and usability.

 

WinMo has a Java plugin which is pretty much standard on most handsets- I for one have Opera mini on my mobile atm. That said, Opera Mobile is a much better product- or at least should be when the next version comes out.

 

Opera mini should work on most symbian based phones. It certainly works on my N95

 

The Freebie is a cut down version mobile is much better - but this is still good news

 

This article is inaccurate...people with Windows Mobile phones can easily use Opera Mini and there is no need to buy Opera Mobile (as Windows Mobile can indeed use a java platform). Also note that Opera does NOT claim to cut load times in half.....it claims that it is 50% faster. Speed and time are not interchangeable units. Something that is 50% FASTER will actually cut TIME by 33%.....not 50%. Example: if it rendered a page at 20k per second before....now it would render at 30k per second (50% faster)...........which means that a 60k page would now take 2 seconds instead of 3.....which isn't cutting your time in half.

 

welcome to the bit-tech forums, Tybalt.

I wonder if Opera is faster than Blazer... hmm I may need to look into this..