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Countdown to Opera Mini 4 beta: Less than 24 hours

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 Published June 18th, 2007 12:19 PM EDT By Daniel Goldman

In less than 24 hours everyone will get their hands on the newly polished and improved Opera Mini 4 beta.

Tomorrow is the big day. Browsing on mobile phones is about to get easier. I can’t spill the beans just yet; you’ll have to wait until the Opera Mini team releases it tomorrow.

Let the countdown begin!

Update: Opera Mini 4 beta is here.

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  1. 1 Dion Jun 18th, 2007 at 12:32 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.21 on Windows Windows XP

    At LAAAST !!!! Can’t wait any longer

    I hope this is going to change mobile web browsing forever – and lead millions more to Opera 9 ;-)

    ps: Just hope my bookmarks will be intact after the upgrade

  2. 2 Daniel Goldman Jun 18th, 2007 at 12:38 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.50 on Windows Windows XP

    Dion, on my phone (the Samsung M610) Opera Mini keeps the bookmarks during upgrades. It depends on your phone.

  3. 3 EC Jun 18th, 2007 at 12:39 pm
    using Mozilla Firefox Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.4 on Windows Windows XP

    Your bookmarks from the desktop browser???

    Aha! That’s it!

  4. 4 Free Jun 18th, 2007 at 12:49 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.21 on Windows Windows XP

    Can you at least tell me, what size this version is? :-)

    110 KB or ?

  5. 5 Dion Jun 18th, 2007 at 1:19 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.21 on Windows Windows XP

    Thanx Daniel for the bookmark assurance.

    I couldn’t help but notice your “flaunting of Opera 9.50″ in your post

    Are we getting that as well?

  6. 6 Cyro Jun 18th, 2007 at 1:28 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.21 on Windows Windows Vista

    Daniel, any news regarding a future Opera Desktop beta?

  7. 7 Trickster Jun 18th, 2007 at 1:33 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.20 on Windows Windows XP

    Argh, stop talking about Opera Desktop. This post is about Opera Mini, OK?

  8. 8 Zotlan Jun 18th, 2007 at 5:26 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.21 on Windows Windows XP

    @Dion

    From the desktopteam blog.
    So it’s looking good for 9.5 :-)

  9. 9 Øyvind Ø Jun 18th, 2007 at 6:41 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.21 on Windows Windows XP

    pr0n: http://my.opera.com/dstorey/blog/2007/06/18/css3-selectors-support-on-your-phone

    - ØØ -

  10. 10 AA Saheer Jun 18th, 2007 at 11:49 pm
    using Mozilla Firefox Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.4 on Windows Windows XP

    It is 0915 hours of 19 June in India now, and I still wait for the new opera mini

  11. 11 babyfood Jun 19th, 2007 at 3:49 am
    using Opera Mini Opera Mini 8.01

    its 09:45 the 19 in south africa but still no opera the suspense is killing me

  12. 12 Garrett Wu Jun 19th, 2007 at 4:04 am
    using Opera Opera 9.21 on Windows Windows XP

    it’s out

    http://www.operamini.com/beta/

  13. 13 astray Jun 19th, 2007 at 4:09 am
    using Opera Opera 9.21 on Linux Linux

    Hi,

    what time is OM 4 going to be released? It’s 8:09 (GMT) now and the http://www.operamini.com website still offers the old 3.1 version.

    ast

  14. 14 Filip Norrgård Jun 19th, 2007 at 5:16 am
    using Opera Opera 9.21 on Windows Windows Vista

    I downloaded Opera Mini beta over an hour ago and it works nicely. Reminds me of the S60 browser (or is it vice versa? :) ) but naturally faster and slimmer than the latter.

    But, what are those other features we’re supposed to wait for… hmm…

    Opera 8.50 can be downloaded from the article “A call for video on the web” over at a href=”http://labs.opera.com/”>http://labs.opera.com/. Read the article for important information on installation and the link to the download. (Note: the link says it’s Opera 8.50 but I haven’t checked the download out. YMMV)

  15. 15 Rhonnysparks Jun 19th, 2007 at 5:33 am
    using Opera Opera 9.21 on Windows Windows XP

    it’s here!

  16. 16 Martin Jun 19th, 2007 at 6:30 am
    using Mozilla Firefox Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.4 on Windows Windows XP

    It’s here and working great! Still need alot of fine tuning and trimming, but once again the Opera team sets a record :)

  17. 17 Vaughn Filmore Jul 11th, 2007 at 5:38 am
    using Mozilla Firefox Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.4 on Windows Windows XP

    There is one problem with Opera Mini (at least on my Samsung A880). I now have 3 versions of Opera installed because I’ve not had time to retype all the bookmarks to the latest version before a new version comes out.

    There should be a way to export the bookmarks, at least temporarily, to an external site to be used to import them back into the latest version.

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