Opera Mini was derived from the for , which has been publicly available since 1996. Opera Mini began as a pilot project in 2005. After limited releases in , it was officially launched worldwide on January 24, 2006.
Opera Mini is adesigned primarily for ,and . Until version 4 it used the platform, requiring the mobile device to run Java ME applications. From version 5 it is also available as a native application for , , ,OS, and . Opera Mini is offered free of charge, supported mainly through deals with mobile operators to have Opera Mini pre-installed in phones,and other sources of revenue such as search advertising deals, licensing and paid bookmarks and Speed Dial placement.
Opera Mini requests through servers, which process and compress them before sending them to the mobile phone, speeding up transfer by two to three times and dramatically reducing the amount of data transferred, chargeable on many data plans. The pre-processing increases compatibility with web pages not designed for mobile phones.
On September 2012, Opera reported 275 million unique Opera Mini active users and 117 billion page views served during that month. This represented an 80.4% increase since March 2011.
Download
No comments:
Post a Comment