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68-462: Opera Mobile Store has than 1 million app downloads a day and is accessible from any mobile phone via a bookmark or the Start Page of Opera Mini or Opera Mobile browsers. The store is also accessible from any other browser, including desktop versions, and on any operating system , from https://apps.opera.com/ . The Opera Mobile Store then forwards the user to the country-specific store based on

136-496: A built-in pointer , the user can zoom into a portion of the page to provide a clearer view; this is similar to the functionality of Opera's Nintendo-based web browsers. This version also includes the ability to synchronise with Opera on a personal computer. Prior to Opera Mini 4, the browser was offered in two editions: Opera Mini Advanced for high-memory MIDP 2 phones, and Opera Mini Basic for low-memory MIDP 1 phones. Opera Mini 4 replaced Opera Mini Advanced. Originally, Google

204-412: A certain amount of time before executing will not execute. After the scripts have finished or the timeout is reached, all scripts are stopped and the page is compressed and sent to the mobile device. Once on the device, only a handful of events are allowed to trigger scripts: When one of these events is triggered, it sends a request to the proxy server to process the event. The proxy server then executes

272-989: A cross-app store distribution partnership with Yandex , the largest search engine in the Russian-speaking Internet market and the leading search engine in Eastern Europe, based on audience reach. This agreement allows apps in the Opera Mobile Store also to be available for download in the Yandex app store and vice versa. The same year Opera Software signed several more partnership agreements with mobile carriers in Eastern Europe. Both MTS Belarus and MTS Ukraine launched Opera co-branded app stores for their 28 million total user base. Starting July 21, 2014 Opera Software started to offer service that provides mobile carriers' customers with unlimited access to premium games and apps catalogue built on

340-510: A font required is not available on the device, which is useful for indic scripts. Hindi , Bengali and a few other non-Latin character sets are supported. When browsing the Web in Opera Mini mode, JavaScript is processed by the proxy server, and is merely rendered on the device. This limits interactivity . Scripts cannot be run in the background on the device. If a script is paused (on

408-425: A format more suitable for small screens. A page is compressed , then delivered to the phone in an interpreted markup language called Opera Binary Markup Language (OBML) supported by Opera Mini. According to Opera Software, the data compression makes transfers about two to three times faster and uses less data, and the pre-processing improves the display of web pages not designed for small screens. The turbo mode

476-599: A group of American investors, the International Communications Group , with a 45% stake; and the government of what was then the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic , with a 55% stake. When Uzbekistan declared independence several weeks later, the registration of the joint venture was shifted from Moscow to Tashkent , with the government stake taken over by the independent Uzbek government. The company first turned

544-653: A guide that teaches how to run Opera Mini inside the Chromium browser. MTS Belarus Mobile TeleSystems ( MTS ) ( Russian : Мобильные ТелеСистемы , МТС) is the largest mobile network operator in Russia , headquartered in Moscow , operating on GSM , UMTS and LTE standards. Apart from cellular network, the company also offers local telephone service , broadband , mobile television , cable television , satellite television and digital television . As of Q1 2021,

612-625: A license to expand it on 700 MHz in December 2010. The brand UMC in Uzbekistan existed until mid-2007, when a major rebranding campaign occurred turning UMC into MTS. In July 2012, authorities in Uzbekistan announced the suspension of the operating license of MTS's subsidiary Uzdunrobita . Officials argued that MTS-Uzbekistan has been responsible for a series of technical violations, and its operations have been suspended beginning on

680-478: A mechanism for selecting players from the Gambit league to professional e-sports teams. On September 17, 2019, it was revealed that a storage device containing 1.7 terabytes of information related to MTS was exposed to the public internet in a data leak. In 2022, the company's revenue amounted to 392 billion rubles. In January 2024, MTS, which previously owned a minority stake, increased its stake to 80.58% in

748-498: A partnership deal with MTS, whereby Vodafone services will be available to MTS subscribers and both companies have noted the potential for more efficient purchasing, starting with operations in Ukraine . In October 2015, Mobile TeleSystems and Vodafone expanded their strategic partnership; this resulted in the rebranding of MTS Ukraine to Vodafone Ukraine . MTS sold its Ukraine operations in 2019. In Armenia, services under

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816-543: A profit in 1993. By 1996, it had $ 50 million in annual revenues, 7,000 subscribers, and employed 224 staff. Gulnora Karimova gained control of the firm in the late 1990s or early 2000s, and by 2005 it was 74% owned by Russia's MTS, which paid $ 121 million for the stake. In 2006 it was reported to have 250,000 subscribers, ahead of Daewoo Unitel , which had 100,000, and a number of much smaller firms. The company launched an LTE network on 2.6 GHz in July 2010, and receive

884-485: A proxy server run by the Opera Software company, which retrieves, processes and compresses the full page, and sends the smaller processed page back to the client's device. By default, Opera Mini opens one connection to the proxy servers, which it keeps open and re-uses as required. This improves transfer speed and enables the servers to quickly synchronize changes to bookmarks stored in Opera Mini server. When

952-428: A proxy which compresses and renders the data of web pages before sending it to users. This process helps to load web content faster. The display may be toggled between portrait and landscape mode by keystrokes, or will switch automatically on phones with orientation sensors. The default orientation can be changed. The image quality may be set to "Low", "Medium", or "High". Load times of pages with images are affected by

1020-581: Is expected to be complete in the first half of 2015, at which point Nokia Store will be closed. As stated in the official Opera Software press-release, by February 27, 2012, Opera Mobile Store reached more than 30 million monthly app store visits and over 45 million monthly app downloads. Number of apps in the store has tripled over the year 2013, while the number of monthly visitors to the Opera's app distribution platform grew to 75 million in October, 2013. At

1088-553: Is increased by two to three times as a result. The pre-processing increases compatibility with web pages not designed for mobile phones. However, interactive sites which depend upon the device processing JavaScript do not work properly. In July 2012, Opera Software reported that Opera Mini had 168.8 million users as of March 2012. In February 2013, Opera reported 300 million unique Opera Mini active users and 150 billion page views served during that month. This represented an increase of 25 million users from September 2012. Opera Mini

1156-707: Is not intercepted by the server and works properly. Opera Mini can be configured to choose compression mode automatically. Opera Mini encrypts the connection between the mobile device and the Opera proxy server for security. The encryption key is obtained on the first start by requesting random keys a certain number of times. Opera Mini supports most advanced version of Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol it also supports modern secure ciphers such as AES-GCM and ECC . However, Opera Mini's Extreme mode does not offer true end-to-end security when visiting HTTPS encrypted websites only for data saving purpose. With "Extreme/Mini mode" when visiting an encrypted web page, first

1224-712: The Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on February 27, 2012. In July 2013, developers can now upload apps to both the Yandex Store and the Opera Mobile Store simultaneously, as a result of agreements between the two companies. On November 18, 2014, Microsoft and Opera Software have signed an agreement to replace Nokia Store with the Opera Mobile Store as the default app store for Nokia feature phones, Symbian and Nokia X smartphones. The process of migrating customers from Nokia Store to Opera Mobile Store

1292-542: The Opera Software company launched Opera Mini in 2006, they had over 100 Linux -based proxy servers to handle Opera Mini traffic. From 16 March 2015, Opera Mini's extreme compression mode uses an upgraded version of the Presto layout engine that is included in Opera 12 . Consequently, Opera Mini supports most of the web standards supported in Opera 12. Presto's development has continued for Opera Mini and further support

1360-640: The Turkmentelecom enterprise of Ministry of Communications of Turkmenistan, which says that MTS Turkmenistan will on a monthly basis pay to Turkmentelecom 30% of its net profit derived from operations in Turkmenistan . This agreement is for five years and may be extended another five years subject to some conditions. The company has also been granted GSM and 3G licenses for a three-year term. MTS Turkmenistan in September 2017 faced termination of

1428-542: The JavaScript and returns the revised page to the mobile device. Pop-ups , if not blocked by the JavaScript restrictions, replace the web page being viewed. Opera has published Web content authoring guidelines to assist authors. Opera Mini can run in Turbo and Uncompressed modes, in addition to Mini mode. In Turbo mode, the amount of data transferred is still much reduced by compression, but, unlike Mini mode, JavaScript

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1496-564: The MTS brand were provided by K-Telecom CJSC, under the brand names VivaCell-MTS  [ hy ] (from 2007-2019) and Viva-MTS (from 2019-2024), 80% of which were owned by Mobile TeleSystems. The number of subscribers of VivaCell-MTS in Armenia by March 31, 2011 was 2.55 million. By May 2011, VivaCell-MTS occupied more than 60% of the mobile market in Armenia, and by December 2017, VivaCell-MTS had 2.1 million subscribers. In January 2024, it

1564-455: The Opera Mini's servers decrypt the page, compress it for data saving then re-encrypt it themselves and finally forward it to the destination phone. While browsing a secured site with "High/Turbo mode" or "Uncompressed mode" the connection is not intercepted by the Opera Mini server so that High and Uncompressed modes do not break end-to-end integrity. Opera Mini uses cloud acceleration and data compression technology. Opera Mini servers act as

1632-514: The Opera Mobile Store does not rate applications; instead, the OMS team ether accepts apps submitted for inclusion into the store or rejects them, based on whether their content is appropriate for a wide age group, and keeping objectionable apps out of the store. Opera Mobile Store does not charge developers for joining mobile store's distribution program and publishing apps. Developers get 70% of net revenue from sales of paid apps for Android accepted into

1700-624: The Opera Mobile Store technology and supported by the OMS team. The first carrier to implement app store subscription model for their customers was MTS Russia that launched App Market service together with Opera. In this model mobile users pay a weekly subscription fee for "all-you-can-eat" access after a free seven-day trial period. During 2014 Opera Software launched subscription mobile stores with MTS Russia, MTS Ukraine, MTS Belarus, TIM Brasil and XL Axiata in Indonesia. In May 2013 Opera and Yandex announced together with SlideME and CodeNgo

1768-506: The Opera Mobile Store, and 50% of net revenue for Java apps. Applications are subject to approval by Opera Mobile Store team for basic reliability testing on all the platforms and devices declared by developer in submission process. Opera Mobile Store does not accept adult and sexual content. Every year Opera Mobile Store runs Top Apps Awards. These awards recognize the best apps in the Opera Mobile Store across multiple categories based on popular user voting. In 2013 Opera Mobile Store signed

1836-455: The Opera browser on computers, using the "Opera Sync" service, and can be accessed through web interface at Opera synchronization . The overall share of the Opera family in the mobile Web browser market was about 5.01% in June 2018. Opera Mini relies on data centers processing the Web page before sending it back to the phone in a compressed binary form. Opera Software operates data centers in

1904-594: The United States, Norway, China, Korea, Poland and Iceland. Several mobile network companies pre-install Opera Mini on their mobile phones, including Telenor , AT&T , Vodafone , T-Mobile , KDDI , Omnitel , Pannon GSM , Telefónica Móviles de España and TMN . The following devices were supplied pre-installed with Opera Mini as of August 2007 . Some listed devices only included Opera Mini when bought from certain network operators. While not officially supported on ChromeOS , Vlad Filippov published

1972-441: The action as a "shakedown", but was unable to effectively oppose it, and moved to write down its stake. At the completion of the case in September 2012, the company's assets were seized, and some of its executives sentenced to prison terms. The Russian Foreign Ministry reacted and declared that Russia was concerned about the situation with Mobile TeleSystems’ Uzbekistan subsidiary Uzdunrobita , after Uzbek authorities suspended

2040-502: The amount of data transferred, thereby also increasing speed on slower connections. The functionality of the Mini mode is somewhat different from a conventional Web browser, with the amount of data which has to be transferred much reduced, but with some loss to functionality. Unlike straightforward web browsers , Opera Mini fetches all content through a proxy server , renders it using the Presto layout engine, and reformats web pages into

2108-427: The built-in search bar, a speed dial option, new search engines, and improved navigation. On 1 November 2006, Opera Mini 3 beta introduced secure browsing, RSS feeds, photo uploading and content folding. Content folding works by folding long lists such as navigation bars into a single line that can be expanded as needed. A second beta was released on 22 November, and on 28 November, the final version of Opera Mini 3

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2176-701: The cancellation of its licences by the Supreme Court of India , MTS is present in 9 circles out of 22 telecom circles of India. Media reports suggest that the Russian government was planning to buy a 20% stake in SSTL for about $ 700000 million. MTS India was acquired by Reliance Communications (RCom) on 14 January 2016 in an all-stock deal, in which SSTL received a 10% share in RCom. SSTL was merged into RCom on 31 October 2017. On 31 October 2008, Vodafone announced

2244-639: The capital of the Urent scooter rental service, which provides services in more than a hundred cities in Russia. In Belarus , the MTS trademark renders services of cellular communication and data transmission of "Mobile TeleSystems JLLC". The founders of this company are Beltelecom (51% of shares) and The Russian Mobile TeleSystems OJSC (49% of shares). As of December 2017, MTS had 5.2 million subscribers in Belarus. On 25 July 2012, MTS signed an agreement with

2312-614: The chosen image quality setting. Opera Mini supports only one font, which can be set to "Small", "Medium", or "Large" size. If a web page uses Courier or a generic monospaced font , the one font is still used, but the characters are spaced out so that each character takes up the same amount of space. Opera Mini's address bar is capable of using several pre-configured search engines. The user can add more search engines. The default search engines are Google and Misplaced Pages . Opera Mini supports an ad blocker . When activated, Opera Mini servers try to filter out advertisement before rendering

2380-483: The code to Android, a wrapper was created to translate Java ME API calls to Android API calls. On 16 August 2009, Opera Software released Opera Mini 5.0 beta, which included tabbed browsing, a password manager, improved touch screen support, and a new interface, with a visual Speed Dial similar to the one introduced by Opera Software in their desktop browser. The browser's use of compression and encrypted proxy-based technology to reduce traffic and speed page display has

2448-414: The company serves over 84.9 million subscribers in Russia and Belarus . In May 2006, MTS changed their logo as a part of rebranding campaign performed by their parent company, AFK Sistema PAO . The logo now has two red squares next to each other. The left one, common in form (but not colour) to all AFK Sistema PAO's telecom subsidiaries, contains a white egg which symbolises simplicity and genius, while

2516-513: The construction of the fixed network, the company launched the DVB-C digital television standard in Ulan-Ude , Blagoveshchensk , Ussuriisk and Nakhodka . In November 2013, MTS completely switched to digital TV by connecting new subscribers, ending the connection to analogue television . In March 2019, MTS launched an interactive media platform for cyber athletes and gamers called WASD.TV, and

2584-495: The cost of lower or no compression. Opera Software claims that Opera Mini reduced the amount of data transmitted up to 90% in the mini (extreme) mode; in turbo (high) mode, it reduced amount up to 60%, similar to Google Chrome 's Reduced Data mode. When a user requests a Web page using Opera Mini, the request is sent, via the connectivity used by the device to access the Internet (typically mobile broadband or Wi-Fi ), to

2652-559: The discontinuation of Windows Mobile. Opera Mini uses a server to translate HTML , CSS and JavaScript into a more compact format. It can also shrink any images to fit as the handset screen. This step makes Opera Mini fast. Most Opera Mini versions use only the server-based compression method, with maximal compression but some issues with interactive web apps . Opera Mini can operate in three compression modes: "mini" (or "extreme" on Android versions), "turbo" (or "high" on Android versions) and uncompressed. The turbo and mini modes reduce

2720-508: The end of Q4 2013 Opera Software announced that it has reached a new milestone — 105 million monthly visitors. That is a 172% increase in a year since the close of 2012. The top-three countries in 2013 based on the number of Opera Mobile Store users were India , the United States and Indonesia . By November, 2014 Opera's app store started to offer close to 300,000 mobile apps and games across most mobile platforms. Earlier, in early 2014

2788-400: The evening of July 17. According to the MTS, the suspension could affect millions of Uzbek mobile phone users. An MTS statement said the firm has some 10 million clients among Uzbekistan's population of 28 million. In August 2012, the government of Uzbekistan revoked the company's operating license and arrested several of its top management, citing repeated regulatory violations. MTS protested

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2856-585: The firm for bribery to secure contracts in Uzbekistan. MTS agreed to pay a penalty of $ 850 million. In 2008, Sistema formed 74:26 joint venture with India 's Shyam Group to form Sistema Shyam Teleservices (SSTL), and acquired a pan-India licence to provide CDMA services in the country. In March 2009, SSTL launched the MTS India brand in the state of Tamil Nadu , followed by neighbouring states Kerala and West Bengal in April and May respectively. Following

2924-486: The font size is set to small or very small . Indic and Chinese scripts are supported only if an appropriate font is installed on the device as the default system font. For devices with screens 128 pixels wide or smaller, the default rendering mode is Small-Screen Rendering (SSR). In this mode, the page is reformatted into a single vertical column so that it only needs to be scrolled vertically. Long lists and navigation bars are automatically collapsed (hiding most of

2992-617: The largest Russian mobile and fixed telecommunications brand. Until this purchase, MTS was presented at the fixed telephony market through its subsidiary Moscow City Telephone Network (MGTS). In November 2013, the company has launched the "Home Phone MTS" in Ryazan , Oryol , Kirov , Krasnodar , Rostov-on-Don and Yekaterinburg . The subscription fee for the wired telephone is 100 rubles. Per month, it includes unlimited calls to numbers of local fixed-line operators. The cost of calls to mobile numbers range from 1.1 rubles per minute depending on

3060-522: The launch and provided support for a new open-source One Platform Foundation (OPF) initiative, enabling developers to easily code and submit their apps across multiple alternative app stores. Opera Mini Opera Mini is a mobile web browser made by Opera . It was primarily designed for the Java ME platform, as a low-end sibling for Opera Mobile , but as of 2022 only the Android build

3128-537: The launch of Opera Mobile Store powered by third-party provider. On September 19, 2011, Opera Software acquired app store platform company Handster, which was the leading independent applications store for Android market at that time. Following the acquisition of Handster, Opera Software made a major overhaul since the Opera Mobile Store launch. Opera Software announced a revamped Opera Mobile Store with improved distribution and monetization capabilities for developers, and better customization for white-label marketplaces at

3196-447: The list or bar) by a feature known as "content folding". A plus (+) sign is displayed next to the collapsed content; when clicked, it toggles content folding. Web developers can turn on SSR on the desktop edition of Opera to see how their websites will be displayed on mobile editions of Opera. In SSR mode images are scaled down to no more than 70% of the screen size in either direction. Opera Mini can send content in bitmap image form if

3264-467: The location information provided by the mobile carrier or ISP. Over 86% of the applications for Android-powered phones provided by the Opera Mobile Store are free of charge. The average free-vs.-paid-apps ratio for all platforms is 70% and 30%, respectively. These applications are generally targeted on a particular category, including video games , business applications, social media apps, e-books , and others. On March 8, 2011, Opera Software announced

3332-458: The mass market in the regions. In 2013, Interregional TransitTelekom won a tender held by MTS to provide IPX services, and became one of the service providers for the company in the international telecommunications market. In November 2013, MTS began offering their Russian customers LTE roaming service, after such agreement were signed first with South Korean operator SK Telecom , and then with Saudi Arabia and Great Britain . Along with

3400-532: The mobile operator's license and put a senior official into custody. The dispute, which analysts fear may lead to MTS exiting the market, broke out at the beginning of 2012 when Uzbek authorities launched a near $ 1.3 million back-tax claim against MTS. MTS said in an e-mailed statement that the actions of the Uzbek authorities may be interpreted as “baseless attacks on the business of the Russian investor.” However, in 2019, The United States Department of Justice charged

3468-415: The mobile store offered over 200,000 apps significant growth in the number of apps available. Top 100 apps lists are compiled separately for each country with an Opera Mobile Store presence. The lists feature 17 categories, ranging from business apps to games for every platform supported by the Opera Mobile Store, consisting of the most popular apps among the store users in the selected category. Currently,

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3536-443: The page and sending it to the client phone. Opera Mini has an AI-powered news aggregator , serving personalised news, night mode and private browsing . It can save bookmarks , download files, and web pages for offline reading. It supports streaming and remembers the user's browsing history. If signed into an Opera Account, Saved Bookmarks, Speed Dials, Opened Tabs can be backed up and synchronized between different phones or with

3604-466: The permit to use the dedicated radio frequency spectrum and some other required resources. The provision of communication services to subscribers in Turkmenistan was suspended. As of 2016, MTS-Turkmenistan had 1.7 million subscribers at its peak. Uzdunrobita was the largest mobile phone operator in Uzbekistan in the 1990s and 2000s. Uzdunrobita was founded in 1991, as a joint venture between

3672-532: The public in Moscow . In the same year in June, VimpelCom also started Beeline mobile phone service. MTS, having started Mobile TeleSeratout in the Moscow license zone in 1994, received licenses in 1997 for further areas and began expansion across Russia, later entering other countries of the CIS . In 2009, MTS acquired several independent mobile retail chains, creating MTS monobrand retail network of 3300 stores —

3740-524: The region. Prior to that, in several cities such services are also provided by Comstar, a subsidiary of MTS. During 2012–2013, MTS deployed FTTB network in nearly twenty new cities of the Far East , Siberia , Central , Volga and Ural federal districts. In 2012, MTS launched in cities where the DTV signal standard is DVB-C , and in December 2013, launched a project to provide fixed telephony services to

3808-478: The right square bears the name of the company: МТС (MTS). In 2010, MTS announced acquisition of Sistema Telecom, the owners of the MTS "egg" logo, for $ 380 million, thus becoming the sole owner of the logo. In 2008, the MTS brand was included in the Top 100 World's Most Powerful Brands list by Financial Times /Millward Brown ranking, becoming the most valuable Russian brand. According to this ranking, in 2010 MTS brand

3876-456: The second largest retail network in Russia. Also in 2009 MTS started marketing MTS-branded mobile handsets. In 2010, MTS became the 5th best selling handset brand in Russia, after Nokia , Samsung , LG and Sony Ericsson . In 2010, MTS announced the acquisition of 62% of the stock of Comstar, the biggest Russian fixed internet and cable TV provider with 7.5 million of passed households. Comstar products were re-branded to MTS in 2010, forming

3944-435: The server), the browser must communicate with the server to unpause it. JavaScript will only run for a couple of seconds on the Mini server before pausing, due to resource constraints. On Opera Mini, before the page is sent to the mobile device, its onLoad events are fired and all scripts are allowed a maximum of two seconds to execute. The setInterval and setTimeout functions are disabled, so scripts designed to wait

4012-747: The side effect of allowing it to circumvent several approaches to Internet censorship . Since 20 November 2009, there have been reports from Chinese users that when they use Opera Mini, they are redirected to an error page leading them to download Opera Mini China version. This is almost certainly due to the Chinese government being concerned that users are using Opera Mini to bypass the Great Firewall of China. Opera agreed to route all of their traffic through government servers. In 2009–10: A press release announcing that Indonesia 's Smart Telecom had chosen Opera Mini for their devices said that Opera Mini

4080-526: Was 72nd most valuable brand worldwide with the brand value of $ 9.7 billion. In 2010, MTS also became the most valuable Russian brand according to the Interbrand ranking. In 1994, a joint venture of Moscow City Telephone Network , T-Mobile and Siemens , which later MTS GSM (Mobile TeleSeratout) became part of Mobile TeleSystems (MTS), offered Russia's MTS GSM first mobile phone service "Mobile Telecommunications" (Russian: Мобильные ТелеСвязи ) for

4148-654: Was added for HTML5 input types, CSS Flexbox model, CSS rem units and ECMAScript 5 . However, unlike the desktop edition of Opera, frames are flattened because of client limitations, and dotted or dashed borders are displayed as solid borders due to bandwidth and memory issues. As Opera Mini reformats web pages, it does not pass the Acid2 standards compliance test. Opera Mini supports bi-directional text and can correctly display right-to-left scripts such as Arabic and Hebrew in addition to languages written left-to-right. However, it will not display right-to-left text if

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4216-470: Was added later, and is similar to Mini mode but bypasses compression for interactive functionality, at the expense of less extreme data compression. The turbo and uncompressed modes use the "WebView" on Android and the WebKit layout engine on iOS. The Java ME and Windows Phone versions only have access to the mini compression mode. Other versions can switch between various modes, gaining functionality at

4284-456: Was derived from the Opera web browser for personal computers , which has been publicly available since 1996. Opera Mini was originally intended for use on mobile phones not capable of running a conventional Web browser. It was introduced on 10 August 2005, as a pilot project in cooperation with the Norwegian television station TV 2 , and only available to TV 2 customers. The beta version

4352-564: Was made available in Sweden, Denmark, Norway, and Finland on 20 October 2005. After the final version was launched in Germany on 10 November 2005, and quietly released to all countries through the Opera Mini website in December, the browser was officially launched worldwide on 24 January 2006. On 3 May 2006, Opera Mini 2.0 was released. It included new features such as the ability to download files, new custom skins , more search engine options on

4420-419: Was released. On 7 November 2007, Opera Mini 4 was released. According to Johan Schön, technical lead of Opera Mini development, the entire code had been rewritten. Opera Mini 4 includes the ability to view web pages similarly to a desktop based browser by introducing Overview and Zoom functions, and a landscape view setting. In Overview mode, the user can scroll a zoomed-out version of certain web pages. Using

4488-408: Was still under active development. It had previously been developed for iOS , Windows 10 Mobile , Windows Phone 8.1 , BlackBerry , Symbian , and Bada . Opera Mini requests web pages through Opera Software's compression proxy server . The compression server processes and compresses requested web pages before sending them to the mobile phone. The compression ratio is 90% and the transfer speed

4556-399: Was the default search engine on Opera Mini. On 8 January 2007, Opera Software and Yahoo! announced a partnership to make Yahoo! search the default instead. On 27 February 2008, Opera Software announced that Google would henceforth be the default search engine for Opera Mini and Opera Mobile . A version for the Android operating system was announced on 10 April 2008. Rather than port

4624-522: Was the world's most popular mobile browser, and that Russia and Indonesia were the largest users. An iPhone version was approved for distribution by the Apple App Store on 13 April 2010. On 3 September 2014, Opera started taking registrations for the beta version of Opera Mini for Windows Phone . The browser was released for Windows Phone on 9 September 2014, as a public beta, the first Opera version for Microsoft's mobile platform since

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