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Opera Mini now available in Nordics
October 20, 2005;
Mobile comfort in the cold: Opera Mini beta now available free in the Nordics (Finland is not Scandinavia, so Opera uses "Nordics" term to encompass Scandinavia + Finland).

Opera Software, world leader in cross-platform browser technologies, today released the beta version of the Opera Mini Web browser, free of charge, in Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland. Opera Mini is a Java-based (J2ME) Web browser that enables full Web access on the majority of today's low- and mid-range phones that are normally incapable of running a full Web browser. With Opera Mini, you can start surfing the Web on the handset you have today.

Opera Mini allows users to access the full Web on the 700+ million Java-enabled mobile phones around the world. That includes the vast majority of today's WAP-enabled phones. Instead of requiring the phone to process Web pages, it uses a remote server to pre-process the page before sending it to the phone.

"Opera Mini is simple to use, free, and easily installed on nearly all mobile phones," says Jon S. von Tetzchner, CEO, Opera Software. "With Opera Mini we are really bringing mobile Internet browsing into the mainstream by opening up for mobile Internet access for everyone."

The Opera Mini browser was introduced as a pilot project in Norway on August 10, 2005, to spearhead Norwegian TV station TV2's mobile services. Following the success in Norway, Opera Software is now extending the availibility of Opera Mini to include all the Scandinavian countries as a first step towards full global launch.

Opera offers full customization of Opera Mini to companies, for example operators, broadcasters, mobile content providers, handset manufacturers and the Internet industry. With Opera Mini operators can dramatically increase the average revenue per user (ARPU) across their entire customer base by stimulating the usage of compelling mobile Web services; Mobile content providers can reach the mass market quickly and affordably without having to worry about operator requirements; and handset manufacturers can differentiate their low- and midrange phones to make them more attractive to operators and end-users.

Opera Mini is currently available for download at http://mini.opera.com/, for users in Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland.

For more information about Opera Mini, visit http://www.opera.com/mini/.

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