Opera Mini overview

Opera Mini 4 is a cutting edge web browser for mobile phones - it is the consumer version of Opera Mobile, the most widely-deployed advanced mobile web browser. Unlike many phone-based browsers, it works on most modern phones, from the top of the range smart phones to fashion phones and low end models. All that is required to run Opera Mini is a Java Virtual Machine (JVM). Due to Opera's lean and efficient code-base, and Opera Mini's server based pre-formatting, it can display web pages that were built using regular web technologies designed for desktop based browsers (other mobile browsers that work on low end handsets require special WAP content or the mobile profiles of HTML and CSS, which isn't an ideal solution.)

Web pages are rendered on the Opera Mini servers, which compile the web page into a compressed binary that is sent to the Opera Mini client.