Opera Mini has only been available for one year and it has come a long way. In fact, it almost has as many users as the desktop version of Opera! According to Opera there are 10 million active users of Opera Mini with Opera Desktop almost dropping to second place with 12-15 million. I guess that also isn’t bad since Opera Desktop wasn’t free-of-charge until September 20, 2005.
Opera Mini 3.0 has all kinds of great enhancements, and has received a lot of praises for only having been released for two-months. Maybe it is the RSS feed manager or the photo sharing capabilities, but whatever it is they are surely doing it right! Before you go and throw the thing on your phone you should checkout the interactive demo they have available. The site seems to be chugging along a little bit right now because of the birthday excitement, but it should eventually load for you.
Oh yeah, and let’s not forget their giveaway! The first 1000 people who email a birthday greeting to Opera Mini will receive an Opera wrist strap. It might not be the most extravagant gift, but at least they have plenty of them. Here’s what you gotta do to try and get your strap:
Have an idea for an original birthday greeting card? Send it to us! Be it a couple words, image, song or a video, we will post the top five submissions on this page and reward the first 1000 submissions with an Opera wrist wrap. Your email should include:
- Your name
- Full address
- The greeting
And we can’t forget about the Ninja on this special day:
News Source: Opera Watch
If only Operaman could save the iPhone…
Depending on how well Apple develops the iPhone maybe it will be more extendible than we think. We already know it won’t be like the full Mac OS so applications can’t really be installed, but I would think that there would be some way to install other applications. However, Opera probably wouldn’t be free for that device because much like Pocket PC’s they have a mobile version that costs $30 (I think that is how much it is). The browser is really great because I’ve used it on my iPaq before, but after the trial ended I didn’t feel like forking over the money.
There is the Operaman again…wacky cartoon. Well anyway congratulation Opera and keep up the good work.
I love that cartoon. It is one of my favorite “advertising campaigns” by any software company. Opera is very smart because they make the cartoons so funny that it makes people want to put them on their site…and therefore promotes Opera Mini.