Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 24th Jan 2006 19:18 UTC
Opera Software today announced the release of Opera Mini, the full Web browser that runs on almost every mobile Java phone, including low- and mid-end handsets. Opera Mini compresses Web pages by up to 80% and reformats them using Small-Screen Rendering for easy and fast browsing on small, mobile screens. For the end-user, this means faster browsing and dramatically reduced phone bills for those who pay per KB in data traffic. Screenshots rendering OSNews and our sister-site GnomeFiles.
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2005-06-28
>How come they're giving it all for free now.
This is easy to answer: because no carrier in the world used it. They probably had a very small interest by carriers, mostly because carriers have VERY specific guidelines about the features and layout and fonts of a browser, points that Opera Mini doesn't support or doesn't want to support.
>How do they make money from it?
Sometimes, it's all about prestige and free marketing, in order to push other products from the same company.
BTW, an interesting discussion on Opera Mini is here too: http://www.russellbeattie.com/notebook/1008770.html