Today, Opera Software released the final version of its much-anticipated Opera Mini 4.2 for mobile phones. This release also marks Opera Mini’s official availability on the latest version of the Android mobile platform. A technical preview of Opera Mini was previously released for an earlier version of Android in April 2008. Opera Mini 4.2 adds more language versions and offers added skin selections to personalize the look and feel of the browser. Opera Mini is renowned for its speed, as data is compressed before it is sent to the phone. This helps to keep end-user costs low, since the data delivered is kept to a minimum.


“With Opera Mini 4.2, we are showing the world that Opera never gets complacent. We will always be improving our product, adding speed, new functionality and features, and ensuring that it is accessible by all,” says Jon von Tetzchner, CEO, Opera Software. “Our support of the Android platform helps fulfill our mission to be available on more platforms, for more devices and reach more users, anywhere in the world.”

Upon downloading Opera Mini 4.2, mobile phone users will experience:

* More than 90 language versions, including the recently added Amharic, Armenian, Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Kirghiz, Lingala, Marathi, Malayalam, Mongolian, Oriya, Punjabi, Pashto, Sinhala, Tajik, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu, Uzbek, Khmer, Kashmiri, Lao and Turkmen
* Funky new skins for personalizing the look of Opera Mini
* Opera Link support for notes, allowing users to sync their notes between the PC and Opera Mini
Improved real time streaming protocol (RTSP) handoff. This increases the number of phones with support for mobile video.

Opera Mini 4.2 is ready and waiting for download at http://www.opera.com/mini/. Sprint Instinct users will have to upgrade their firmware here to use the new Opera Mini 4.2

Labels: Opera Mini

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