opera mini 4

Opera has released their final installment of the free Opera Mini 4 mobile web browser that aims to take the mobile web surfing to the next level. The final version is released after three betas and the entire code of Opera Mini 4 is completely rewritten to make browsing experience better and comfortable. Opera Mini 4 is based on the same rendering engine as the Opera 9.5 destop browser.

What’s new in the Opera Mini 4 :

• PC synchronization with Mobile web browser
• Overview mode for easy surfing
• Text size changes dynamically to fit the width of your phone
• mobile corsor for easy navigation
• Scrolling shortcuts:

2 - Page up 8 - Page down 4 - Go to the left one column 6 - Go to the right one column 5 - Zoom in and out

• Toggle page view in different modes

By pressing the * and # shortcut keys, you could switch the page view to landscape mode

OM4 is light, easy to use and quickly gaining popularity. OM4 enables you to take your full Web experience and digital lifestyle with you — everywhere you go. Whether you want to access your mail, RSS feeds or bank information, Opera Mini is fast, safe and secure. Opera Mini 4 delivers several new features for quicker scrolling, navigation and page rendering. Opera Mini 4 is free, so download it now!

OM4 for Nokia mobile users Go to above page and select your handset and download the jad or jar file for installing via data cable.

Other users select their phone model from this list for installing via data cable through PC.

You can also download OperaMini 4 by visiting www.operamini.com using your phone and following the on screen instructions. Below is the screenshot of the welcome page after installing Opera Mini 4 on my e61i smartphone

When i compared the loading times of Nokia inbuilt web browser and the Opera Mini 4 i found that the Nokia browser is much more faster than OM4 . Also when i tried opening up pragams-group.blogspot.com it takes forever to connect and couldn’t load the webpage while at the same time and same connection settings Nokia inbuilt web browser was quick to open the site.

Below are some screenshots first one is Nokia’s browser , second one is Opera Mini 4 and the last one is google.com in OM 4, strange that google wasn’t able to detect that the page was requested from Opera mobile version and instead of rendering a mobile Google version it shows the actual page as it appears on the desktop browser.

If you open google.com from Nokia’s inbuilt web browser it opens up a google mobile version which is optimised for mobile surfing and saves data costs.