Opera Mobile Store

Opera Mobile Store
Developer(s)	Handster → Opera
Initial release	March 8, 2011
Operating system	Android, Java, Series 30+, BlackBerry OS, Symbian, iOS, Windows Mobile, Windows Phone
Website	apps.opera.com

Opera Mobile Store
	The Opera Mobile Store Logo
Type of site	Digital distribution, software store
Available in	Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Persian, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Nepali, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Tagalog, Thai, Turkish, Vietnamese
Dissolved	April 2022 (start of shutdown); March 2023 (fully decommissioned)
Area served	Worldwide
Created by	Opera, later Bemobi
URL	apps.opera.com
Launched	March 8, 2011
Current status	Discontinued

Opera Mobile Store was a platform-independent browser-based app store for mobile-phone owners and a digital application distribution platform used by more than 40,000 developers.^[1] It is owned and maintained by Opera. Launched by a third-party provider in March 2011, the Opera Mobile Store was relaunched on a new platform, after acquisition of Handster,^[2] a mobile app store platform company, in January 2012. The service allows users to browse and download applications for over 7,500 different devices^[1] on Android, Java, BlackBerry OS, Symbian, iOS, and Windows Mobile.

Opera Mobile Store has than 1 million app downloads a day^[3] and is accessible from any mobile phone via a bookmark or the Start Page of Opera Mini or Opera Mobile browsers. The store is also accessible from any other browser, including desktop versions, and on any operating system, from https://apps.opera.com/. The Opera Mobile Store then forwards the user to the country-specific store based on the location information provided by the mobile carrier or ISP.

Over 86% of the applications for Android-powered phones provided by the Opera Mobile Store are free of charge. The average free-vs.-paid-apps ratio for all platforms is 70% and 30%, respectively.^{[citation needed]} These applications are generally targeted on a particular category, including video games, business applications, social media apps, e-books, and others.

^ ^a ^b "Microsoft and Opera Software sign agreement to extend Opera Mobile Store to more Nokia phones". Opera Press Releases (Press release). Opera Software ASA. November 18, 2014. Retrieved November 20, 2014.
^ "Opera acquires Handster Inc". Opera Press Releases (Press release). Opera Software ASA. September 19, 2011. Retrieved December 12, 2012.
^ Bango PLC (August 31, 2011). "Update on Mobile App Stores". RNS Reach Story. London Stock Exchange. Archived from the original on June 13, 2013. Retrieved December 6, 2012.

[Nokia_Store_→_Opera_Mobile_Store_press-release-1] "Microsoft and Opera Software sign agreement to extend Opera Mobile Store to more Nokia phones". Opera Press Releases (Press release). Opera Software ASA. November 18, 2014. Retrieved November 20, 2014.

[acquisition_of_Handster_—_Opera-2] "Opera acquires Handster Inc". Opera Press Releases (Press release). Opera Software ASA. September 19, 2011. Retrieved December 12, 2012.

[Update_on_Mobile_App_Stores-3] Bango PLC (August 31, 2011). "Update on Mobile App Stores". RNS Reach Story. London Stock Exchange. Archived from the original on June 13, 2013. Retrieved December 6, 2012.

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