Opera Mini 4.0 now out

The favoured browser for mobile phones, now has a new version out. Opera Mini, the “cut-down” version of the popular web browser for desktops (Opera), has just been revamped with version 4.0, which improves the user interface, and adds a host of new features.

Some of the new features in Opera Mini 4 are the virtual mouse, the ability for the program to load full-sized web pages (and quite quickly at that) as well as landscape view, which sort of turns your mobile into a “mini PC”.

I’ve been running Opera Mini 3, and it was giving me quite a few problems. I see that this new version has addressed them, and, what I like about it the most, I think, is its ability to load pages far quicker that my old version 3.

Yesterday (Sunday) I received a message at the top of Opera Mini 3 to let me know that the new version is available. I clicked “upgrade” and was pleasantly surprised at the ease of the installation.

I’ve been using the beta version of 4.0 for a while, but I didn’t seem to like it that much (hence me reverting to the then stable version 3). But I see that Opera Software has significantly sorted out many of the issues of the beta version in the stable release of version 4.0.

I use a Nokia N73 mobile, and so I’m able to take advantage of the new “landscape” mode which makes web pages look like they would be on my desktop PC. However, I don’t always use this feature, as I’m quite used to the regular “Mobile view” (shows you how long I’ve been a Mini fan for, eh!?)

Another cool feature is the context menu that opens up when you press “1″ on your mobile’s keypad. This opens a context menu similar to the one you get when you right-click somewhere on a webpage on a desktop PC.

Overall, I think that this new version of Opera Mini rocks! It creates seemless integration between browsing on your desktop to browsing on your phone, and is certainly an excellent product to use if you, like me, are addicted to the Internet and it’s awesome services (i.e. Facebook!)

You can download Opera Mini by pointing your mobile phone’s wap-browser to mini.opera.com. To learn more about Opera Mini, visit the official website at: www.operamini.com.

When you do download Opera Mini 4, then why not bookmark TechZone, and set it to your speed dial? To do this, click on “Bookmarks” from the Start Page, and then click on “Speed-dial”. Select a position to place the T|Z bookmark, and enter the following into the “Address” field: http://www.tech-zone.co.nr/ Once done, click on the link below that says “Fetch title and icon…”, wait for a few seconds, click save and voila!

Here’s some screenshots of Opera Mini 4.0: