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Cnet says Opera Mini 4 is one of the best mobile browsers ever made

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 Published November 15th, 2007 11:56 AM EST By Daniel Goldman

cnet-logo.jpgMore nice words from Cnet today. After posting a positive video review of Opera Mini 4 yesterday on CnetTV, today Cnet wrote a blog post entitled “Opera Mini 4: One of the best mobile browsers ever made.”

Snippets from Cnet:

“But what if you don’t want an iPhone, or can’t afford one, and you still want a good mobile Web experience? Is there another browser out there that can compete with the might of the iPhone? Yes, there is — it’s called Opera Mini 4.”

“We’ve been using it for two days now and we have to say that it’s truly superb — and it’s free.”

Read: “Opera Mini 4: One of the best mobile browsers ever made” (Cnet)

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  1. 1 David Naylor Nov 15th, 2007 at 2:00 pm
    using Mozilla Firefox Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.9 on Mac OS Mac OS X

    I recently got a new phone from work, a Nokia N93i. I have tried both the bundled web browser (whatver it is) and also installed Opera Mini. I found the bundled browser to be much more intuitive and easy to use, for some reason. Maybe I’ll give Opera Mini a second try sometime.

  2. 2 sc Nov 15th, 2007 at 2:50 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.24 on Windows Windows XP

    David Naylor, what was the other browser? (Or should it be obvious from the phone model’s name… :) )

  3. 3 David Naylor Nov 15th, 2007 at 3:25 pm
    using Mozilla Firefox Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.9 on Mac OS Mac OS X

    I’m afraid I haven’t understood if the browser has a name. There doesn’t seem to be a name in the phone’s UI anyway.

  4. 4 yay Nov 15th, 2007 at 3:55 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.23 on Windows Windows XP

    So why was it more inuitive and easy to use?

  5. 5 Investor Nov 16th, 2007 at 8:54 am
    using Opera Opera 9.50 on Windows Windows XP

    Nokia N93i is a S60 phone having the WebKit based browser preinstalled… The browser also selected by Googles Android offer …

    OM is compared to S60, and found twice as fast ( http://www.operamini.com/features/ )

    Users (marketshare) and reviewers all suggest OM is better, eg. Cnet above, or :

    ” … The mobile Opera Mini 4 browser has just been released. This seems to be just the right stuff the GPhone could use as its killer app, since Opera Mini 4 is optimized for quicker scrolling, navigation, and page rendering on mobile handsets… ”
    ( http://www.merinews.com/catFull.jsp?articleID=127779 )

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