Opera Mini has been a great addition to the mobile life. A browser that really help to browse the web in a portable device, especially in a mobile handset that does not have that much physical resources. It is a very good thing to browse Internet in a mobile device because it gives some great benefits which normally a built in mobile browser do no give. Definitely Opera Mini is the best choice for Mobile Internet usage.

The first thing that makes it one of the best mobile browsers is it uses a very small amount of data even for large webpages. It will dramatically reduce your Data Cost. For example if a webpage loaded into a web browser like Nokia S60 Browser transfers 200 KB Opera mini may transfer only 30-50 KB. It just depends on the content of the webpage. If you are using opera mini and set images off (because you may only be interested in the text) it may transfer only 10 KB data.

Other than this and the common features, there are loads of features like quick connect similar to speed dialing, bookmark synchronization with Opera’s PC version,1 column mobile view to fit texts to the phone screen, full page overview, multiple image quality.

The things that I’m enjoying most with the new version (4.1) of Opera Mini that it comes with a more enhanced JavaScript rendering and saving webpage for future use. The symbian version of the software is signed so that you can set not to display certain irritating security warnings each time when the software accessess the file system or connectivity. It also includes a native downloading support. The signed version of the software is very useful. It’s got a native support for downloading files.

With the advantages, comes the troubles. The newest version of the software comes with some instabilities. It often happens that the connection gets disconnected throwing an error message. I mean it happen “Often”.

Other things that I’m in trouble with it is that when I am about to download a file, it fails very frequently. Most of the time it downloads only a small portion of the file. For instance, last time I tried to download a 1.5 mb software from nokia website but it returned me with a corrupted zip file of 27 KB. Most of the time when the download fails, it downloads only this size of the data. I’ve tested these on some of my friends handsets also. Their feedback shows that they also had the same kind of problems with the piece of software.

However, I think the earlier versions are more stable than this and I have installed the older versions that works just fine.

Tested with Handset Models: Nokia 3250, N70, N73, Orange Sanyo s750i, Sony Ericcson K800i
Network & EDGE Status: Working with Phones Native Browser, Full Network Signal & Connectivity

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