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Opera Mini serves up 1 billionth webpage

Published August 8th, 2006 9:18 AM EDT By Daniel Goldman

Opera Minitoday served up its one-billionth webpage since the browser’s official launch seven months ago.

Opera Mini is Opera’s tiny mobile web browser that is designed to enable the web on mobile phones that would normally be incapable of running a Web browser.

Instead of requiring the phone to process Web pages, Opera Mini uses a remote server to pre-process the page before sending it to the phone, which makes it perfect for phones with very low resources, or low bandwidth connections.

Pages are reformatted and compressed before being sent to the phone, so they only use about one fifth of their normal amount of traffic.

The most popular sites, according to Opera, are Google search, community and dating sites, e-mail and adult content.

More than five million active users worldwide use the Opera Mini browser, with the highest number of users coming from Russia, closely followed by the United States, India, Scandinavia and the UK.

The most popular sites on Opera Mini are:

Opera Mini is increasingly being installed by both mobile phone carriers (operators) and manufacturers. T-Mobile is the biggest phone carrier to pre-install Opera Mini on some of their mobile phones. Even eBay has its own customized version of Opera Mini.

Opera Mini runs on all phones that support Java, which most already do. It is estimated that there are more than 700 million Java enabled mobile phones in the market.

Opera Mini 2.0 is available as a free download from mini.opera.com

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  1. 1 Øyvind Ø Aug 8th, 2006 at 9:52 am
    using Opera Opera 9.01 on Windows Windows XP

    Congratulation Opera. Great news.

    Here is my Opera Mini, where is yours?
    http://my.opera.com/aroundtheworld/albums/showpic.dml?album=89703&picture=1174893

  2. 2 Sohil Aug 8th, 2006 at 2:48 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.00 on Windows Windows XP

    Doesn’t surprise me, Great News.

  3. 3 sc Aug 8th, 2006 at 3:25 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.01 on Windows Windows XP

    What does adult content look like after being processed by the Mini servers? Ascii art? :D

  4. 4 Shlomo Weizmann Aug 9th, 2006 at 1:32 pm
    using Mozilla Firefox Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.6 on Mac OS Mac OS X

    Opera Mini is really good, sometimes it’s faster than using an RSS reader or wap version of a page.

  5. 5 sarchi Sep 19th, 2006 at 2:03 pm
    using Mozilla Firefox Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.7 on Windows Windows 98

    I just u/l mini at the weekend to a 6820 next stop some useful bookmarks

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Q: Can I also use Opera on my mobile phone?
A: Yes. And your Nintendo Wii, Nintendo DS or almost any connected device and mobile phones. Opera Mobile oftens comes preinstalled from the manufacturers, but if it doesn't you can install Opera Mini which runs on nearly all phones.

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