The best mobile Web-browsing experience, bar none, comes from the iPhone. Users of all other phones should check out Opera Mini 4.1, the latest version of the free, popular portable browser. Among the new features:
- It's up to 50 percent faster than version 4.0.
- It will automatically suggest URL completions, making address input easy and intuitive.
- Web pages can be saved for later off-line viewing.
- Images, ringtones, and other content can be downloaded without leaving Opera Mini.
Opera Mini promises compatibility with just about every mobile phone, though not all features are guaranteed to work on all models. (Note to Palm Treo/Centro users: Opera Mini requires Java Virtual Machine, which, inexplicably, Palm no longer offers. If you don't already have it, a little Google searching should help you track it down.)
You can see Opera Mini 4.1 in action up above.