Price: Free

Opera Mini, a version of the Opera browser specially formulated for mobile devices, has been designed to let you browse Web pages designed for regular devices. Requests are piped through Opera's servers and reformatted to use minimal bandwidth. (Another version of the browser, Opera Mobile, does all the processing on the phone itself.) Text is automatically reflowed to fit the width of your device's screen -- a very handy touch -- and you can save Web pages locally for future reading. Version 6, which recently shipped, supports improved pan/zoom for pages and a slew of minor performance and behavioral changes from the previous edition. Opera Mini doesn't support Flash, unfortunately, but for basic Web browsing it's just about perfect. -- Serdar Yegulalp

Opera Mini 6

OS reviewed: Android