Opera Software today announced the world-wide release of Opera Mini, the full Web browser that runs on almost every mobile phone, including low- and mid-end handsets.
The global launch follows the trials of Opera Mini in the Nordics and in Germany during the fall of 2005, which resulted in a user base of over one million people. Opera Mini is available free-of-charge via WAP download, or for a small fee via SMS.
The first trial of Opera Mini was launched in Norway in August 2005, and Michael Gartenberg, vice president and research director, Jupiter Research, called it "a really big breakthrough for the mobile space." Opera now also offers c