The best mobile web browser yet

I have to agree with Russell Beattie - Opera Mini is certainly the best mobile web browser yet. It seems to be compatible with just about every mobile phone from the last few years and its working beautifully on my Nokia 6630. I've set a number of RTE's Aertel pages as homepage bookmarks and because of whatever snazzy compression they're doing on the proxy it only takes 5kb to access the TV listings. As Beattie observes -

"I expect huge things from this - it could even become its own platform. I bet you could easily base a new web-based business around this browser, it’s that good."

Absolutely. I'm already dreaming up business plans based around the simple (but incredibly powerful) idea of 100% of the Irish population having access to the web as opposed to the current 40% (or thereabouts). Therefore I'd love to know how Mini works on a range of phones. If you try it out please let me know what phone you have and how well it works.

Comments

[Dave]

I tried it out on my k750 last night but it's not working for me. I'll have to play around with it some more in a minute.

[Paul Power]

I've tried it out on my 6680 and had some initial problems setting it up untill I went the PC route, downloaded the .jar to my PC and installed that via Nokia Application Installer.

So far so good, definitly renders my own blog better than normal Opera 8 on the same phone. It does seem to significantly reduce the data ( and hence costs ) it pulls across the network .. I'll have to look at that a bit closer.

[James Corbett]

Thanks for the feedback lads. Yes I was amazed too Paul with the degree to which it reduced page size. For example, Aertel pages were going from about 30k down to 5k. Dave, keep us updated please....

[Peter]

Opera Mini is working wonderfully on my Nokia 3230. It was the fastest mobile GPRS browser I've ever seen.