Opera reveals details of Opera Mini 6 and Opera Mobile 11

WEB BROWSER OUTFIT Opera has revealed more details about its mobile Mini 6 and Opera Mobile 11 web browsers.

The mobile web browsers are part of Opera's campaign to attract punters who have bought smartphones and tablets. To that end, it has added a number of user interface features to them.

Opera has tweaked its Mini 6 and Mobile 11 browsers for mobile devices and claims they include better scrolling, panning and zooming.

It has added multi-touch pinch and zoom for devices that support pinch gesture control. In a nod to the social notworking world, Opera has added an instant 'share' button to provide mobile users with quick access to their social networking websites. It has also optimised the web browsers' user interfaces for tablets.

Opera Mini is a cut down version of the Opera Mobile browser, so punters still won't get HTML5.

Opera Mini 6 is compatible with J2ME, Android, BlackBerry and Symbian/S60 phones. The Opera Mobile 11 browser works on Android, Symbian and, in lab releases, Windows 7 desktop, Meego and Maemo.

However, neither version is out on any of Apple's devices yet. However, Opera has said it is going to preview a version of Opera Mini on the Iphone and Ipad, so it's possible that the company is working on an Opera web browser release for IOS. µ