For those who have internet capabilities on there phone, its not always easy to access certain web pages or even look at them through the default browser that came on your phone. As for many, Internet explorer is the pre-installed one. A nice little browser with almost same features as its full desktop version. Only problem is, if its not a mobile web page its difficult to view it. Often its even harder to do certain things. Like replying to messages on myspace, logging into other sites, or just reading the web. Well with Opera mini, it just got easier. With first features describing full web experience on a mobile device. Such things it offers is compressed web pages for easy loading and less data use. That also means less battery use for those who battery isn’t always the as long as we would like it to be. Other features include sync bookmark capabilities, virtual mouse, small screen rendering, and easy zoom capability for reading quickly.

To start off, your mobile device needs JAVA to run Opera Mini. Make sure you have that before you run to download it. There are Java emulators for phones that are not capable of running or being able to install Java. We will go over on how to install a java emulator later. Alright so once i installed Opera after having to do it through an emulator because my Motorola Q doesn’t have nor install java.

So I load Opera up and notice it does take a bit longer to load being at least 5-7 seconds. Once it is loaded it has pre bookmarked links such as New York Times webpage, myspace and a few others. I try out myspace and it takes a few seconds to load but cause of the compression but faster than it normally would on IE. Once it does load i can view the whole page without having to scroll a lot like i would on IE. A nice feature that IE doesn’t have is the compression and virtual mouse. Which is also the zoom feature. Even though each page is compressed, once you zoom it is expanded and easy to read. Mypsace was very nice looking and i was also able to reply to messages, With opera mini it optimizes web pages for easy viewing on your phone. For Blackberry users it even integrates for full native use and look. Opera mini also has shortcut buttons for easier access. Only thing is remembering them. For me as a Motorola Q user, i have to press a third button for characters for the shortcuts. So it just made it harder for me. You can also change the way it looks on your phone screen. You can either view opera landscape or portrait, which landscape mode made it harder for user ability even though it looked better, so keep that in mind. Scrolling on my Q is easy already, but Opera has even a power scroll feature by pressing either 2,4,6, and 8 for quicker scrolling. Which can be useful on longer text. Another feature of Mini allows you to disable the loading of images. Which can save loading times, data use and essentially saves battery life. Which is one of the main reasons I switched to Opera Mini in the first place.

Well, if you looking for a better web mobile experience with faster loading times, less data use and and overall more battery life out of your smartphone/pda, then check out http://www.operamini.com/demo/?url=brokenzero.com to simulate the Opera Mini experience, then go http://www.operamini.com/ either from your computer or directly on your mobile phone to download it.

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