Opera Mini 4 goes beta

by Chris Ziegler, posted Jun 19th 2007 at 3:06PM

We thought Opera Mini was pretty good as it was, but the company has taken its smallest, lightest browser through a "complete redesign" for its fourth major release. Codenamed "Dimension," the new version features a Wii browser-like zoom that moves immediately to content -- a good idea when your screen's less than a quarter the resolution of the display the average full-fledged website was designed for. It's still in beta, but they seem to like what they've got going on; they're even putting it head-to-head with the iPhone's supposedly brilliant browser. Adventurous users can check it out straight from their handsets by browsing over to mini.opera.com/beta (manual Palm and BlackBerry installs are available directly from Opera's site).

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]

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Tags: beta, browser, opera, opera mini, OperaMini, web

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carlo @ Jun 19th 2007 3:35PM

Neat. Microsoft was trying this with DeepFish or something like that, but they only let about 20 people download it.

Arghhhh!!! Looks like this sort of thing will become standard soon enough.

:)

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Ayle @ Jun 21st 2007 9:37AM

I have deepfish and it a great browser but i find the new drag to scroll on the opera wm5/6 beta to be faster....

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Al @ Jun 19th 2007 5:25PM

It looks a lot like the S60 browser

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Tony B. @ Jun 19th 2007 5:47PM

Deepfish looks almost exactly the same (played around with it today). Worked pretty good actually.

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Alex @ Jun 19th 2007 6:47PM

This guy works like a charm on my Pearl

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elfguy @ Jun 20th 2007 8:06AM

I blogged about that yesterday. I say that this is revolutionary. This is bigger than the iPhone. Why? Because the 1 billion+ cellphones out there that supports Java who have been stuck with WAP sites can now instantly have access to the full desktop web experience, without having to buy a $600 smartphone and be on Cingular.

http://mobilitynow.org/2007/06/19/opera-mini-4-beta/

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miloofscorpio @ Jun 23rd 2007 11:12PM

it works great, one of the problems I had with 3.1 it was downloading images in their original resolution on my w810 was imposible it kept giving me this painfully water down image and that 5 piece download was a painfull process now I dont have to download the image I can just view it in its original size inside the browser, HELLO WEBCOMICS :D

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