Apple’s iPhone, which goes on sale June 29, gets oohs and ahhs for a number of reasons, a big one being the way its Safari Web browser displays pages just like the desktop version, then lets you run your fingers over the screen to zoom in and out.

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Taking a page — albeit a tinier one — from the iPhone’s design is a new test version of the Opera Mini browser for cellphones. There are two important differences: The first is that people can get their hands on the free browser, officially named Opera Mini 4 beta, by visiting mini.opera.com, which also lists compatible phones. The second is that most phones that can run the browser have considerably smaller screens than the iPhone and don’t respond to taps of the finger (though those with touch screens will).

Even so, a few minutes with the new browser on a Nokia 6682 smartphone was enough to see (by squinting) that it does in fact display Web pages the way they are meant to appear. Pressing the center navigation button zooms in, and clicking on a link zooms in closer still, with pages appearing in a highly readable column format. Keypad shortcuts make entering Web addresses easy. JOE HUTSKO