The next generation in mobile browsing is here and it will blow you away. After teasing us for a couple of days, Opera has finally unveiled Opera Mini 5. According to most metrics Opera Mini is the leading mobile web browser with more than 29 million users.
Opera Mini 5 has undergone a total remake. In fact at first glance it may appear to be a completely different browser. The drab red skin has made way for an intuitive and sleek polished black interface. The new Opera Mini looks a lot like its desktop counterpart with an address bar, search bar and visual (thumbnail) speed dials. However, Opera Mini 5 is not all about cosmetic changes. Undoubtedly the biggest new feature in Opera Mini 5 is tabbed browsing. This was something users have been demanding for a long long time. And Opera has delivered! In fact it is amazing that Opera has managed to squeeze in a fully functional tabbed browser into Java based phones.
Another desktop feature which has been ported to Opera Mini is the Magic Wand. Opera Mini 5 includes a full-fledged password manager for securely saving all your online passwords. And oh yes, if you happen to own a high end touch screen phone, there is some good news for you too. Opera Mini 5 include support for both keypad as well as touchscreen browsing. Irrespective of whether you use a keypad or a touchscreen you would relish the drastically improved navigational features. Support for copy-paste and inline text editing has been added.
In one word Opera Mini 5 is stunning. The interface is sleek and sexy. I love the smooth transition effects and the gentle curves. Tabbed browsing works wonderfully and most importantly it almost feels like a desktop browser. Go ahead and get a taste of the next generation in mobile browsing from opera.com/mini/next.
[Note: This is an beta release and may have performance and stability issues. Also many essentials features like downloads, feeds and Opera Link are not available in this release]
Don’t want to bug you mate but i know atleast two browsers that have tabbed browsing.
Firstly, N900 features a mozilla powered browser with tabbed browsing. But even before that, UCWeb, which i claim to be the fastest J2ME browser, has been dishing out tabs for almost over a year. It can easily handle 7 tabs on the slowest of phones.
As for the other features, N900’s built in browser gives you all those features(password, gestures, visual history)in an extra smoooth package. You should see their video.
Nothing beats opera Mini 5 in it’s looks though….that’s for sure.
Opera itself has had tabs for a long time – in Opera Mobile.
Btw, once again you can’t compare N900 with Opera Mini. N900 is billed as a mobile computer which runs on Maemo 5(Linux). I am aware of Fennec. Once again a fair competitor to Fennec would be Opera Mobile and Safari for iPhone – not Opera Mini. In fact Opera Mini can’t do many tasks Opera Mobile can – like rendering AJAX pages.
Not sure about UCWEB being faster (tests seem to suggest otherwise), but I had tried it and removed it as it screws up rendering of pages badly. If you don’t care about rendering you can stick with Opera Mini 3 which is faster than Opera Mini 4.
Blown Away is an understatement. 🙂
It is also important to remember, before comparing, that Opera Mini connects through a proxy. Many sites, which encourage not-so-legal mobile content downloads are blocked by our overzealous operators.
Plus using a proxy also allows Opera Mini to get page rendering right, since it becomes aware of the image dimensions without loading them.
I have worked on both Opera mini and Ucweb, opera mini has a better and clean view, where as sometimes in ucweb i got rendering error.
I’m a big fan of Opera, especially after the introduction of Opera Unite, glad to experience the opera mini 5 ! 😉 Cheers !
I used UCWeb but i didn’t like its interface neither the rendering was good. In spite of web-pages coming from proxy and inhibition of some content i am pretty much contented with the way Opera Mini is performing.
Another point is Mini being light weight. I have HTC P3400i and have tried both Opera Mobile and Skyfire. Both work pretty fine but the moment i open another tab, Memory low was the warning, but not in Mini.
I contend that opera has indeed brought out a fine piece.
read more @ http://rahulprasad.com/blog/opera-mini-5-0-beta-released/
opera mobile needs to be free aswell.Its gud.came preinstalled in my N72.
I need to install opera mini as soon as possible. 🙂
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I have been using opera mini from years i love it just try it and you guys will love it too
I miss my Opera Mini days when I used to read my feeds in lecturers.
Don’t have a data plan on my cell anymore. BTW I don’t read feeds anymore. I am all into development these days.
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So, what are you developing?
Getting the hang of PHP
I am developing CMS based sites by using WordPress and some plugins for WordPress and bbPress
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Opera mini is a good browser when we use mobile phone for browsing. I have use mini opera when I am browsing from my mobile as compared with the default browser given in the mobile I would definitely go for opera mini. I like mini opera because it’s very fast and moreover it gives features of pointer which can move like we are using mouse. Opera in system is not so good as compared with Firefox. So in system I would like to go for Firefox and in mobile mini opera.
i feel that UCWEB is faster and easier to use.
opera is useful for the people that used to PC browser and cannot get used to the small screen in cell.
Can’t wait to purchase the Nokia E63 so I can go back to working with Opera Mini. It’s one of the best. Unfortunately ,my current Nokia 6080 screams “Out Of Memory” each time I try to run it thus I’ve deleted it for good.
using it for few years and this is just awesome..i suggest you to use it too
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nice site . And i agreed with u. Dude thankx new information
Well right now it doesn’t much impress me since I can go full screen with Opera and it seems to be a lot quicker at the moment, although once they get this whole thing off the ground it might shoot on past much of the competition. No idea but looks very interesting.