Opera Mini’s famous data compression mode has been fine-tuned. You can choose between:

: Maintains Opera's signature cloud-acceleration technology, which compresses web data by up to 90% before it reaches your device.

Opera Mini 74 may be small, but it packs a remarkable number of features that make it a complete browsing solution.

Launched in 2005, Opera Mini predates the modern smartphone era. Originally designed for Java ME feature phones, its revolutionary concept was simple: instead of rendering web pages on the device, a remote server (the Opera proxy) would pre-process, compress, and then send a lightweight version (in Opera Binary Markup Language, OBML) to the handset. This allowed devices with minimal RAM, slow CPUs, and expensive 2G/3G connections to browse the full web.

If you are still running Opera Mini 73, you are missing out on critical improvements. Here is what changed in the jump to version 74: