{"id":55989,"date":"2013-11-21T01:06:39","date_gmt":"2013-11-20T23:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=55989"},"modified":"2025-07-02T01:01:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T08:01:12","slug":"opera-for-android-updated-with-tablet-interface","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/opera-for-android-updated-with-tablet-interface\/","title":{"rendered":"Opera for Android updated with tablet interface"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Opera for Android review and download\" href=\"http:\/\/opera-mobile.en.softonic.com\/android\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Opera for Android<\/a> received a major update today, featuring a tablet optimized interface. Opera for Android has been out for a while but there hasn&#8217;t been a tablet optimized version yet. That changes today as the Opera team has released a version of Opera for Android with tablet support.<\/p>\n<p>The Discover, Off-Road mode, and Speed Dial features are included in the tablet interface. Discover lets you add news sources and other sites to your start page within Opera, making it easier to get to your content. Speed Dial is basically Opera&#8217;s grid layout of your most visited sites, similar to Chrome. Perhaps the best feature of Opera, Off-Road mode, allows users to compress data to save on bandwidth if you have a capped data plan or if you have a poor connection.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-55994\" title=\"Opera for Android tablets Speed Dial\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/11\/Opera-for-Android-tablets-Speed-Dial-568x355.png\" alt=\"Opera for Android tablets Discover\" width=\"568\" height=\"355\" srcset=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/11\/Opera-for-Android-tablets-Speed-Dial-568x355.png 568w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/11\/Opera-for-Android-tablets-Speed-Dial-256x160.png 256w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/11\/Opera-for-Android-tablets-Speed-Dial.png 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 568px) 100vw, 568px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In addition to a tablet optimized interface, Opera for Android is now based on Chromium 31, the latest engine that runs Google&#8217;s <a title=\"Chrome for Android review and download\" href=\"http:\/\/chrome.en.softonic.com\/android\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chrome<\/a> browser. This means the two browser should be equally speedy.<\/p>\n<p>Opera made a <a title=\"Chromium-based Opera 15 out for PC and Mac now\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/chromium-based-opera-15-out-for-pc-and-mac-now\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">surprising transition<\/a> from its Presto engine to the WebKit, which Chrome and <a title=\"Safari browser downloads\" href=\"http:\/\/en.softonic.com\/s\/safari:windows-mac-iphone\/windows\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Safari<\/a> are based on. Google decided to create its own fork of WebKit called <a title=\"Google Chrome to use modified version of WebKit rendering engine called 'Blink'\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/google-chrome-to-use-modified-version-of-webkit-rendering-engine-called-blink\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Blink<\/a>, which Opera quickly adopted for version 15 of its desktop browser.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Download <a title=\"Opera for Android download\" href=\"http:\/\/opera-mobile.en.softonic.com\/android\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Opera for Android<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<h4>RELATED STORIES<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/winamp-shutting-down-dec-20th\">Winamp shutting down Dec 20th<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/google-play-newsstand-combines-magazines-and-currents-apps\">Google Play Newsstand combines Magazines and Currents apps<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/android-kitkat-bugfix-update-krt16s-rolling-out\">Android KitKat Bugfix Update KRT16S rolling out<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/h4>\n<p>Source: <a title=\"Treat your Android tablet with new Opera 18 for Android\" href=\"http:\/\/www.operasoftware.com\/press\/releases\/mobile\/2013-11-20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Opera<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opera for Android received a major update today, featuring a tablet optimized interface. Opera for Android has been out for a while but there hasn&#8217;t been a tablet optimized version yet. That changes today as the Opera team has released a version of Opera for Android with tablet support. The Discover, Off-Road mode, and Speed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/opera-for-android-updated-with-tablet-interface\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Opera for Android updated with tablet interface&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2033,"featured_media":55994,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[2360],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-55989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionopera"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2033"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55989"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":331778,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55989\/revisions\/331778"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55989"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=55989"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=55989"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=55989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}