Opera Mini & Opera Mobile
Opera has two separate browsers for mobile phones: Opera Mobile and Opera Mini. Here, you can learn about the difference between each product to make the best choice for your needs.
- What are Opera Mobile and Opera Mini?
- Both Opera Mini and Opera Mobile are Internet browsers that allow you to surf the Web from a mobile device.
- What is the difference between Opera Mobile and Opera Mini?
- The main difference is what goes on behind the user interface.
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- Opera Mini always uses Opera’s advanced server compression technology to compress web content before it gets to a device. The rendering engine is on Opera’s server.
- Opera Mobile is a full Internet browser for mobile devices. The full web-rendering engine – Opera Presto – is run on the phone using the phones’ hardware to download and display webpages.
- Which browser is best for me — Opera Mini or Opera Mobile?
- Opera Mobile’s capabilities provide a higher fidelity browsing experience and is ideal when on Wi-Fi or unlimited wireless broadband. With Opera Mini, the assistance of servers make browsing lightning fast and also much cheaper if you are paying per megabyte. Many users use Opera Mobile when on Wi-Fi and Opera Mini when on the move.
Note: Opera Mobile is only available for Android and Symbian smartphones.
Technical specifications
| Opera Mobile 12 | Opera Mini 7 | Opera Mini 4.4 | |
| Get Opera Mobile 12 | Get Opera Mini 7 | Get Opera Mini 4.4 | |
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| Full HTML Internet access |  |
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| Full page overview and zoom | |
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| Opera compression technology | Option in preferences | |
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| Synchronize bookmarks, Speed Dials and other info w/ Opera Link | |
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| Next-generation mobile UI | |
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| Tabs | |
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| Full rendering engine on device | |
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| HTML5 | |
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| Adobe Flash support | Android only * | |
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| Optimized UI for keypad and hybrid devices | |
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| Pinch-to-zoom | |
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| History | |
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| Integrated and customizable search engines | |
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| Bookmarks | |
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| Saved pages for offline viewing | |
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| Find in page | |
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| Fullscreen | |
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| Adjustable text size | |
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| Toggle for loading images | |
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| Privacy management (clear history, bookmarks, cache, etc.) | |
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| Cookie support | |
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| Optimized UI for touchscreen devices | |
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| Speed Dial | |
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| Visual tabs | Touchscreen only | Touchscreen only | |
| Kinetic scrolling | Touchscreen only | Touchscreen only | |
| Download manager | |
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| Predictive text input | |
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| Password manager | |
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| Accelerometer support (for switch to landscape mode) | |
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| Virtual keyboard (touchscreen only) | |
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| Smooth animations in user interface | |
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| Platform and language support | |||
| Supported platforms | Android, Symbian/S60, Windows Mobile (10), Maemo (labs), MeeGo (labs) | Java phones, iOS (7), Android (7), Symbian/S60, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile (5.1) | Java phones, BlackBerry |
| Languages supported in user interface | 40 | 96 | 96 |
| Price | FREE | FREE | FREE |
Partial support; for additional standards support information, read more on the Product Specs page.