We get quite a few questions about the difference between Opera Mobile 10 and Opera Mini 5. This post will attempt to clarify.
NB! Unless you have a Windows Mobile or Symbian/S60 phone, Opera Mobile is not available for you to download to your phone. Enjoy Opera Mini!
First, here is what they have in common:
- Both are based on the same core technology, the Opera Presto browser engine (just like Opera for desktop).
- Both use the same cross-platform user interface, providing similar features and browsing experience.
And the difference:
- In Opera Mini, the Opera Presto browser engine is located on a server. In Opera Mobile, it is installed on your phone.
When you enter a Web address in Opera Mobile, the Web page is fetched directly from the Web server to your phone. However, the Opera Mini client sends a request to the Opera Mini server, which downloads the page from the Internet. The server then transcodes the page before it is forwarded to the client in a lightweight mark-up language designed specifically for this purpose.
The advantage is that the Opera Mini client can be much smaller and work on more basic phones than the full Opera Mobile browser.
On the other hand, Opera Mini depends on a server while Opera Mobile does not. (Opera Turbo is an optional service for Opera Mobile that compresses Web pages and makes it cheaper to browse, but it is not required).
In practical terms, here is what that means for you:
- Opera Mobile will render Web pages just like a desktop browser. In Opera Mini, there may be slight differences, and very complex Web pages may not work optimally.
- Opera Mini will generally be faster. It downloads less content and requires less CPU to render pages.
- Opera Mini works on almost any phone. Opera Mobile is only available for Windows Mobile and Symbian/S60 phones.
Which product is best for you depends on your personal preferences and the sites you browse. Many advanced users will have both browsers installed and alternate depending on the situation. For example, they will use Opera Mobile when on Wi-Fi, Opera Mini when on a cellular network.
Another reason why Opera Software has both products in the portfolio is that many of our operator and handset manufacturer customers have very specific requirements. The differences between the products may be extremely important to them. For example, Opera Mobile is generally preferred by handset manufacturers for preinstallation on mobile phones.
Today we release a new beta of Opera Mobile 10. And for both Windows Mobile and Symbian/S60 at the same time! Our new cross-platform UI framework enables us to provide the same features and browsing experience on both platforms. Read more on www.opera.com/mobile. Or download it at www.opera.com/mobile/download/.
The main improvements from the previous betas are:
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- Opera Link
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- UI is more finger-friendly on touch devices
- Possible to manage search engines
- Opera remembers page position and zoom state when moving in history
- Column snapping also on touch
- Better memory management
- Fix for mobile view crash
- Start page available from touch menu
- Lots of minor bug fixes
- Clear cache setting
Windows Mobile (only):
- Asks whether to set Opera as default browser on install
- Fix for crash on startup (occurred on some devices due to encoding in bookmarks that were imported)
- Shortcut support
Known issues include:
S60:
- To view Asian languages Web pages you must download the "International version". This includes extra fonts which take approx 3Mb space after installation. See this blog post for more information.
- Only phones with Asian language packs will show Asian characters in the user interface (bookmarks etc)
- Known exceptions: Thai, Hindi (no support for Thai, Hindi glyphs in UI elements regardless of build used)
- Only partial IME (Input Method Editor) support
- Soft keyboard is shown even though hard keyboard is slid out and in use
- Canceling a connection request does not work (dialogue will pop up again indefinitely)
- Crash if you use system edit (platform input method) instead of default on facebook.com (probably also other sites)
- No plug-in support (e.g. Flash)
- You must click connect twice to use Opera Dragonfly
Windows Mobile:
- Non-Touch devices are not supported (Smartphone profile)
- No plug-in support (e.g. Flash)
- Some input method editors â??IMEâ? (hard and soft phone keyboards) are known not to work well with Opera because they do not comply with Microsoft’s SIP and/or IME standard. When such an editor is detected by Opera, Opera will use a known (default) input method instead. An exception is EzInput v1.5, where the phone keypad and compact QWERTY, ABC mode doesn’t work, but the rest of the modes work fine. We recommend upgrading to EzInput v2.0 to avoid this.
- Many IME’s (Input Method Editor) will override the Opera shortcuts
- Certain HTC devices with TouchFLO will force Opera back to portrait mode if visiting home screen when Opera is in landscape.
- On older WM 5.0 Devices with 480×800 resolution, switching between portrait and landscape may cause display errors. This is due to lack of support for this resolution in early versions of Microsoft’s driver.
- You must click connect twice to use Opera Dragonfly
Finally, Opera Mini 5 beta 2 is here! …
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Yesterday afternoon, a minor upgrade of the servers was made to fix an issue reported by our users (http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=276540). The new version is 4.9.516.
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During a team building session in Poland last week the Mini server team decided to put more ressources in telling the community about server upgrades and relevant changes. The main channel for this information will be this (the Opera Mini) blog.
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Opera Mini 4.2 final for Android is now available in Android Market.
We are happy to announce that Opera Mini 4.2 for Android has reached it's final version. Thanks for your feedback, both in our
forum, and through our
bug wizard.
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- Now you can upload and download files through Opera Mini and save pages for offline viewing
- Videos will be redirected to the system's video player
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- Inline URL entry instead of using native input
- Fixed password text entry to hide characters
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Hi everyone,
I'm Helene, and I work as a project manager in the Windows Mobile team at Opera Software. We are a dedicated team working with developing the Opera Mobile browser for Windows Mobile touchscreen devices.
My group works with the consumer product and new feature development in particular, and we are excited about the opportunity to focus on new technology and our end users. We're happy to announce our upcoming release:
Opera Mobile 9.7 Beta for Windows Mobile touchscreen devices.
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The Opera Mobile 9.7 Beta will include the following great features:
- Improved rendering engine
Opera Mobile 9.7 Beta uses the Presto 2.2 rendering engine, which will also be used in the Opera 10 desktop browser. Presto 2.2 offers faster page loading, and we're excited to use this state-of-the-art rendering engine and be at the forefront of standards support with 100/100 on Acid 3.
- Opera Turbo
Finally we can show you Opera Turbo on mobile! Opera Turbo accelerates the browsing experience by reducing bandwidth consumption up to 80%. Many of you will be familiar with Opera's compression technology from using Opera Mini, and with Opera Mobile 9.7 you'll get the best of both worlds - a full-fledged browser with extra Turbo capabilities. It's not the full version of Opera Turbo yet (yes, that's a Beta feature in a Beta release), but we couldn't wait to show you this cool feature.
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- OpenGL ES
Hardware acceleration with OpenGL ES support, ensuring smoother scrolling, panning and a more fluid user interface.
Also, we've tried to iron out some of the major issues with the 9.51 Beta, among other things:
- Installation on storage card is now possible, and the Beta happily coexists with preinstalled versions of Opera Mobile.
- Better IME support (although a lot of non-standard 3rd party IME applications still make this a difficult task).
- Better performance and feedback when clicking links.
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We look forward to sharing this great product with you, so stay tuned :)
PS: If you're in Las Vegas during CTIA, make sure to drop by the Opera booth (6724 in Central Hall) to test out a preview of Opera Mobile 9.7.
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We hope you all enjoy Opera Mini on Android as much as we do!
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Our core department has released a new version of Opera Presto which contained support for Opera Turbo, more advanced web standards, Gears and several other improvements. We wanted to make this available to our users as soon as possible, and chose to upgrade the core version in Opera Mobile. Updating the browser core is a big step forward for us, and it felt natural to change the version number.
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With regards to Symbian S60, I can only tell you that we're working on it.. but I'll also add that it's really awesome, and we can't wait to let you guys play with it :cool:
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