Opera Mini Web Browser for Android. Get a faster, more cost-efficient Web browsing experience. Use our powerful servers to compress data up to 90% before sending it to your phone, so page-loads are lightning-fast. Opera Mini is easy to use and Opera Link lets you synchronize data between your phone and computer. Try Opera Mini today, it is completely free.
Price: Free
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Opera Android Web Browser offers faster mobile web experience as they compress assets before sending them to you yielding bandwidth savings… meaning faster page loads. It features a nice start page with 9 quick bookmarks called Speed Dials to easily launch your favorite websites (hopefully you’ll add us on one of those cards
). However I noticed it is not integrated into Androids intent system, therefore when other apps would like to launch a URL in web browser it’s not in the list.
Tabbed browsing is not in the traditional sense of tabs above the webpage yet similar to the native browser via Speed Dial like bookmarks in the footer. Opera Link is an innovative idea that allows you to sync bookmarks and Speed Dials from desktop and phone once you’ve signed in. The download manager allows pausing and resuming as needed.
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To be honest I never opened Opera web browser before it hit Android. Which is a large statement coming from someone who’s background was in Web Design & Development. Why haven’t I focused there? Building enterprise web applications tend to dictate that answer. The market share has always been under served. Opera has never reached more than 3% worldwide usage on desktops to be significant enough to support.
I don’t foresee this trend continuing into the mobile space as they released a solid web browser pretty early on Android, not to mention more than 30 million mobile users on various mobile platforms. However they are competing with the native Web-kit Android web browser (with Pinch-Zoom and Double Tap browsing for Android 2+ devices), Dolphin Browser (with Gesture bookmarks and App Recommendations powered by AndroidTapp.com) and nearly forgotten but still awesome Steel. That said Opera offers users more choice in mobile web browsing.
The browser is pretty straight-forward among any mobile web browser, however you’ll notice faster page loads and cool features within the app. A small but useful tidbit I noticed, when you tap the Opera header it zooms the webpage to the top.
User dependent. However unusual, you cannot set it as your default mobile web browser without using Make It Default app.
The user experience and interface in Opera are superb. Completely optimized for mobile web browsing.




(4.4 out of 5)
Should you Download Opera Mini 5 Beta? Yes! By far the Fastest Android Web Browser!
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Cons: no multitouch.
con: Can’t use in China
I believe there is a larger problem there that supersedes this app. There are many Android apps not available in China.
So, the question is… why?
Actually, it was functional before, until it decided to help china government to censor the information from internet.
It loads pages fast but does anybody else have a problem with scrolling on it with the Hero? It seems like if I want to scroll straight down, it’ll kind of go off the the left/right a little… not a deal breaker but its getting annoying.
Hi, for anyone reading this, if you’re interested in the Android Opera browser (and you should be, it’s the quickest by far… also has tons of cool features), then look for OperaBridge on the Android market, it’ll make it possible to make Opera your default browser… problem solved.