Posts Tagged ‘Opera MIni’

Google News Site Optimized for Opera Mini on Feature Phones

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If you were asked which mobile web browser is one of the most used in the world, Opera Mini would probably not be one of the answers you would offer up. And, yet, it is used by so many millions of people using feature phones that Google redesigned their news website (news.google.com) to be optimized for this browser.

New Google News for Opera Mini

The redesigned site now includes 70 editions in 29 languages in a format optimized for Opera Mini. Opera Mini is available for smartphones too. You can determine if there is a version for your smartphone by visiting:

http://www.opera.com/mobile/

Battle of the Indie App Stores: GetJar Ejects Opera Mini

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Opera just announced that it will be launching a mobile app store of its own that will feature around 140,000 free and paid apps for mobile platforms like Android and BlackBerry. The folks at Opera might not have even taken a breather from pushing this news out to thousands of media publications and we are hearing chatter that GetJar, one of the largest independent app store has ejected Opera Mini from its store.

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