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PC Magazine names Opera Mini the Best Software of 2007

Published November 21st, 2007 6:41 PM EST By Daniel Goldman

Opera Mini 4 was named the ‘Best Software of 2007’ by PC Magazine.

From PC Magazine:

“Browsing the Web from your smartphone doesn’t have to be an experience you’d rather forget. Opera Mini sports an “intelligent zoom” so you can zero in on what you really want to read on the small screen. Opera even compresses the page for you, so the download is swift. And you can’t beat the price: free.”

This isn’t the first time PC Magazine is jumping on the Opera Mini bandwagon. In a previous review of Opera Mini 4 they wrote:

“Opera Mini 4.0 continues the tradition of being a must-download for anyone who browses the Web from their phone.”

On another occasion they wrote:

“First you’ve got to scrap the included wimpy browser and download Opera Mini 4.0 instead. It’s faster and more powerful, plus the latest version offers “intelligent zoom” which helps when navigating websites that haven’t been optimized for viewing on mobile devices.”

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  1. 1 Tamil Nov 22nd, 2007 at 12:44 am
    using Opera Opera 9.50 on Ubuntu Linux Ubuntu Linux

    Nice review.

  2. 2 Ryan M Nov 22nd, 2007 at 1:45 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.24 on Windows Windows XP

    By the time I get wireless Internet access on my phone, Opera Mini will be at version 10! *cries*

    But this more than makes up for it now. :D

  3. 3 philry4n Nov 22nd, 2007 at 3:55 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.50 on Windows Windows XP

    Okay, too many Opera news released today that i can handle translating for Opera Indonesia. Pity me, it’s like 7-9 translatable (is this a word?) articles released today :p

    hehe great news that Opera is getting lots of awards :yes:

  4. 4 Cyro Nov 23rd, 2007 at 2:39 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.50 on Windows Windows Vista

    “PC Magazine names Opera 10.0 the Best Software of 2008″

  5. 5 inchirieri masini Nov 23rd, 2007 at 3:04 pm
    using Mozilla Firefox Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.9 on Windows Windows XP

    I noticed everybody is using Opera around here but me..I got used to FF I guess and is a bit hard to move to Opera.

  6. 6 XP1 Nov 25th, 2007 at 2:31 am
    using Opera Opera 9.50 on Windows Windows Vista

    Yes philry4n, translatable is a word.

  7. 7 Daniel Goldman Nov 26th, 2007 at 10:54 am
    using Opera Opera 9.50 on Windows Windows XP

    philry4n, great!! Keep up the good work!

  8. 8 stenosis Nov 26th, 2007 at 8:12 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.50 on Mac OS Mac OS X

    That’s great :D

  9. 9 ktswami Nov 27th, 2007 at 2:23 am
    using Opera Opera 9.50 on Mac OS Mac OS X

    Good stuff, Daniel…though I’m waiting to see Opera running on an Android phone!! :)

  10. 10 Olli Nov 27th, 2007 at 1:48 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.50 on Windows Windows Vista

    ktswami: Don’t you first need to see a actual Android phone? :-p

  11. 11 promis Nov 28th, 2007 at 7:08 am
    using Mozilla Firefox Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.10 on Windows Windows 2000

    I use opera on my cellphone.. “Best Software of 2007″ is well deserved imho!

  12. 12 aleksanteri Nov 28th, 2007 at 9:40 am
    using Konqueror Konqueror 3.5 on Linux Linux

    I wish I had a phone to use with OM4 :-(

  13. 13 aleksanteri Nov 28th, 2007 at 9:42 am
    using Opera Opera 9.50 on Linux Linux

    Dah, wrong browser there :p

  14. 14 Khaled Khalil Nov 28th, 2007 at 9:50 am
    using Opera Opera 9.50 on Linux Linux

    congratulations Dimension :)

    ktswami, olli
    from what i understood java classes and jars can be recompiled to dex bytecode to run on dalvik vm, though i am not sure if that applies also on java me or only java se, the former have some additional restrictions.

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