OK, I admit it, I was wrong. Opera Mini is fantastic; even the first beta of 4.0 is faster and more stable than the latest (native Symbian) Opera Mobile, and has some great features not available in the latter. And I absolutely love the use of their proxy and the resulting reduced bandwidth. For the record, this is on a Nokia 6630.
Then again, Opera Mobile hasn’t been updated in a year, and it’s 8.x, while Mini (the version 4 betas) are based on 9.x. I have great hopes for Opera Mobile 9, with its Ajax support, among other new stuff.
Anyway, I installed Mini 4.0 beta 2 yesterday evening, and it “feels” even better than the first beta: quicker, a new small font (should be great for screens larger than mine), custom search engines, and it saves whether you want full screen or not; no need to enable it every time I open the browser. 
Plus, it’s free. Go ahead, try it out.
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More stable than the latest Opera Mobile? Cool, I was not thinking of trying out this beta 2 since the 1st beta was so buggy, but now I’ll have to give it a try!
Well, I found the *first* beta more stable than Opera Mobile as well.
But then again, on my 6630 (with the latest firmware), Java apps tend to be more stable than Symbian ones, for some reason…