The Norwegian giants Opera Software have just announced their Opera Mini web browser launching at INQ’s lineup of smartphones beginning this month.
Some background for our readers: INQ is a brand of mobile phones created by Hutchison Whampoa, better known as 3, UK. They saw the need to create a device that would give people who can’t afford smartphones features like built in social networking integration, email and instant messaging. In the Mobile World Congress INQ displayed their very first Android powered devices. Until now, they only offered a set of phones running on Qualcomm’s Brew operating system.
Combine that thinking with bargained prices and you will know why teaming up with Opera makes sense. Their Opera Mini web browser uses server farms in various parts of the world to render the page to be viewed, compress it up to 90% before making it finally available on your handset. It allows 3 to build inexpensive INQ devices to save on infrastructure costs since the bandwidth is low.
