A smartphone with Opera Mini is more than a smartphone / Opera's blog

What is the difference between a smartphone and a regular phone? Yes, it’s more powerful, more productive, more functional, larger in size ... But in fact, the “smart” prefix means something else: such devices allow us to make our work on the network more convenient and complete due to the ability to install applications that simplify and sometimes optimize desktop-like work with your favorite services, cutting off everything superfluous and leaving only what is really important. This is great, but can this property of smartphones be improved yet? We thought we could.

Introducing the new Opera Mini 7.5 for Android smartphones. By tradition, the new version contains many corrections and improvements, but nevertheless the main thing, because of which the number “grew” immediately by a tangible figure, we added a new function that fundamentally changes both the style of work with Opera Mini and the functionality of the browser. Now it will be possible to not complicate life by searching and installing additional applications - it is quite possible that the functionality you are looking for is already in your browser! A new function is called - Start Page.

In fact, users of regular phones using the Java version of Opera Mini 7 are already familiar with this feature, but now it’s the turn to rejoice at the owners of more advanced devices, so let's briefly get acquainted with the capabilities of the Start page. It contains several sections, the most interesting of which became:

Social networks

Here you will receive operational updates of events occurring in the social networks you use. Connect your accounts on Vkontakte, Facebook or Twitter to find out about new events in one place without having to visit multiple web pages.

news

It receives news from a variety of resources that you frequently visit. If your favorite websites have RSS feeds, the browser will automatically connect them to this section and collect the latest news from the sources you are interested in, all in one place.

Recommended links

This section contains a categorized list of resources that you may find useful. This list is generated automatically depending on the country in which you use your smartphone - we tried to collect all the popular local resources here.

That, in short, is all. Yes, it remains to add that the classic Express panel also does not disappear anywhere - it is still available next door to the Start page. Moreover, if you do not need new features and you want to use only the Express panel, you can easily disable the Start page in your browser settings.

As usual, you can download the new version of Opera Mini 7.5 for Android from m.opera.com or from Google Play.

For dessert - a short video demonstrating new features.


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