Opera Mini is a fast and easy alternative to Opera's mobile browser, allowing users to access the Web on mobile phones that would normally be incapable of running a Web browser. This includes the vast majority of today's WAP-enabled phones. Instead of requiring the phone to process Web pages, it uses a remote server to pre-process the page before sending it to the phone. This makes Opera Mini perfect for phones with very low resources, or low bandwidth connections. Its special feature is the ability to reduce transferred data volume up to 80% by reformatting visited Web pages and adapting them to the telephone screen.

   Its secret lies in the fact that while the page is being loaded on the device, the browser contacts the Opera servers which download the page in question and purge it of all that is excessive (animations, excessive images, etc.) then the compressed page is sent to the telephone which will now have a smaller download to support and should therefore process the data more quickly. This makes it possible to access websites which are normally accessible on a computer, read emails, refer to up-to-date information or do some research on Google.