Johan Sch??ns post at the Opera Mini blog raised my curiosity:
The Opera Mini team has been hard at work for quite some time now on the next major version of Mini. We’re proud and excited that people who have had a chance to test early versions call this new generation another breakthrough in mobile web browsing.
Opera Mini, with an amazing 15 million downloads (!), is in my opinion (and, apparently, 15 million other peoples) the best way to surf the net outside a PC.
In fact, after using the Nokia 770 web tablet for a while, I returned to my Sony Ericsson K800 running Opera Mini (and Google Mail and Google Maps Mobile in parallel). It’s just a perfect combination of portability, speed and ease of use.
So, what’s in store for the next version? To be honest, the upgrade to 2.0 wasn’t that exciting. It’s not an easy task: how do they improve what in essence is a good enough application? I’m really looking forward to find out with the 3.0 version.