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Opera sings its way onto Symbian
WEB BROWSER OUTFIT Opera has made its way onto the Symbian operating system.
According to the company, Opera Mini 5.1 beta has been built specifically for Symbian.
The mobile browser will offer improved fonts, significantly faster start-up time and improved page load performance.
The outfit said that with Symbian being the most popular mobile phone OS it makes sense that its software should run on it.
The native version of Opera Mini for Symbian includes things like Speed Dial for the users' favourite websites, tabbed browsing and an attractive user interface."
Despite doing well on other mobile operating systems, Opera has kept away from the Symbian OS. The only thing that it has managed to get to run was a restricted Java version, and the outfit hopes that a native version will run better.
Christen Krogh, chief development officer for Opera Software said that "porting Opera Mini to the Symbian programming language provides the largest user base in the smartphone world with the best mobile browsing experience."
The free web browser is available for download at Opera's website. µ
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Let me guess,you are from US? :-)
if 40% of the world is 5 people, that means IOS has 1 or maybe 2 people :P Almost half of the world uses symbian, I hope you are not stupid enough to ignore that fact ;)
"Despite doing well on other mobile operating systems, Opera has kept away from the Symbian OS."
Opera Mobile's been out for years on Symbian, it was bundled with the old version of the 6600 which must be 6 or 7 years old.
There's also no real reason to have a Symbian version of Opera Mini as there's a setting in Opera Mobile which makes it use the same compression servers that Opera Mini uses.
The five people that have a Symbian smartphone will be really appreciative.
*high five!*