Opera Mini: Blessing for Mobile
Sarah’s award for #1 best mobile web browser (killer features & super fast): Opera Mini. I’ve been using it for a while now, and I’m loving it. You can get Opera for iPhone, Android, or Blackberry.
Opera loads pages 5 times faster than the internal browser on my Android phone, about 3 times faster than Dolphin or Steel (two other alternative browsers). It has a wonderful navigation bar, a small Google search toolbar *sweet*, offers a nice start page, great bookmark management & syncing (waaaaaaaa!), good download management, and even a suggest-as-you-type feature in the address bar (nowhere else can you get that, baby). Go Opera!
Also, if you don’t have a flat bandwidth rate (e.g. you’re paying by the megabyte on your data plan), then you actually need Opera because it will save you money. From their website:
Opera Mini uses only a tenth of the bandwidth of other browsers, compressing Web pages by up to 90%. On Opera Mobile, turning on Opera Turbo compresses data up to 80% or leave Opera Turbo off to get full Web site data, as you would on a PC.
Try Opera Mini out if you haven’t yet. Just give it a chance for a week, and then you can yell at me if I’m wrong. After trying 3 other browsers, I thought it couldn’t be that different. But Opera was different, and I’m glad I found it 
April 22nd, 2010 at 6:04 pm
Sarah: Your link to Opera Mini isn’t working!
April 22nd, 2010 at 7:38 pm
Agree that Opera Mini saves bandwidth, and could therefore be a good choice for some, but be aware that it renders some pages improperly that otherwise work well in your phone’s Webkit browser and that its compression can to junky looking images, which may or may not be important to you. Most disturbing though, is the fact that all traffic to your phone (including any secure sites you visit) is routed through and temporarily stored on Opera’s servers, which is where they perform the compression.
April 23rd, 2010 at 8:02 am
Along the lines of what Dave is saying: http://www.healthcareitsquad.com/apple-opera-mini-exposed-medical-records/
April 23rd, 2010 at 9:53 am
Not sure what version of Opera it is using, but my DSi does use the Opera browser. It uses 2 screens, so Id guess it is a custom version. I think the Wii arso uses Opera.
April 23rd, 2010 at 11:41 am
Link fixed — sorry!