After launching its Android app in early October, Opera released the newest Opera for mobile phone (Opera Mini 6.5 and Opera Mobile 11.5) for several platforms, featuring a data counter. With this feature, when you use data package in certain amount (for example 1GB/ month), you can find out how much data package you have spent in this month and how much data package you save after your usage is being compressed by using Opera server.

Opera Mini 6.5 was launched for iOS (iPhone and iPad), BlackBerry, Symbian S60, and Java (J2ME). The newest version of Opera Mobile is also now available on Symbian S60. Opera claims that using an Opera browser can help reduce data usage (and certainly reduce the cost) by up to 90%.

Philip Grønvold, Opera Product Manager for Mobile Devices stated that “there are many ways to cut down your mobile usage cost and keep you away from swelled mobile phone bill. Data counter on Opera Mini and Opera Mobile is one of the ways to do so. Data counter will instantly show you how much people can save”.

If you are going to foreign country (roaming) and have only limited data access, Opera Mini and Opera Mobile may be the right solutions for you to manage your data usage and cost. You’ll no longer have to worry about coming home from a business trip and discovering that your mobile phone bill had run into six figures due to data usage.