Opera Software today announced that the Opera Mini browser for mobile phones is available for the Android platform. Opera Mini for Android makes the company's fast-performing and device-adapting Web experience available to any range of handset built on Android.

"Today we're glad to deliver our mass-market mobile browser to the Android development groups," says Jon von Tetzchner, CEO, Opera Software. "Opera Mini will be able to empower users of Android-based handsets with access to all of their favorite Web sites with popular features for smooth effects and scalable, tailored viewing."

Opera Mini enables Web browsing from handsets by compressing data at a remote server before sending content to the phone applet for rendering. With a simple interface, Opera Mini powers features for desktop-like Web browsing from a mobile phone, including Small Screen Rendering, Zoom, synced bookmarks and integrated Google search. With Opera Mini optimized for Android, open handset developers can include a tested, full Internet experience.

For more information or to download the Opera Mini for Android technical preview, visit http://labs.opera.com/ .

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