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BBC recommends Opera Mini for browsing its website

Published September 12th, 2007 10:45 AM EDT By Daniel Goldman

From the ‘Help’ section on the BBC website:

Full web on your phone
If you’d prefer to access the full BBC Sport website on your phone, you can use software from other companies, such as Opera Mini.

This software allows you to view the full BBC Sport website at a reduced cost by compressing the web pages. It also contains an RSS reader allowing you to subscribe to BBC Sport RSS feeds whilst on the move.

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  1. 1 philry4n Sep 12th, 2007 at 10:55 am
    using Opera Opera 9.23 on Windows Windows XP

    that’s what i’ve been doing at BBC :)

    without reading the help section first though :D

  2. 2 Dante Sep 12th, 2007 at 11:55 am
    using Opera Opera 9.50 on Windows Windows XP

    Me too ;)

    I asked BBC once for a feed to world news that link to the print versions of their articles (so I don’t download the menus and the rest of the fodder every time). They never answered.

    I wonder if OM4’s cache would help with this issue: visiting (non-consecutively: that it does now, right?) multiple pages that share a lot of content.

  3. 3 Maulkin Sep 12th, 2007 at 2:48 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.50 on Windows Windows XP

    Well that’s a good point for them! :)

  4. 4 blaberus Sep 13th, 2007 at 5:01 am
    using Opera Opera 9.23 on Windows Windows XP

    I like the ‘Text only’ (not ‘Mobile/PDAs’) version there, it’s ideal for reading news with Opera Mini. Been reading it from the last summer.

    Heh heh, tried to open it, there’s an error…

  5. 5 blaberus Sep 13th, 2007 at 5:03 am
    using Opera Opera 9.23 on Windows Windows XP

    Ah sorry, It’s called ‘Low graphics’ and it’s OK: http://news.bbc.co.uk/text_only.stm

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