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Next major beta version of Opera Mini in the works; Announcement coming soon

Published May 9th, 2007 1:51 PM EDT By Daniel Goldman

In the coming days the Opera Mini team will make an announcement regarding the upcoming beta version of the Opera Mini browser.

The new beta version truly has next-generation browsing capabilities. I’ve been testing this version for some time already, and I’ve been extremely impressed by what this new tiny browser can do.

Keep an eye for the announcement; you don’t want to miss it.

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  1. 1 DjiXas May 9th, 2007 at 1:56 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.20 on Windows Windows XP

    Good News I guess.

    Any more details you can provide? Or onlty after some releases? :-)

  2. 2 sonyx May 9th, 2007 at 2:06 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.20 on Windows Windows XP

    Great news, looking forward to it:D

  3. 3 chat May 9th, 2007 at 3:57 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.20 on Windows Windows XP

    Yeah, grat, i am happy :) and curious.

  4. 4 Olli May 9th, 2007 at 4:22 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.50 on Windows Windows Vista

    The new version runs smoothly on my phone :-p

  5. 5 Marius May 9th, 2007 at 4:32 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.20 on Windows Windows XP

    The new version runs smoothly on my phone :-p

    Teasing *******! :p

  6. 6 kftgr May 9th, 2007 at 8:04 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.20 on Windows Windows 2000

    Sideways browsing, please. Worked fine on that one “unofficial demo”

  7. 7 onat lopera May 9th, 2007 at 10:23 pm
    using Mozilla Firefox Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.3 on Windows Windows XP

    Landscape browsing maybe? Tip your phone sideways or up it changes display orientation. That would be nice.

  8. 8 Renato Perini May 9th, 2007 at 11:21 pm
    using Opera Mini Opera Mini 8.01

    Opera Mini 3.2 or Opera Mini 4.0?

  9. 9 Daniel Goldman May 9th, 2007 at 11:29 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.50 on Windows Windows XP

    Renato, …or something else :)

  10. 10 quiris May 10th, 2007 at 2:06 am
    using Opera Opera 9.20 on Windows Windows XP

    3.5 :)

  11. 11 Random Nickname May 10th, 2007 at 3:29 am
    using Opera Opera 9.10 on Windows Windows Server 2003

    I know what it is - it’s AJAX! (Let it be AJAX, let it be AJAX…)

  12. 12 Renato Perini May 10th, 2007 at 8:14 pm
    using Mozilla Firefox Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.3 on Linux Linux

    Ok, so I think its name will be “Opera Mini FX 1.0″, using the new JavaFX presented by Sun 2 days ago… :D :D :D

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