Others seems to have explained what makes Mini special in the browser world, thought it may help to know that it started out as a J2ME feature phone &quot;app&quot;.<p>Yep, it will provide web access over a crappy EDGE connection using a feature phone.<p>As for the larger Opera, what happened was Google Chrome. There was no way a small for profit like Opera could keep up. So they caved, and now their desktop and non-mini mobile offerings are Chromium based.