Opera commercializes its server-side web compression with Opera Turbo

by Chris Ziegler posted Feb 12th 2009 at 5:13PM

Part of the reason why Opera Mini is so dang good at what it does -- provide desktop-esque web experiences to devices with limited horsepower and bandwidth -- is because Opera has become really good at acting as a proxy, compressing each and every nugget of data before it's sent down to the phone. The company's now looking to capitalize on that expertise, announcing its Opera Turbo initiative that's being pitched to both carriers and device manufacturers as an easy way to reduce bandwidth consumption by up to 80 percent. We love you, Opera, but if this gives carriers a good excuse to delay 4G rollouts, we hate you.

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Tags: opera, opera turbo, OperaTurbo

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ran @ Feb 13th 2009 2:22AM

I've been waiting 2 years for Opera Mobile to work on the Nokia E90/E71...

I guess I won't be seeing that any time soon.

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Andrew Lazetera @ Feb 14th 2009 10:24PM

It works on my E62... it should be working with any S60 device.

Came standard on my new HTC Touch pro, and let me tell you, I went back to internet exploder it is so irritating. Loved it on my Nokia though...