Opera Mini gets way officialized for the Helio Ocean
- March 19th, 2008
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I love the Helio Ocean, and I love Opera Mini. When some shadow devs used their fancy footwork to make the two work together, I was a very happy boy. Helio was impressed too, and today announced that the alternative browser would be officially supported on the Helio flagship handset.
This is notable for a few reasons. This is a user-driven initiative; the vibrant Ocean community more or less said “we’re going to use Opera Mini on the Ocean, like it or not”. Helio then said, “Well, OK. We’ll help.” This is not the response most carriers would give, and it rather shows how into its users Helio is. It trusts their judgment.
The free upgrade is also the first time any carrier has ever said, “Here, use Opera Mini.” It’s always been a third-party download.
We’ve also heard that this could be the first of many deals between Helio and Opera. While the new browser doesn’t replace the built-in browser at this time, it might in the future. Those of you with the un-official version might want to upgrade to the official one, as it was made custom or the Ocean and runs a little smoother, or so we hear.
Kudos the Helio and Opera for innovating for the users where most carriers and developers would be stingy.
The Red Monkey (Who am I?)
4 months ago
Opera. I think they should adopt Android on that thing and give the user some flexibility. That would blow my mind. Although the Opera deal is a step in the right direction.
MR.ADAM (Who am I?)
3 months ago
I can honestly say I use opera mini about 3 times as much as I would use the Surf application on the Ocean. Actual web browsing is a dream in Opera Mini, if Helio were to ever use an Opera Browser (Mobile or Mini) as a default browser in the future than i’d be set. Not that they didn’t have a nice attempt with the surf app… Opera is just effin amazing.
Brian Smith (Who am I?)
3 months ago
Well… i was thinking about ditching helio after my contract expired and getting an iPhone… but if they keep putting their customers first, i don’t see why i would.