Opera Mini 3 review

Browsing web pages on most mobile phones is like trying to cross Europe on a Space Hopper - slow and very uncomfortable. Opera Mini makes surfing the web truly practical, from the most basic of GPRS handsets through to 3G smartphones. It achieves this by pre-rendering web pages on Opera's servers, stripping out bandwidth-hogging Flash animation, resizing images and formatting text for the small screen. The results aren't always perfect, but for checking a review on www.pcpro.co.uk while you're out shopping or catching up on a blog on the train it's magnificent. Version 3 includes support for RSS feeds and photo blogging, while navigation is improved by nesting cumbersome menus.

Author: Barry Collins