Opera Mini 5.1 for Windows Mobile released, brings accelerometer support

September 9, 2010 | By Surur

Press Release: Looking for a better Windows Mobile browser? Opera today released the improved Opera Mini 5.1 for Windows Mobile. The new update brings better support for high resolution handsets, accelerometer support and the ability to set Opera Mini as the default browser.

Opera Mini 5.1 has already been released for Java, Android and BlackBerry phones. Now available for Windows Mobile 2003 SE, 5.x and 6.x handsets, Opera Mini’s server backbone speeds up browsing while reducing the data transferred to the phone. For users roaming on expensive networks, or with pay-as-you-go data plans, Opera Mini can cut your mobile data bill by up to 90 percent.

Opera Mini 5.1 features many compelling updates, including:

The ability to set Opera Mini as the default browser
Support for devices with high-resolution (high DPI)
Improved page layout and font rendering
Support for auto-rotation
Advanced configuration support for power users

“Opera Mini 5.1 contains several key improvements for the millions of people with a Windows Mobile phone,” said Jon von Tetzchner, Co-founder, Opera Software. “The new Opera Mini is particularly vibrant and really takes advantage of high resolution screens. And, now that you can set Opera Mini as your default browser on a Windows Mobile phone, it is much easier to enjoy the speed boost and data compression. It is our way of making your Windows Mobile phone better.”

Download

Visit m.opera.com with your phone’s default browser, and Opera will automatically select the optimized version for your phone. Opera Mini is free to download and use. Opera Mini works on Windows Mobile 2003 SE, Windows Mobile 5.x and Windows Mobile 6.x phones.

Comment:

It is nice to see continuing support for the large installed base of Windows Mobile from Opera, and it is of note that a client like Opera Mini should work perfectly well on Windows Phone 7 also, so we hope to see them there eventually too.

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Tagged browser, opera, Opera Mini, software, windows mobile

Slayr007

This would only be possible if Microsoft decides to Work with Opera, and that we can never be certain of microsoft's response.

Surur

Are we sure? Opera Mini worked on java handsets, so I believe they do not need deep access to the OS to make it work. Skyfire needs even less access for example, essentially in the older version just rendering a video stream.

GP007

If the MIE team updates the browser on WP7 a few months after phones go out and IE9 is done or close to it then I don't really care about other browsers on the OS personally. That said though an Opera mini/Skyfire type browser should be duable since all those are are front ends and not full mobile browsers themselves.

Lennard

a front end is easily done in silverlight, and thats how I know we'll be seeing proxy browsers like Opera mini in the marketplace in no time.

however, I woke up this morning and saw the link in my inbox so i read up on the press release and went downloading. I've been done with opera10 as it's too power hungry and went back to the latest opera9.7+multi-touch. checking this out and it's pretty fast..I like how it links to the external streaming app when playing flash videos and not in the browser. scrolling is super smooth…I wish there was a way to tweak opera mini as I can with opea9.7 though….miss the mulit-touch zoom…but I sort of see me using mini and not going back to opera9.7 or 10 for a while now. unless they update 10 to be much better.

David

Just Downloaded this Opera Mini and Man does thins thing rocks….I was happy with the older beta version and now with this one that has landscape suportt, i don' t see me going back to the Opera 9 or any other
Hatorade

Damn this browser rocks!!!! Slick and fast, better than anything out there IMO
sonus

ZOOM! Opera, why oh why did you kill off ZOOM implementations!????

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