How are they making money from this?
They need to run fast servers that cater to each and every phone that has their app installed anywhere in the world.. won't that be pretty expensive?
from http://www.techjackal.net/internet/2010/04/14/opera-browser-...
1) brand awareness (people will actually start to know Opera web browsing solutions/Opera Software, which is a small brand/browser compared to Firefox or Chrome, don't even mention IE)
2) they make money driving traffic to the default websites on Opera Mini's speed dial homepage