Opera Mini 3.0 is finally out

Published November 28th, 2006 9:48 AM EST By Daniel Goldman

The new Opera Mini 3.0 is now available for download after a couple public beta versions (Opera Mini team blog post here).

Some of the new features in Opera Mini (See demo video below):

Easy photo sharing
If you have a photoblog, or you would like to upload a photo to a website (such as MySpace or My.Opera), you could snap the picture directly from the Opera Mini browser, and then proceed to upload it.

RSS Feed Reader
The RSS Feed Reader works the same way as on the Opera desktop browser, where you can read the entire text of the feed, not just the headlines.

Secure banking/shopping
Support SSL and HTTPS for secure browsing.

Content folding
This is perhaps my most favorite new feature. Opera Mini 3.0 will automatically detect long lists on the page, such as the ones usually found on blog sidebars with archive links, etc, and collapse them into a single line. Near the collapsed line, you can maximize it by clicking on the ‘plus’ icon. It should reduce the scrolling needed. Neat.

Faster surfing
After the first page visit, the Opera Mini 3.0 on your phone will keep an open connection with Opera Mini’s servers, which means you won’t have to wait for the browser to connect each time you visit a page. As a result pages load about 2 seconds faster than pervious versions of Opera Mini.

Download Opera Mini by going to operamini.com on your current WAP mobile browser, or through an SMS/Text Message here. It’s free.

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A: Opera is one of the most powerful Web browsers around. A Web browser is the program that allows you to view Web pages. Opera is well known for innovation for PC browsers and bringing the full web to mobile phones and devices.

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A: Absolutely not. In fact, many of the features that are popular in other browsers today were invented and pioneered by Opera a long time ago. Opera invented the precursor to tabs (in 1994), Page Zoom (1994), was the first browser to block pop-up ads (2000), first to add a Search field in the browser toolbar (2000), Sessions (1996), deleting private data (2000), Mouse Gestures (2000), User JavaScript (2005), BitTorrent support (2005), Widgets (2006), Speed Dial (2007), and much more.

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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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