Opera Software has always been an absolute protagonist in the browser market, providing different alternatives than Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer, both for PC and mobile phones. Speaking of the latter, in the mobile market, one of the most popular and oldest browsers by far is Opera Mini, still a different browser than usual, which has as its objective to save data to the maximum.
Opera Mini is one of the best and most interesting browsers for surfing the internet from the small screen of an Android smartphone or tablet and an iPhone, even if it is not the only browser app that Opera provides.
For Android only, there is also Opera Browser, a complete browser that has the main feature of displaying the news of the day on its main page.
First of all let's see what is the difference between Opera Browser and Opera Mini .
Mainly, these are two different browsers, very similar graphically but which use a different engine.
For Opera on Android, the browser engine is located on the mobile phone itself, for Opera Mini (which is available for Android and iPhone), however, the rendering engine is located on the Opera servers.
Basically this means that Opera Mini first connects to Opera's servers and then loads the web pages while normal Opera instead loads the pages directly.
As an effect, Opera Mini is much faster and lighter than Opera Mobile, thanks to the lower commitment of resources and memory and because the sites are compressed by the Opera servers before they are opened.
Opera Browser showcases a new updated and optimized user interface for Android tablets such as the Samsung Galaxy.
Rendering technologies have been updated with a new engine and has support for HTML5 videos, for Adobe Flash and for operations supported by multi-touch screen.
The zoom has been improved in various ways with a better display of the text while zooming.
Then there are sharing options on Facebook and Twitter and an interrupted browsing recovery function.
Opera Mobile also optionally supports the Turbo functionality, i.e. the compression of sites that is predefined on Opera Mini.
Opera Mini is a historical browser for mobile phones, which has the characteristic of compressing traffic and being the most advantageous for navigating with consumption data subscription plans.
Opera Mini, compressing web pages to the bone, is the ideal browser if you browse the internet from your mobile phone or smartphone without having subscriptions or with limited consumption tariff plans .
The mini browser has a new look and options for sharing web content.
Opera Mini now supports watching Youtube videos and also allows you to open links in the background with an improved and optimized design for tablets.
Opera Mini for iPhone and Android and Opera Browser (for Android) can be downloaded directly to your phone by connecting to the official Opera Mobile site where there are links to the Google Play and iTunes stores.
From 2018, for both Android and iPhone, another Opera browser is also available, called Opera Touch which connects PC and mobile phone and is used with one hand.
