Opera Mini 4 beta out now

[gxsaurav]

I wonder pally didn't post this news

Opera has released the new version or superb mobile browser for any phone out there except for iPhone. Code named Dimension, the main new feature is a overview feature which shows a small render of whole page on a screen on which you can zoom using a zoomer box.

Betanews states

Opera Software has released a beta of version 4 of its popular Opera Mini browser for mobile phones, which integrates features the company designed for its Nintendo Wii browser. Now, users can see an entire Web page in "overview mode" and zoom in to specific parts.


When zooming, Opera Mini snaps to content so scrolling is smooth. A virtual mouse cursor aids users in moving down a page and selecting links, although the software resizes text and images to reduce the amount of scrolling required.


Opera says the new Mini is twice as fast as any other mobile browser, and compares its offering with the capabilities of Apple's new iPhone in a spoof video. Because it is based on Java, Opera Mini can work on any handset, anywhere in the world, and is free to use, the company points out."We are excited to share the beta with the fast-growing community of Opera Mini users," said Opera CEO Jon von Tetzchner. "The feedback from the beta users will go to make Opera Mini even better and we thank the community for their efforts. Opera Mini has succeeded only due to the support of the people who have made it the most popular mobile browser available today."


Opera says more than 15 million people have used Opera Mini since its worldwide debut in 2006. For more information on Opera Mini 4 Beta, and to download the software directly to a phone, visit the browser's homepage. Palm and Blackberry versions are available for manual download and installation.

I am using it right now, & my biggest gripe is that Orkut won't work. oh well I m sure it will cos it used to work in OperaMini 3.1. This is new feature list given by Opera team

10 reasons to love Opera Mini 4 beta

1) Surf the Web in style

The Web. Period. You can get any site, anywhere, at any time. It's your Web, to go.

2) "X marks the spot" — start at the right place

When you load a page, Opera Mini will automatically suggest a place to begin reading. When it's time to dive into the page, Opera Mini zooms in and cleanly focuses on the content you want.
3) Stay at the right place

Opera Mini dynamically changes the size of text and images to make it convenient to read without a lot of unnecessary scrolling.
4) A mouse!

We included a virtual mouse to make it easy to scroll in any direction. The mouse cursor will look for content and links, and snap the view to them.
5) Power scrolling

Scroll faster using the keypad. Simply hit 2 to go up, 4 to go left, 6 to go right and 8 to go down. Opera Mini will snap the view to the content. Hit 5 to zoom in and out.
6) Fast and cheaper browsing

As always, Opera Mini delivers the pages you want, quickly. In doing so, Opera Mini makes your data bill cheaper, too. Opera Mini loads pages more than 2x faster than other mobile browsers.

7) Good old Small Screen Rendering

Is it just too much scrolling for you? Turn on "Fit to width" and enjoy the pages in the Small Screen Rendering view. In this view, the structure of the Web page is changed into a single vertical column, removing the need to scroll horizontally while browsing.
8) Quick access to key functionality with the context menu

Hit 1 to open the context menu, where you can turn on Small Screen Rendering (Fit to width) or reload the page. When focusing the cursor on a link you can see where the link really will take you, or choose to open the linked page with images turned off. When browsing with images off, you can choose to load the images in a page by selecting "Load images". You can even load the image in its original size and uncompressed, high quality by choosing "Open image".
9) Web designers go wild

We included all the cool CSS support you need to make your mobile web pages look pixel perfect.
10) It's just the beta

More crazy stuff will arrive shortly.

Excep for saving directly to Memory which isn't possible due to JAVA limitation, Opera Mini on my K750i rox, I even visit this forum using it if i m not at home in night.

You can download Opera Mini 4 by opening mini.opera.com/beta in your mobile phone's browser.

[blueshift]

i wish i had a bigger screen on my mob instead of 128x160px size.
Thanks for the update.

[Charan]

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[fun2sh]

i didnot find the zoom feature much cool. its a bit annoyin to zoom n then scroll so much for the page u r lookin. plus it has many bugs too. for example i can loggin at many site includin digit.

[gxsaurav]

^^^ obviously yaar, its in beta right now

[Zeeshan Quireshi]

Originally Posted by blueshift

i wish i had a bigger screen on my mob instead of 128x160px size.
Thanks for the update.

My dad's huge E62 screen is amazing here

[blueshift]

Right now browsing on opera mini4.
I liked this smooth scroll functionality and css support is good. And yeah it is really faster! And 'overview mode' is helpful only if you have big screen..text is hardly readable on small screen when in overview mode. Fit to width is sometimes not useful coz it puts only 1 word per line(in orkut profile page,the left side column links).
I wish they provide a feature for bookmarks backup on pc coz i ve bookmarked several sites in previous version and theres no way i can tranfer it except manually.

Btw gx, i know why u mentioned its not available for iPhone. lol

[max_demon]

if u dont have GPRS active on your phone u can download here
http://mini.opera.com/dl/k9-jKDmPc2U...ODw8C/mini.jar
mini.opera.com/beta/mini.jad?rnd=2087106066&edition=hifi

[chesss]

iphone vs opera mini
or rather
free vs obscene price

http://www.operamini.com/beta/video/minivsiphone.ogg -macboys may want to avoid this

[GeeNeeYes]

it might be stale news to post here but check out my article on Opera Mini
http://www.geeneeyes.coz.in/2007../opera-mini-launches...html

Since the new version has come the older version just can't seem to remember passwords. And the new one doesn't do it either. Browsing forums has become a real pain in the a....

[sabret00the]

hmm...even mobile browsers have gone a long way...huh

[blueshift]

I cant reply using beta.

[ashfame]

one of my friend told me many of the links are un-clickable. anybody else facing the same prob?

The new one is working fine now. Just a few bugs which i hope will be not be there in the final version.

[hailgautam]

Yes posting messages is a buggy. Eg i could not scrap on orkut