Category Archives: mobile

AI-powered Opera Mini browser lands on Andromax mobile devices

to keep Indonesian users updated with an advanced in-browser newsfeed Further putting down its roots in Indonesia, Opera is announcing a strategic partnership with Andromax, one of the leading local 4G smartphone brands available for less than one million rupiahs. Through this partnership, the all new Andromax smartphone and 4G feature phones will be pre-installed […]

Opera integrates web payment solution first in Kenya

New solution aims to facilitate Kenya and its highest rate of mobile payment technology adoption in the world Opera, the Norwegian developer of Opera Mini, the most popular mobile browser app in Africa, has integrated a new web payment platform in Kenya called OPay. The service directly runs on the Opera Mini browser, which will […]

AI news engine lands on Opera Mini for iPhone

Catching up with the world has never been easier. Opera has released a new version of its most popular mobile browser app, Opera Mini, for iPhone users. The revamped user interface features a newsfeed on its start page and helps users get the news four times faster than the previous version. An artificial intelligent (AI) […]

African women use mobile internet more heavily than men

Opera and digital reading non-profit Worldreader have joined forces to understand how women in Africa use mobile internet. Two studies undertaken by the organizations have found that women in Africa use mobile internet to empower and entertain themselves. Opera ran a survey of 1,500 women and men aged 14 to 44 in Nigeria, Kenya, and […]

Nearly half of smartphone users in Indonesia are not satisfied with their default browsers

A survey of respondents identifies slow browsing speed as a main problem A survey conducted in the six biggest cities in Indonesia revealed that nearly half of respondents are not satisfied with their default browsers because of slow browsing speed, high data consumption and frequent crashes. The Mobile Browser Satisfactory Index Survey was conducted in […]

New Opera Max 3.0 makes your Android apps lighter and safer

Opera Max, the most popular Android data management and data saving app, today rolled out its new 3.0 version. This is a major update with an all new design, optimized for easier use of the powerful data savings and data management tools inside Opera Max. Additionally, the new version introduces a huge improvement to the […]

Introducing Opera Cricket

New Opera Mini brings faster access to cricket scores and alerts Today, Opera rolls out Opera Cricket to keep users in India on top of this cricket season. The new feature not only provides lightning fast cricket scores, commentary, video, and notifications when on the move but will also allow users to keep track of […]

More than 50% of top shopping apps collect users’ personal information through trackers

More than half of the top 60 Android shopping apps collect users’ personal information through trackers, a new study finds. The result is from a privacy risk assessment on Opera Max, a leading data management and data savings app for Android. The 60 most popular shopping apps were reviewed using privacy mode on this app. Another […]

Opera VPN app rolls out to Android

First fully free feature-rich VPN without data limits A free and unlimited VPN app for Android is today available from Opera. The new app lets people enhance their online privacy, block ad-tracking cookies, access more online content, extend the geographical reach of apps and test the security of Wi-Fi networks. “The Opera VPN app for […]