Enhanced text selection specifically for touchscreen feature phones. Data Compression: Opera's proxy-based technology
: It brought improved text selection and smoother scrolling for the early touchscreen feature phones that were just starting to hit the market. A Legacy of Accessibility Opera Mini 6.1.0 Vxp -
Why? Because it turned resistive touch screens (that you had to stab with a stylus) into usable browsing machines. While Java phones lagged on heavy WAP sites, the Vxp version of Opera Mini 6.1.0 offloaded the rendering to Opera's servers. You weren't loading the website; you were loading a tiny picture of the website. Opera Mini 6.1.0 Vxp -
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