Opera Mini dives into Helio’s Ocean

by Alex Zaharov-Reutt

Friday, 21 March 2008

Page 1 of 2 ! Not content with just having one of the world’s best free mobile phone browsers available for virtually any modern cellphone, Opera are doing deals with major mobile manufacturers to have Opera Mini as an official alternative, with Helio being their first US phone customer. If you’ve got any relatively modern mobile phone and you’re unsatisfied with its browser, you’ve got to try Opera Mini version 4, a browser that millions of people use everyday.  Rendering web pages in desktop style on small screens, and letting easily you zoom in to read the slightly reformatted text (which fits nicely onto mobile phone screens), Opera Mini actually makes browsing the Internet on a mobile phone a much more enjoyable experience, blowing away the poor excuses for browser that most – but not all – mobile phones offer today. Exceptions are of course the iPhone’s Safari browser, which can’t at this stage have any competing browsers loaded onto it, while the browser found on most Nokia smartphones is also quite excellent – with Opera Mini still giving Nokia’s browser a serious run for its money. But for most other brands of phones, Opera Mini is mobile web surfing salvation – and it’s free. Now Opera has decided to tackle the US market head on by doing a deal with Helio, whose dual sliding, iPhone-competing ‘Ocean’ model has just received a specially tailored version of Opera Mini. The Helio Ocean is a ‘mobile communications device’ (don’t call it a phone, say Helio) that offers many more features than the iPhone, including two keyboards – one numeric keypad that slides down when the Ocean is vertical. Turn the Ocean horizontal, and a QWERTY keyboard slides out – totally separate to the numeric keypad for more intense messaging. It’s a 3G device, with a 2.4-inch screen and plenty more, but has no touch interface nor the 3.5-inch screen of the iPhone. iPhone users will say that the Ocean is still no real threat, and they might be right, but compared with many other phones on the market, the Ocean has certainly caused some waves. Opera have specially customised the Opera Mini browser for the Helio Ocean, which can be freely downloaded from the Helio’s web portal, with Opera saying that “Opera Mini makes browsing on the Ocean even more fun and addictive with anelegant desktop-like experience that lets the user dive into the page to access the content they want.” Continuing on the benefits, Opera says that: “At the same time, Opera Mini serves pages at lightning speed so it will not slow down the on-the-go mobile experience to which Helio members are accustomed.”   Please read onto page 2. << First page <   1 2 Next page > Last page - Post your comment >>

 

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