Opera Mini
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| Developer(s) | Opera Software | ||||||||||||||||
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| Initial release | 10 August 2005 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Development status | Active | ||||||||||||||||
| Written in | C++, Java, Pike | ||||||||||||||||
| Included with | Nokia X family,Samsung feature phones, devices by Celkon, Karbonn, Lava, Intex, Fly, Zen, HCL ME, and other manufacturers | ||||||||||||||||
| Engine | Presto (using server-side rendering),Blink | ||||||||||||||||
| Platform | Android, iOS, Tizen, Windows 10 Mobile, Windows Phone 8.1 (and previously supported Bada, BlackBerry OS, Java ME, Symbian-UIQ3, Zeebo) | ||||||||||||||||
| Available in | 50 languages | ||||||||||||||||
| Type | Mobile browser | ||||||||||||||||
| License | Freeware | ||||||||||||||||
| Website | www |
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| Android | 20.1.2254.110627 / November 28, 2016 |
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| iOS | 14.0.0 / June 16, 2016 |
| Windows Mobile 10 and Phone 8.1 | 9.1.0.232 / June 16, 2016 |
| BlackBerry | 8.0.1 / July 10, 2014 |
| Tizen | 7.7.17 / August 25, 2016 |
| Java ME | 8.0 / March 12, 2014 |
| Symbian | 7.1.32453 / December 6, 2016 |
| Tizen Smartwatch | 7.7 / August 25, 2016 |
Opera Mini is a web browser designed primarily for mobile phones, smartphones and personal digital assistants. Until version 4 it used the Java ME platform, requiring the mobile device to run Java ME applications. From version 5 it is also available as a native application for Android, iOS, Tizen, Windows10 Mobile and previously supported bada, Symbian OS, Windows Mobile, Windows Phone 8.1, BlackBerry. Opera Mini is offered free of charge, supported mainly through deals with mobile operators to have Opera Mini pre-installed in phones, and other sources of revenue such as search advertising deals, licensing and paid bookmarks and Speed Dial placement.
Opera Mini was derived from the Opera web browser for personal computers, which has been publicly available since 1996. Opera Mini began as a pilot project in 2004. After limited releases in Europe, it was officially launched worldwide on 24 January 2006.
Opera Software claims that Opera Mini requests web pages through Opera Software's compression proxy, the compression server process and compress requested web pages by up to 90% before sending them to the mobile phone, speeding up transfer by two to three times and dramatically reducing the amount of data transferred, chargeable on many mobile phone data plans. The pre-processing increases compatibility with web pages not designed for mobile phones. However, interactive sites which depend upon the device processing JavaScript do not work properly.
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