I was first put onto this baby in a bar about a year back. It was in some happening spot in town where the guys where flashing cash and the girls were all in another leaugue. The one dude in our group was transfixed with his phone, eventually I went to see who the hell he was continuously smsing.
He wasn't texting at all, but was getting live updates of the world cup soccer from some news site. Pretty soon there were two of us staring at the screen, and from that moment on, I was an Opera Mini convert.
It's a simple, yet brilliant concept. You download their Java application onto your handset.
When you run Mini, you tell it what website address you want to view. The central Opera server then fetches the site, condenses it down to fit onto your phone and sends it to you. They throw out useless stuff like adverts, big images and even some frames and you only get the info.There's even a handy tracker on the bottom screen to show how much data is being loaded (with R2/Mb its 1 cent for every 5kb used).
Of course it's not as handy as using a browser on your pc, but there are many positives.
You can take the web with you anywhere your phone will go.
It's cheap, at R2/Mb it might not sound good, but there is no minimum usage or connection fees.
Everything is compressed, making it quick(ish) and(once again)....cheap.
Somethings won't work, like flash based animations, but I have even succeeded with things like viewing photos from speeding fines.
I've been using the original version 3.1, and have tried the Beta of version 4. It's a little bit confusing and switches zooms the whole time, so the tried and tested gets used more.
How do you get it?
Well firstly you need your GPRS(or other data capability) to be active. This you can find out from your network's website. If you can send and receive MMS then its working.
Point your phone's browser to:www.operamini.com and download the application.
It runs you through a setup process and then bob's your uncle.
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