Opera Mini for the Android open mobile platform

Opera has announce the technical preview release of its Opera Mini web browser for Google’s open mobile platform, Android.

You can read about some details of the story behind Opera Mini on Google Android. You can download the Opera Mini web browser for Google Android at the Opera Labs web site. And of course you’ll need the Google Android SDK installed on your computer not unless you’re one of those blessed with a Google Android mobile phone on your hand .

Here’s a copy of their press release:

Opera Software today announced that the globally acclaimed Opera Mini™ browser for mobile phones is available for the Android platform. Today’s technical preview release is available at labs.opera.com, inviting the Android development community to test the fresh build and share feedback with Opera for the forthcoming beta. Opera Mini for Android makes the company’s fast-performing and device-adapting Web experience available to any range of handset built on Android.

Opera is renowned for its cross-platform portability and today’s release embraces the Android platform in Opera’s commitment to making the best Internet experience available on any device.

“Today we’re glad to deliver our mass-market mobile browser to the Android development groups,” says Jon von Tetzchner, CEO, Opera Software. “Opera Mini will be able to empower users of Android-based handsets with access to all of their favorite Web sites with popular features for smooth effects and scalable, tailored viewing.”

Opera Mini, boasting more than 40 million users worldwide across mobile platforms, enables Web browsing from low-to-high resource handsets by compressing data at a remote server before sending content to the phone applet for rendering. With a simple, user-friendly interface, Opera Mini powers innovative features for real, desktop-like Web browsing from a mobile phone, including Small Screen Rendering, Zoom, synced bookmarks and integrated Google search. With Opera Mini optimized for Android, open handset developers can include a tried and tested, full Internet experience.