New Opera Mini for Java and BlackBerry

We have a new version of Opera Mini for Java and BlackBerry phones (BlackBerry OS). We’ve been working on this one for a long time. The last time we had a blog post about Opera Mini was for version 4.5 and we got chocolate cake then. Still not sure how we’ll celebrate this one, but marzipan cake is very popular here in Norway. Enough talk about sweets. Here are the real treats:


Yup, Opera Mini 8 comes with a brand-new design. We think it looks pretty good.

Select private browsing if you want to be private. 
Staying up late? Turn on night mode to dim your phone’s display. We’ve listened to your requests — now, you have a better way to browse at night. This is especially helpful for those with devices that don’t support automatic dimming.


Date posted: Mar 12, 2014 Author: Christian Uribe48 CommentsOpera for Android: Super comfy browsing

It works flawlessly. Video chatting is quick and easy with Opera browser’s WebRTC support. Sites like appear.in are great examples for this technology, if you want to test it out.

It’s up to you. Choose phone, classic or tablet view and change how your Opera browser looks.

Group the websites you visit the most into Speed Dial folders.

New look and feel

Private browsing

Night mode

Accessing tabs on phones with keypads Tab access has also improved for phones with keypads. Try it out: push the arrow up button to get a new tab. Here are other shortcuts that you can use in Opera Mini: 

Last, but not least: Opera Mini gives you a lot of data savings We call Opera Mini the “King of Compression”. Our browser can help you save up to 90% of your data usage. The data usage overview has also been given a facelift, with more details how we save you data. Take a look: