Opera Mini 5 :: An Enhanced Mobile Browser

Opera continues to dominate cell phone browsers with releasing Opera Mini 5. Although in beta, Opera Mini 5 already showed its fangs as a mobile browser for future. Opera offers innovations that make the browser like a PC Internet browser.

Opera Mini is an Internet browser in Java. The Opera skyrocketed when Opera launched Opera Mini 4. According to some sources, this year, Opera Mini has been installed on 40 million cell phones (One million times downloaded via iPhone) as a default application (pre-installed). Fair if Opera Mini is currently cited as an authority in mobile browser market.

What are the advantages of Opera Mini compared with other browsers? There are at least five things that make this browser the user preferred. Small screen rendering (SSR), Opera Mini is able to display a web page format in accordance with mobile screen size. SSR is capable of supporting a resolution of small screen, under 128 pixels (wide). In the SSR mode, images will be adjusted to not larger than the screen size (not more than 70 percent). That way, the site pages can be viewed comfortably.

Then, Opera Mini also supports JavaScript features to support application functionality in Web pages. The existence of JavaScript in the Opera Mini make it looks like a PC browser. Also Opera Mini comes complete browsing tools, such as bookmarks, web feed aggregations, skins and search engines. The security was already good as the browser is equipped with automatic encryption feature to protect important data when connecting.

However, the main reasons why people choose the Opera Mini is because the Opera does not spend too much memory. The application is not more than 500 KB awhile after install on mobile phone is not more than 1 MB. It makes Opera Mini able to be applied in any cell phones. Well, the version 5 is now claimed to have almost the same capabilities as the PC Internet browser. Also Opera Mini 5 has many new features.

Some new interesting features of Opera Mini 5 Beta is tabbed browsing to open multiple pages at the same time, speed dial to place a list of favorite pages in the early pages (this is very similar to the PC version), a password manager to save passwords, screen rendering more well so much faster in opening Web pages.

To get Opera Mini 5 Beta, the users can download it directly from a mobile browser in m.opera.com/next or via an intermediary PC to open the site www.opera.com/mini/next. Jar file is only 200 kilobytes. Do not have to worry about compatibility, A lot of Cell phones have supported for the Opera Mini 5, even a touch screen. For touchscreen phone, the browser provides a virtual QWERTY keyboard feature.

After being installed, the Opera Mini 5 Beta would inspect fonts that match the size of cell phones, the process is quite long but brings very big benefit because it will help the process of browsing later. Once done, you will find a beautiful, innovative and new mobile browser while there is no mobile browser like this.