Rogers, the Canadian phone carrier, put the Nokia N97 Mini for sale on different contract plans. Off-contract the phone would be $499.99, which is probably too big thinking that the device is just the Mini version the the original N97. On a three-year contract you will have to spend $99.99 for purchasing it, which is a pretty good deal, but I can't see myself tying me up on a contract for three years just because of the N97 Mini. Buy it on a two-year plan and you'll have to spend $399.99 which is, again, too expensive in my opinion. Let's not talk about the one-year deal possibility, which is one of the worse offers possible: $449.99. No, thanks!

Few specs of the smartphone: the screen is a 3.2 inch, with 8GB memory, 512 MB NAND memory (256 MB for the Nokia N97), weighs 138g and has a 1200mAh 3.7V battery. The camera is a 5.0 MP, there's a qwerty keyboard on it (with the "space" key on the right - oddly enough), powered up by a 434MHz processor and having an 128MB SDRAM. Not impressive. Not impressive at all, thinking about the price too. The offer is decent if you want 100% the smartphone, but otherwise I would think about something else.

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Opera Mini, maybe the best mobile browser out there, just got an incredible 2.6 million users on iPhone in not more than two weeks since it's been released. The release dat was on 13th April and Opera announced this morning that users have been run the new version on iPhone 2.6 million times until 30th April. We do not have statistics about this period right now, but I assume that Opera reached the 3 million milestone until today.

The mobile phone web browser is one of the most used out there, and not just on iPhone. I even use it, but not on iPhone, but on Nokia N95. It's pretty sure the best out there because it offers an arguably good experience. One of the things that I don't like about the new version is, though I like Opera Mini a lot, the fact that on the frontpage there are some links that you can't change. I mean the Opera Webpage, BBC and some other ones. 

Working on most of the platforms out there offers Opera a wide-range of users that can run Mini on their devices, and now, with the browsing on the mobile phone becoming a trend, it seems Opera Mini has the whole potential in the world to become an incredible business.

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