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Ultrabrief: Opera Mini 5 Beta, written as a native Windows Mobile app, released today

By: , IntoMobile
Thursday, March 4th, 2010 at 1:59 AM

Opera Mini, a 3rd party browser that uses remote servers to compress websites before delivering them to your phone, started out as a Java application. It actually still is, but that’s slowly starting to change as of today. Opera has just launched Opera Mini 5 Beta [read my review here] as a native Windows Mobile application. To grab it just point your WinMo 5 or 6 based device to m.opera.com/next and follow the instructions.

I’m desperatly waiting for Opera Mini 5 Beta to hit Android. Opera Mini 4 looks absolutely terrible on my Nexus One. Browsing the internet on my mobile phone was hell during my brief 45 day stay in America, but now that I’m back in Finland, on super high speed networks, it’s much more tolerable. It’s still not as fast as Opera Mini was on my E71 though.

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Stefan Constantinescu

Stefan Constantinescu (@WhatTheBit on Twitter) has loved technology since as far back as he can remember. It started with computers, but in the past few years his passion has turned to mobile devices. As a mobile phone enthusiast who lives and breathes devices that connect to the internet, he knows he is not alone with this radical fascination of all things wireless. He is strongly opinionated and enjoys a good debate so leave comments in his posts and he’ll get back to you! Stefan began blogging as a hobby in the fall of 2006 and joined IntoMobile in the summer of 2007. Later he got a job at Nokia in March 2008, but as of June 2009 he has rejoined the IntoMobile team. He is currently based out of Helsinki, Finland.