The beauty of the mobile browser is that it is cross platform. I have covered this browser (for mobiles) in earlier write ups too but I think the most significant advance is the pinch to zoom that has come in Opera Mini.

I am currently upgrading the app from Android Market; nevertheless, I suspect that financial agreement with Google stays. Of course, you could always sync with Opera Mobile (the buliker cousin minus the “pre-fetching” of content), but I prefer Mini because in India, the GPRS sucks. I think Opera has a lot to gain with HTML 5 specifications. This would eliminate Flash completely and possibly deliver the videos in real time reducing the overheads in terms of infrastructure.

Related articles

• Opera Mobile 11, Opera Mini 6 Mobile Browsers Released (ghacks.net)
• Opera Mobile And Mini For Android Updated – Sporting New Optimizations And Tablet-Friendliness (androidpolice.com)
• Opera Mini 6 and Opera Mobile 11 released (and Opera Mini 4.3) (my.opera.com)
• Opera Mini 6 and Opera Mobile 11 Available Today (phonescoop.com)
• Opera Mini 6 and Opera Mobile 11 released (slashgear.com)
• Opera Mini 6 and Opera Mobile 11 debut (go.theregister.com)
• Opera Mini and Mobile update – but which do you need? (onsoftware.en.softonic.com)
• Opera Mini 6 and Opera Mobile 11 Released for Java, Symbian, Android, BlackBerry, Windows 7 and Meego (techie-buzz.com)
• Opera Announces Opera Mini 6, Opera Mobile 11 (phonescoop.com)
• Opera Mini 6 and Opera Mobile 11 (mobilegameroids.wordpress.com)

Another great video from the vikings on Norway! As I mentioned, Opera Mini totally revolutionizes the Internet access and with flaky crappy connections in India (perhaps most of the other developing nations and third world countries), this is a boon. I stay away from the mobile content in many ways but is important when required for a quci check of facts and when I am away from my Wifi.

Here’s the vision:

Hope you enjoy it.

If for anything, I remain obessed about Opera. True, that their desktop product is sucking up in a big way (with the random crashes and unfixed bug reports), but there is imminent launch of Opera Mini 6 (with it’s app store baked in).

It’s good to be excited about a software that makes it easy for Internet access. We are still to see the way opera mini on it’s various platforms, be disruptive.

Of course, there if Firefox for mobile; but we’d let it wait. Mozilla needs a lot of work to make it happen. I am still waiting for it’s Jetpack API to mature which would make the extension ecosystem cross platform (if I am not mistaken- much like Opera’s Widgets concept). A brilliant idea but far ahead of it’s time since the widgets can run on any platform. It’s too bad that most of the tech writers are craving about Chrome’s apps which are crappy useless bookmarks.