Opera Mobile
2000 – present
Active
90
Mobile edition of Opera born on Psion (EPOC) devices in 2000, later ported to Symbian, Windows Mobile and Android; a pioneer of “small screen” rendering and Opera Turbo compression.
Facts
- Developer
- Opera Software
- Website
- www.opera.com
- Current engines
- Former engines
- Derived from
- Opera
- Current platforms
- Former platforms
- Details
- Symbian (S60v1 until 2005, S60v2 until 2010, S60v3+ until 2012 with 12.0.2), Windows Mobile (until 2010, version 10.0), Psion EPOC (Series 5/7, netBook, until 2002), UIQ (9.5 beta in 2008), Maemo and MeeGo (last Labs 12 builds in February 2012): all discontinued; only Android is still supported; Presto up to 12.16, WebKit in 14, Blink since 15
- Popularity
- 90/100 — Google Play: 500M+ installs for Opera for Android (com.opera.browser, successor to Opera Mobile), ~5.5M ratings (Nov. 2026)
Key versions
- 3.6First mobile edition of Opera, on Psion Series 5, 5mx, 7 and netBook organizers.
- 6.10Proxy and WAP page support, first localized builds in 9 languages.
- 8.0Introduces Opera Mobile Accelerator (server-side compression) and DHTML; requires Symbian OS 7.
- 8.6First release for Symbian OS 9, with multiple windows and SVG.
- 8.65Last release for Symbian S60 2nd Edition.
- 9.5 betaBeta for Windows Mobile, later extended to UIQ 3 with Opera Widgets.
- 9.7 betaPresto 2.2New Presto 2.2 engine and Opera Turbo compression.
- 10New cross-platform UI shared with Opera Mini, with Speed Dial; last version for Windows Mobile.
- 10.1 betaFirst Android release.
- 11Released for Android, Symbian S60, Maemo, MeeGo and Windows, with more HTML5.
- 12Last Presto-based generation, for Android, S60, Maemo and MeeGo.
- 15BlinkRedesigned Android version based on Chromium; some features such as bookmarks removed.
- 12.1.9PrestoLast “classic” Presto release for Android.