Opera Turbo Speed up Browsing in the Phone

During the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, ​​many technology companies began little by little divulge their latest product or service. After yesterday's Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.5 announced here are some new features, this time turn the Opera announces new service, Opera Turbo to perform data compression, makes the process of browsing through a slower network to be faster, both desktop and mobile. With Opera Turbo can accelerate browsing on mobile phones.

This service called Opera Turbo compresses bandwidth of text and data files on these sites about 80% of actual size. This service will be available to business customers, are like mobile network providers, network operators, through the Opera Desktop, Opera Mobile, and "Opera Devices SDK" so developers can pack these features into the browser on the PC and mobile devices.

According to Julie Sajnani, communications manager of Opera, Opera Turbo is suitable for increasing the speed of browsing on mobile devices and the desktop that uses the internet connection with low bandwidth. Users can enable Opera Turbo on any browser that has a service to compress the site to speed up browsing, but Sajnani also stressed that this will not detract from the user, because the site will look exactly the same as usual.

In addition, he also added that the network-based files that use multimedia technology, such as Flash or Ajax, will not be compressed.

About the workings, Opera will use a separate server to perform compression for Opera Turbo before being forwarded again to the user after being compressed. The end user can enable Opera Turbo Opera through any browser that has the ability to activate the service.

Sajnani also said that the service is not only beneficial for the end user, but also for operators and manufacturers of products that use them. Handsets makers can slightly reduce the use of the data because only download files that are already compressed. This process will also reduce the burden of bandwidth provided by the operator.

This service will also eventually be offered directly to consumers.