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Opera Browser to be the Default for Microsoft

Opera announced that they now have a signed licensing deal with Microsoft for their browser building department in Nokia which means that the Opera Mini will become the default browser for Microsoft’s feature phone product lines and the Asha phones product lines which effects phones in the Series 30+, Series 40 and Asha families. Besides […]

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Aug 21, 2014
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Opera announced that they now have a signed licensing deal with Microsoft for their browser building department in Nokia which means that the Opera Mini will become the default browser for Microsoft’s feature phone product lines and the Asha phones product lines which effects phones in the Series 30+, Series 40 and Asha families. Besides Opera Mini being preinstalled on new devices, as part of the deal, existing users of those phones will soon be prompted to switch to Opera Mini from Nokia Xpress, which is the browser the phones currently run. Continue reading here.

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