Opera has published the November statistics for Opera mini, one of the worlds most popular mobile web browser. The number of Opera Mini users more than doubled — from about 16.4 million in November 2008 to 41.7 million in November 2009. This increase shows that their prediction of accelerated growth of the mobile Web has come true. More stats after the break…
Opera today launched the second beta versions of Opera Mini 5 and Opera Mobile 10, available as free downloads. In this second beta release, Opera Mini and Opera Mobile users can now enjoy popular desktop features, such as Opera Link and the Download Manager, from their mobile phones.
With Opera Link, users can synchronize personal browser settings with their Opera desktop browser, as well as all their connected devices, ensuring that their bookmarks, Speed Dial and search engines are always accessible. The Download Manager gives users a better way to control and speed up downloads to mobile phones.
This Twitter application written in Java works with almost all the phones that are available today. The simplest way to install is to open your Java-enabled phone’s web (or WAP) browser and type the following URL: tw.j1ck.com
Features:
All standard functionality: timeline, @mentions, DMs, favorites, following/followers, follow/unfollow, profiles… and of course tweeting!
Simple, no-nonsense interface. Up/Down/Click and using a menu is all you need to know.
Quick Reply / Retweet / Favorite in each tweet
Trending Topics / Saved searches support
Multiple-account support.
Twitpic support: you’ll see the picture without having to navigate over there
Camera support! Take a snapshot from the tweeting form itself and have it automatically uploaded to Twitpic. Great to share where you are in a moment.
Pretty good support for touch-screen phones (we’re testing mainly on Nokia 5800 and Samsung F480)
Support for QWERTY keyboard phones (Nokia E71 is currently our main testing device for this)
Are you tired of the default Opera Mini icon? Do you want to replace the default icon with your own custom icon?Our forum user “z33″ has uploaded some screenshots with a guide in this forum thread on how to replace the default Opera Mini icons with a custom icon!
In this video , Opera Mini 5 beta fights against the default browsers in Symbian, iPhone, Android and Blackberry. Will Opera Mini 5 win the speed test? Check it out after the break…
The Opera Mini 5 beta is now available to download with 4 custom icons. Head over to our Opera Mini 5 forum thread to download the Opera Mini 5 beta with the new icons
Windows Phone 7 Devices including the Nokia Lumia 900, Nokia Lumia 800, Nokia Lumia 710, HTC 7 Surround, Samsung Focus, LG Optimus 7,LG Optimus Quantum, HTC TITAN, HTC TITAN II, HTC Arrive, HTC Radar, HTC Trophy, HTC 7 Pro.