The Opera Mini is designed to work on virtually any cell phone, including low-cost units, and can be downloaded at no charge at mini.opera.com.
The program offers a Google start page and bookmark capabilities.
This week's world launch of the browser comes after successful trials were run last fall in Scandinavia and Germany.
Copyright 2006 by United Press International
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