Opera Mini compressed pages on Opera's servers before sending them to the phone, which made it the most-used mobile browser in the world in 2010, especially on feature phones in India, Indonesia, Russia and Africa. Apple approved it for the iPhone in April 2010, to widespread surprise.
- Vendor
- Opera Software
- Version
- 5
- Released
- March 2010
- Type
- browser
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