Opera Mini Browser - A Better Browser for your Motorola Q

Opera mini is an alternative browser to the installed Internet Explorer (IE) browser standard on Windows Mobile.

The first thing you will need in order to install this browser is a java tool. I use Esmertec JBed which can be found here.

Install this and then go to the Opera mini website. Install as per normal procedure.

The first thing you will notice with this browser as compared to IE is the noticeable increase in speed of surfing and by pressing the back button, you notice an almost instantaneous return to the previous page.

Version 4 of Opera mini offers the ability to view your page in portrait or landscape mode with the pressing of 2 buttons.

Opera offers an excellent online interactive demo here to show you exactly how the browser will run on your phone.

Images here taken from the Opera mini demo page.

Also of note is the handling of viewing images. The browser has a zoom function which allows you to see the image in full screen or in a closeup.

The browser does allow skinning so you can adjust the appearance.



Overall Opera mini wins on almost all categories over IE for me with the only exception of having to load the Java app as an extra button press to load it.