Opera Mini For Android Drops The Beta Tags, Gets Bumped To Version 5.1

These days, just about everything makes its public debut in Beta form. Google launched Gmail into an immediate state of notability with its Beta strategy, and chose to hang on to the tag for years for good measure. Online games have more players in their Beta period than the games of yesteryear ever had. There’s a joke to be made here about Apple managing to sell a few million iPhone 4s before it was out of Beta , but I’ll leave that flamewar fuel (mostly) untapped for tonight. Sooner or later, all good Betas must come to an end. The latest product shedding its Beta skin? Opera Mini for Android. If you’ve been using Opera Mini 5 for Android for a while, the sans-Beta 5.1 build won’t seem too much different. Same proxy-powered compression magic speeding up browsing and cutting down data usage, same tabbed interface, same PC bookmark syncing functionality — in fact, outside of a few minor tweaks and a laundry list of bug fixes…
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