Articles tagged with: Opera Mini and Java

Which country experienced the greatest growth in mobile Web usage last year?

Opera, which provides a Java based mobile browser has reported that in January 2009, consumer Opera Mini use jumped 12.1% over the previous month to 20 million unique users. Monthly page views increased even more, jumping 18% to 7.6 billion Web pages in the same time period. Data transfers were also up 18% from December 2008 as Opera Mini generated more than 122 million MB of data for operators worldwide.  more

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Opera Launches Mobile Browser with Desktop Sync Facility

The web browser developer, Opera has released the latest version of its Opera Mini web browser for java based mobile phones. The new browser includes the ability to synchronize your desktop web browser bookmarks with the mobile version, so there is no chance of forgetting a weblink when on the move.  more

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Opera Mini Installed in 15 Million Handsets

Usage of Opera Mini, a Java based Web browser for mobile phones, continues to grow worldwide. With more than 15 million cumulative users, Opera Mini claims to be the most popular downloadable Java software for mobile phones.

"With more than six million Java technology developers and 1.8 billion Java technology-enabled mobile handsets, the Java technology ecosystem continues to expand. Opera Mini has distinguished itself in this landscape and is succeeding to penetrate the market, making a great proof point of the ongoing vitality of the Java technology development community," says Jean Elliott, senior director Client Software Group product marketing, Sun Microsystems.

"We're proud of Opera Mini's award winning usability, but ultimately it's a popular application because it is useful to everyone," says Tatsuki Tomita, EVP, Opera Software. "We wrote Opera Mini in Java technology so that we could bring the full Internet to the largest number of mobile phones around the world."

People in Russia and the United States are the most prolific users of Opera Mini, with the Chinese a close third. more

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Full Web Browser for Java Mobile Phones

Norway's Opera Software has launched a web browser that the company says will work on the majority of Java enabled mobile phones. Opera Mini is an alternative to Opera's mobile browser, allowing users to access the Web on mobile phones that would normally be incapable of running a Web browser. This includes the vast majority of today's WAP-enabled phones. Instead of requiring the phone to process Web pages, it uses a remote server to pre-process the page before sending it to the phone. more

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