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New beta for Opera Mini 4 coming on Thursday

Published August 28th, 2007 3:54 PM EDT By Daniel Goldman

The Opera Mini team will be releasing another beta version of Opera Mini 4 this Thursday, August 30th (Read about the first beta here).

This beta includes many bug fixes, significantly improved support for Blackberry phones, support for additional phones, and new features (of course :) ).

2 days and counting…

Read the announcement on the Opera Mini team blog.

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  1. 1 Cyro Aug 28th, 2007 at 4:28 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.23 on Windows Windows Vista

    That’s great news but I wish the title was slightly different:
    “First preview for Opera 9.50 coming on Thursday”

  2. 2 Daniel Goldman Aug 28th, 2007 at 4:30 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.50 on Windows Windows XP

    Cyro, hopefully you’ll see that pretty soon too :)

  3. 3 Ryan Aug 28th, 2007 at 5:08 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.23 on Windows Windows XP

    Hmm, wonder why they’re being released so close to one another? :P

  4. 4 Øyvind Ø Aug 29th, 2007 at 10:30 am
    using Internet Explorer Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows Windows XP

    Bookmarksharing!!! I’m dying for it :p

    - ØØ -

  5. 5 YtseJam Aug 29th, 2007 at 11:24 am
    using Opera Opera 9.50 on Windows Windows XP

    Daniel, my guess is that BiDi regressions won’t be fixed.

  6. 6 Daniel Goldman Aug 29th, 2007 at 11:32 am
    using Opera Opera 9.50 on Windows Windows XP

    YtseJam, I haven’t yet checked out BiDi support with the new beta.

  7. 7 impotent Aug 29th, 2007 at 11:35 am
    using Opera Opera 9.23 on Windows Windows XP

    Its only 3hrs left 4 thursday, here in India.

  8. 8 anban Aug 29th, 2007 at 11:57 am
    using Opera Mini Opera Mini 8.01

    Can’t wait !

  9. 9 anban Aug 29th, 2007 at 12:01 pm
    using Opera Mini Opera Mini 8.01

    Yeppi!

  10. 10 Peter Aug 30th, 2007 at 6:18 am
    using Mozilla Firefox Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.6 on Windows Windows XP

    Is it Thursday, isn’t it?

  11. 11 hansbendiksen Aug 30th, 2007 at 10:46 am
    using Opera Opera 9.23 on Windows Windows Vista

    Just downloaded Opera Mini 4 Beta2… I just have to say, it can’t get better than this!!! WOW!!! The speed is great, and the flip to horizontal view is fantastic! The search is just like on the desktop version with multiple searchengines and easy custom add search…

    And yes, the fontsize to medium, small, large and extra large is back.

  12. 12 Jimmy Sep 6th, 2007 at 11:35 pm
    using Opera Mini Opera Mini 9.50

    I’m running a Sony Ericsson K800i and every version of Opera be it stable or beta none of them will stay connected so it’s costing me a lot of money. Ok yes only $1 for 5 minutes but still that is all the time Opera reconnects so that is like 10 wasted because it takes 10 times to move around a website. When will this issue be fixed ? I’m getting the W960i when it arrives in Australia and it has WiFi so makes life easier

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