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Today, Opera Software announced the availability of Opera Mini 4.1, the newest version of the award-winning browser that works on nearly every mobile phone. Opera Mini 4.1 revolutionizes the way people get the Web on their Mobile phone. People can now enjoy instant access to websites from any location and any device. Opera Mini is freely available from http://www.operamini.com.Opera Mini 4.1 introduces the following new features:

- Opera Mini 4.1 is up to 50% faster than Opera Mini 4.0

- The new Opera Mini will automatically suggest URL completions, making address input easy and intuitive

- Web pages can be saved for later off-line viewing

- Opera Mini 4.1 gives you quick access to the word or phrase you want in Web pages

- Images, ringtones and other content can be downloaded without leaving Opera Mini.

“More than 44 million people from all over the world have discovered and fallen in love with Opera Mini,” says Jon von Tetzchner, CEO, Opera. “Those people are not just the users of Opera Mini, they are also the co-creators and our most valued critics of the product. We have actively talked to our community members in order to build the best Web browser for mobile phones. I strongly believe that the newest version of Opera Mini will be received with much excitement.”

“Opera Mini 4.1 is just great,” says Ramunas Monkevicius, a student from Lithuania. “I use it at school to find information on Wikipedia, on the bus to read up on the latest news, and even in bed, for blogging. Opera Mini enables me to be up to date with current events from all over the world. My favorite new feature of Opera Mini 4.1 is the ability to save websites for later reading, it really helps me at school. I can just save my Wikipedia pages and access them whenever I need to. My history grades improved drastically, thanks to Opera Mini”.

View the guided tour of Opera Mini 4.1 http://www.operamini.com/tour/

Much to the dismay of bugs lurking within pages of the World Wide Web, Opera Software today unmercifully unleashed the anticipated Opera Dragonfly. True to Opera’s embodiment of One Web, the developer tools with Opera Dragonfly will debug Web pages, Widgets and Web applications on any device. Opera Dragonfly is firstly available in Opera 9.5 beta 2. Today’s alpha release will upgrade automatically and includes a JavaScript Debugger, DOM and CSS Inspectors, Error Console and Command Line. To test Opera Dragonfly, download Opera 9.5 beta 2 from http://www.opera.com/download, launch the browser and go to Tools/Advanced/Developer Tools.”At Opera we’ve always believed there should only be One Web, accessible from any device. This One Web must be built on open Web standards, enabling the same degree of innovation to happen on mobile and devices as on desktop,” says Christen Krogh, Chief Development Officer, Opera Software. “With Opera Dragonfly we take an important step toward our vision by providing Web developers with the tools to unify both development and experiences across devices.”

Features in Opera Dragonfly alpha include:

Remote debug

Debug pages whether they are on your computer or a separate, supported device. Opera Dragonfly can remotely connect to computers and devices running a supported version of Opera.

Auto update

Opera Dragonfly is a new breed of hybrid application: part desktop application, part Web application. It resides in local persistent storage without any server-side processing, yet instantly updates when a new version is released - just like your favorite Web sites.

Open and free

Opera Dragonfly’s source code is released under the BSD license, making the code itself available for inspection and reuse.

DOM Inspector

View source isn’t much use if you use DOM Scripting to alter the DOM. Opera Dragonfly allows you to inspect the updated DOM and all its properties. Support for editing the DOM will follow.

CSS Inspector

Check out what CSS rules apply to which element, and what rules are inherited or set by browser defaults. Overridden rules are highlighted so you can see what styles are or aren’t applied. Support for editing CSS rules will follow.

JavaScript Debugger

Opera Dragonfly’s full-featured JavaScript debugger enhances user ability to build sophisticated Ajax applications. Step through your code line by line, setting break points along the way. This allows you to make sure your application and scripts are acting as you designed them.

Error Console and Command Line

An advanced error console allows you to see, filter and log any errors in your scripts, pointing to the exact position the error occurred. Use this in combination with the other tools to hunt down and fix your site’s bugs.

Be heard

Opera Dragonfly is still in the early stages of development. In order to make Opera Dragonfly fit the needs of Web designers and developers, we invite your feedback. Learn more and share your thoughts at: http://www.opera.com/dragonfly/.

Opera Software today announced that the globally acclaimed Opera Mini browser for mobile phones is available for the Android platform. Today’s technical preview release is available at labs.opera.com, inviting the Android development community to test the fresh build and share feedback with Opera for the forthcoming beta. Opera Mini for Android makes the company’s fast-performing and device-adapting Web experience available to any range of handset built on Android.Opera is renowned for its cross-platform portability and today’s release embraces the Android platform in Opera’s commitment to making the best Internet experience available on any device.

“Today we’re glad to deliver our mass-market mobile browser to the Android development groups,” says Jon von Tetzchner, CEO, Opera Software. “Opera Mini will be able to empower users of Android-based handsets with access to all of their favorite Web sites with popular features for smooth effects and scalable, tailored viewing.”

Opera Mini, boasting more than 40 million users worldwide across mobile platforms, enables Web browsing from low-to-high resource handsets by compressing data at a remote server before sending content to the phone applet for rendering. With a simple, user-friendly interface, Opera Mini powers innovative features for real, desktop-like Web browsing from a mobile phone, including Small Screen Rendering, Zoom, synced bookmarks and integrated Google search. With Opera Mini optimized for Android, open handset developers can include a tried and tested, full Internet experience.

For more information or to download the Opera Mini for Android technical preview, visit: http://labs.opera.com/.

Opera made Google(TM) the default search engine in Opera’s mobile Web browsers. Now anyone using Opera Mobile or Opera Mini can access Google’s powerful mobile search directly from the browser start page, meaning they’ll be able to quickly and easily get the information they need, whenever and wherever they need it.Opera Mini’s ongoing success is proof of the mobile Web’s adoption by mainstream consumers. Because Opera Mini targets feature phones that have traditionally possessed limited browsing capabilities, millions of people have made the personal choice to download and install Opera Mini to their phones. These consumers tend to use the mobile Web more frequently and actively than consumers with more static, less dynamic mobile Web browsers. Every month, Opera Mini users browse more than 1.7 billion pages, with much of that traffic generated through the search function in the browser.

Google has been the default search option on Opera’s desktop browser for seven years. This new mobile collaboration covers all global territories except Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States, and includes all of Opera’s standard mobile Web browsers.

“Google and Opera have established a valuable relationship over the years and we look forward to continued collaboration on mobile products,” said Jon von Tetzchner, CEO, Opera. “With 2008 poised to be the year the mobile Web goes mainstream, Google and Opera are extending this collaboration to give our users immediate access to the quality and convenience of Google’s search results. We’re excited to extend this productive relationship and we hope that the nearly 100 million people using our mobile products will agree.”

Opera Mini is available completely free from http://www.operamini.com/. Opera Mobile is also available from http://www.opera.com/ in a free trial on select platforms. Google will appear as the default search engine for new and current users of Opera Mini as of March 1, 2008.

The Strategy Analytics User Experience Team has released its latest report, “Wireless Device Laboratory: 5-Star Safari Leads Mobile Browsing Experience.” The User Experience team observed and captured the pain points of 50 mobile users who were asked to undertake seven key tasks with the Safari, Internet Explorer, Opera and Mini-map browsers, both in the UK and US.Paul Brown, a Senior Analyst in the User Experience Team noted “Safari received 5-star ratings for five out of the seven attributes rated by participants, including Ease of Accessing the browser, Ease of Entering a Website Address, Ease of Web Page Navigation, Saving a Bookmark and Ease of Returning to Previous Pages.”

David Kerr, Vice President of the Global Wireless Practice, added “Internet Explorer matched Safari in terms of ease of web access and ease of saving a page as a bookmark but could not equal Safari in terms of entering website addresses and overall page navigation.”

Other key findings include:

* Over half of the participants rated Safari as providing the best mobile experience.

* Participants using the Internet Explorer-equipped HTC Touch had difficulty in actually entering an address using the virtual keyboard and stylus;

* Participants using the Mini-Map back navigation feature, as implemented on the Nokia N95, found it useful for familiar sites but less beneficial for new or unfamiliar sites;

* Adding a bookmark was confusing on the Opera Mobile browser as implemented on the T-Mobile Dash.

Opera Software today announced that its Opera Mini browser is now available on phones enabled with Qualcomm’s BREW platform. Built on Opera’s technology, Opera Mini has already been embraced by more than 27 million cumulative users who view more than one billion Web pages every month.Opera Mini provides an excellent user experience by leveraging Opera’s Small Screen Rendering (SSR) technology to reformat the Web page to fit inside the screen width. In addition, Opera’s new “Desktop Mode” gives users a wider view of the page, displaying Web pages exactly as they appear on the PC. Innovative enhancements such as the Opera Zoom functionality allow users to dive into the page, and dynamically navigate the content, resulting in a more intuitive browsing experience.

With Opera Mini, now available on BREW devices, operators and handset manufacturers will be able to leverage Opera Software’s technology to quickly drive feature-rich BREW handsets to the mass market and enable users to access their favorite Web sites from the convenience of their mobile device.

For operators, a turnkey white-labeled Opera Mini solution increases brand loyalty among millions of users worldwide. The leading Indian telecom operator, Tata Teleservices Ltd, was one of the first to realize the advantages of Opera Mini for their BREW handsets.

“We are excited to provide Opera with the ability to extend the offering onto BREW-enabled devices,” said Bob Briggs, senior vice president and general manager of BREW for Qualcomm Internet Services. “Opera Mini represents another way that customers can have an enhanced user experience with high speed and content rich Web sites right from their BREW phones.”

“Opera consistently aims to improve the quality and performance of mobile Web browsing. By making Opera Mini available on Qualcomm’s BREW platform, we are able to offer a fast and cost efficient Web experience to millions of mobile phone users,” said Jon von Tetzchner, CEO for Opera Software. “The rapid growth of Opera Mini solidifies Opera’s leadership position in the mobile Web browsing space and is further proof of the value that leading operators, such as TATA Teleservices, are finding in our solutions.”

“By offering Opera Mini on BREW-enabled handsets, we are able to bring innovative data offerings to our users. Opera has once again proven itself as the pioneer in providing rich and full access to the Web,” says Pankaj Sethi, President, VAS & Enterprise Marketing, Tata Teleservices Ltd.

Opera Mini provides:

- Access: Opera Mini allows users to visit popular Web sites for social networking, news, search engines and e-mail from their BREW phones.

- Speed: Like other Opera browsers, Opera Mini is built for speed and has been clocked at more than double the speed of competing mobile browsers, ensuring a positive Web browsing experience.

- Cost reduction: Opera Mini uses a remote proxy server to pre-process Web pages before sending them to mobile phones. Web content is compressed to reduce the size of data transfers, enabling lower bandwidth costs for operators and overall reduction in data costs for end users.

- Local language support: Opera Mini is available in over 50 languages.

Opera, the only company that puts the Web on any device, today released Opera Link. Wherever you are, whatever Opera browser you use, or whichever device you use Opera on, you can instantly access your bookmarks, Speed Dial, and personal bar. Say goodbye to the tedious hassle of entering text in your mobile phone to visit your top sites and say hello to a new level of convenience from device to device.The first service to leverage the breadth of Opera’s industry-leading product portfolio, Opera Link forms a key cornerstone of two beta products released today. Opera Link is supported in the high-performance Opera 9.5 beta and the newest beta of Opera Mini 4, the world’s most popular mobile Web browser. There is also a Web interface for users of any browser at http://my.opera.com. The Opera Web browser for PC/Mac/Linux and Opera Mini are available completely free for anyone to use and enjoy.

“We refuse to believe people should compromise their experience when they access the Web from different devices,” said Jon von Tetzchner, CEO, Opera. “With Opera Link, we give them a consistent experience uniquely suited to the way they want to use the Web. But as cool as we think Opera Link is now, we are already hard at work making it even more valuable to our users in the future. Opera Link means convergence without compromise.”

Opera Software, the only company that puts the Web on any device, today released the new version of Opera Mobile 8.65 for Windows Mobile, available from www.opera.com/mobile with a free 30-day trial. Following the positive reception and rapid market adoption of Opera Mobile for the Windows Mobile platform, Opera took strides to continue providing Smartphone and Pocket PC users with a superior Web-browsing experience. Today’s release, Opera Mobile 8.65 for Windows Mobile, is the culmination of user feedback and beta testing results to further enhance the Web-browsing experience on Windows Mobile devices with Opera’s winning small-screen performance.The high demand for Opera Mobile on Windows Mobile has further fueled its development at Opera. Major manufacturers, such as Motorola, Samsung, HTC, Asus, Sharp and Toshiba, have licensed and installed Opera Mobile on Windows Mobile devices, while consumers have also independently acquired the Web browser with over three million downloads from the company site.

“The Windows Mobile platform has proved to be a powerful stage for Opera Mobile.” says Jon von Tetzchner, CEO, Opera Software. “With Opera Mobile 8.65, users will improve their online productivity and amplify their level of fun through a superior experience that is unique to Opera and its powerful small-screen Web technologies.”

Opera Mobile 8.65 for Windows Mobile provides Flash support, allows users to send links by e-mail, SMS or MMS, and adds several menu and user interface enhancements such as an integrated search field in the address bar.

New Features for Opera Mobile 8.65

- Support for Macromedia Flash Player 7 for Pocket PC

- FlashLite 2.1

- Text Wrap in Desktop Mode

- Grab and Scroll (only applicable to Pocket PC) - Web search in address bar

- Save image

- Copy text

- Send link as e-mail, SMS, and MMS

- Import bookmarks from Pocket Internet Explorer

- Desktop Mode as default viewing mode

Changelog

To view the full changelog for Opera Mobile 8.65 for Windows Mobile, please visit http://www.opera.com/docs/changelogs/winmobile/865/. Availability Opera Mobile 8.65 for Windows Mobile is available for download at www.opera.com/mobile and comes with a free 30-day trial.

Opera, the only company that puts the Web on any device, today released the new beta of Opera Mini 4, the world’s most popular mobile Web browser. The new beta version of Opera Mini 4 introduces several exclusive optimizations for BlackBerry devices, including a new user interface and menus for a more comfortable Opera Mini look and feel. For BlackBerry users worldwide, or anyone wanting a better, faster and free mobile Web browser, the new Opera Mini 4.0 beta is available from http://www.operamini.com/beta/ .For all users, the new beta adds some often-requested features that improve usability and enjoyment. Opera Mini’s new “Landscape mode” gives you a wider view of the page. A new multi-search Start Page makes searching even easier while on the go. The ability to add your own search engine to the Start Page, a feature pioneered in Opera’s desktop browser, is now available in the latest beta of Opera Mini.

“We want to make Opera Mini available to even more users, so we’ve improved our support for BlackBerry,” said Jon von Tetzchner, CEO of Opera. “Now the world’s most popular mobile Web browser and most popular handhelds can work together. At the same time we recognize the incredible role our community has played in making Opera Mini as popular as it is. We’re proud to offer some of the most requested features in this new beta as a present to you.”

“I’ve been using Opera Mini for about six months now,” said Mik Furie, an Opera Mini user in the United Kingdom. “It started out as a tool to enable quicker Web searches than WAP allowed and has now become part of my everyday life. I use it to keep in touch with friends, write a blog, and keep up to date on the things I’m interested in such as new phones and games.”

The new beta version of Opera Mini 4.0 is now available for free download at http://www.operamini.com/beta/ .

Opera Software today announced that T-Mobile is bringing a customized version of the My Opera Community to its web’n'walk users. By integrating the community into their product offering, T-Mobile allows its customers to take advantage of popular My Opera features such as photoblogging, photo albums and more, all from the convenience of their web’n'walk powered phones.T-Mobile’s web’n'walk offering uses a customized version of Opera Mini that allows users to surf the Web from their mobile phones. Once online with Opera Mini, web’n'walk customers can access all of My Opera’s features, as well as the exclusive T-Mobile group page and dedicated forums for web’n'walk users. My Opera gives T-Mobile users 300 MB of storage space on their personal pages, and once registered, users will automatically be added to the T-Mobile group.

“T-Mobile is Opera’s pioneering customer in terms of integrating My Opera with their product,” says Jon von Tetzchner, CEO for Opera Software. “My Opera presents a unique solution to operators such as T-Mobile, as it allows them to offer their customers attractive features such as photoblogging. This not only adds functionality to the web’n'walk offering, but also drives data traffic for T-Mobile.”

Web’n'walk is T-Mobile’s initiative to differentiate itself as the leading mobile Internet provider and grow data services into a mass market. T-Mobile was the first operator to pre-install customized Opera Mini browsers on selected handsets.

My Opera for T-Mobile features:

- Mobile Photoblogging directly from your web’n'walk Opera Mini browser

- Dedicated T-mobile forums in the community - Photo sharing of blogs and photo albums between my.opera.com and T-mobile users

- 300MB of storage

- T-Mobile group page that automatically includes all registered web’n'walk users

See it live

T-Mobile will be demoing the My Opera Community for its web’n'walk offering during CeBIT, March 15 - 21, 2007, in Hannover, Germany.

Opera Software today announced plans to upgrade mobile Web browsing by developing Opera 9 for mobile phones in all major platforms. Opera 9 has enriched Web use on the PC with new technologies, and now the leading browser innovator will deliver the same groundbreaking functionality to mobile phones. The upcoming Opera Mobile edition includes the latest in PC browsing features such as Widgets and Intelligent Zoom.Opera 9 on mobile phones will add completely new dimensions to navigation. Users can seamlessly alternate between viewing modes to get a birds-eye perspective or dive into the content they want. Users have the choice to see an overview of a Web page or adapting the page to the width of the screen. As first seen with the Opera browser for Wii, Intelligent Zoom allows users to then zoom in directly to a selected area.

Widgets will also debut on mobile phones with the upcoming release of Opera Mobile. These small Web applications running outside of the browser allow users, manufacturers and operators to create and personalize services derived from Web content such as weather and traffic information, news and e-mail. Widgets offer Web applications that are instantly accessible on the phone without having to launch the Web browser, presenting dynamic and engaging content directly to users.

“We are impressed with the constantly evolving experience of browsing the Web,” says Jon von Tetzchner, CEO, Opera Software. “Bringing Opera 9 to mobile phones will present new capabilities in mobile Web services that will be exciting to see defined.”

Opera’s JavaScript and rendering engines are built for speed while enabling dynamic AJAX-based applications. Driving standards compliance, Opera Mobile has full DOM support and can smoothly run advanced Web applications on mobile phones. Opera Mobile is currently shipped on more than 50 million phones from major manufacturers such as Motorola, Nokia, Samsung and Sony Ericsson.

Opera Mobile Features to include:

Intelligent Zoom: Zoom in directly to a selected area and continue scrolling for a closer view.

Grab and scroll: Touch and direct the page up or down on touch-screen devices.

Multiple Windows/Tabbed browsing: Use multiple windows for multi-task browsing.

Opera Widgets: Small Web applications that users can easily access without having to open the Web browser.

Web-address input auto-completion: Reduce input time with an index of address completions.

Password manager: The password manager remembers your usernames and passwords so you don’t have to.

Download manager: View download progress and access all your downloads from one simple transfer manager window.

Pop-up blocker: Control whether to block all pop-ups, or open only the ones that you have requested.

Bookmarks and History: Keep quick access to your favorites and get back to your last viewed sites.

Send link as e-mail, SMS, MMS: Send links to e-mail or as messages directly from the browser

Hot on the heels of a new partnership with Nintendo to offer the Opera Web browser for the Wii game console, Opera has announced plans to put its browser on Samsung phones.

For a browser that has a small footprint, Opera Mobile packs a lot of features, including two rendering modes (”Fit To Screen” and “Desktop Display”); small buttons and scrollbars that leave space for a Web site’s content; and a customizable homepage that has a built-in search bar plus a list of the user’s 10 favorite Web sites.

But that’s just the start. Opera Mobile offers keypad shortcuts that users can customize; an autocomplete function for URLs; smooth scrolling; and the unique ability to open as many as four windows at once, jumping between them in the same way that users of Opera’s desktop browser can switch between open tabs. Each window can have its own display settings, including custom zoom.

Small Screens

But the best-known feature in Opera Mobile is Small Screen Rendering, in which a full-sized Web page is sliced up and pared down to fit in a phone’s tiny window. The feature is not unique to Opera, but it’s a feature that Opera is known for.

“There’s debate as to whether reformatting approaches is a good approach or a bad approach,” said Avi Greengart, a handset expert with research firm Current Analysis. “It’s sort of a love it or hate kind of thing. But in terms of reformatting, Opera does it as well as anyone,” he said.

Opera Mobile also filters content through Opera’s servers, which compress the content’s behind-the-scenes code before sending it to a user’s handset. The compression leads to faster browsing and lower monthly bills for customers whose phone companies charge them by the amount of bandwidth they use.

Mobile v. Mini

Opera Mobile is one of two Opera browsers for cell phones. The second, Opera Mini, is a Java-based browser for cell phones that don’t come with a browser preinstalled.

Opera Mini itself is no pared-down piece of software. It lets users upload photos from their cell phones directly to their blogs or social-networking sites like MySpace and Flickr. A built-in RSS tool lets users gather and read news on the go, and secure connections make banking, buying, and using e-mail much safer.

As with all things Opera, there’s more, of course. The Mini offers smooth scrolling, bookmarks, skins to let users customize its look, and a built-in multisearch feature that lets users send a query to Google, Google News, the BBC, Technorati (a blog search engine), Dictionary.com, Weather Underground, and half a dozen other sites, ensuring Opera a top slot in the mobile browser market for months — or even years — to come.