Norway’s
Opera Software launched a new version of the Opera Mini browser for
Android phones, hoping to more than double its smartphone user base by
the end of 2017.
Google’s
Android is the most widely used operating system among mobile phone
makers. With the launch of Mini 8, Opera aims to lift its smartphone
user base to 275 million by 2017 from the current 130 million,
increasing the total to 350 million when including around 75 million
users of less advanced feature phones.
The
purpose of using Mini, which has become particularly popular in many
developing countries, is both to speed up online surfing and to cut
costs, as the browser can compress data by up to 90 percent.
Smartphone
customers generally do much more online surfing, making them far more
valuable than users of feature phones although Opera Software doesn’t
give revenue figures per user.
“It’s
complicated, we have customers in 200 countries and more and more of
them are using smartphones and fewer are on feature phones,” Opera
investor relations chief Petter Lade told Reuters.
“Our
target is to have 275 million smart phones and 75 million on feature
phones, this will be our total target for mobile users for 2017,” he
added.
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