Opera has released a beta of the new version of Opera Mini, a mobile phone browser.

A free download from the Opera website, Opera Mini 4 is the latest product in the family that already has 15 million users worldwide.

According to Christen Krogh, vice president of engineering at Opera, Opera Mini 4 is not meant to adapt the web for the mobile phone, but to put "the internet as you know it" on your handset.

Rather than show websites in a specially adapted small-screen format, it presents the sites as you would see them on a PC, allowing you to zoom in and out.

Krogh also emphasised that Opera Mini 4 isn't a high-end application only intended for the latest handsets. Indeed, it'll work on any Java-enabled mobile phone.

In a demonstration at the Web User offices, web pages loaded quickly using a GPRS (general packet radio service) connection.

However, it isn't suitable for all websites - Google Maps did not work in the demonstration, for example.

Source:→ Web User UK

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