We waited long for Opera mini to come on iPhone and apple has taken a brave move to allow Opera mini app for iPhone.
It is a great news, as we expected Opera mini is much faster than Safari with some cool features but at the same time it needs improvements. But overall opera mini will be a very good competitor for safari.
Opera has done very good job with mini. Easy access to book marks, history. Opera mini can save pages and you can search page content as well, We miss these features in Safari.
Opening pages in opera is much faster than safari and if you move Back and Forward to previous or next page it uses history to load the page rahter then reloading the whole page which makes it easy to go back and forth.
In settings it has option of Fullscreen which is again a cool feature to have better view of the web page. Another cool feature is Mobile view to see mobile version of websites. I personally dont like seeing websites in mobile view like BBC website if you open in safari it just shows mobile version of BBC's website but in opera i can view the full BBC's website.
Zooming and multi-touch does not work perfectly in opera but its not something you can't get use to very easy. If you double tab on the screen it zooms in and if you double tab it zooms out.
Opera has provided very sleek way of viewing all open pages and opening a new page is quite good as well. We can see opera has done a good job and why not as Opera Mini generates more than $1.2 billion per year for mobile operators [1]. And opera mini has more than 50 million users worldwide [2] which makes opera mini an attractive and important product for opera.
Opera link is another great option to synchronize speed dial, bookmarks and notes accross other opera powered devices.
Opera has also done a great job of providing a clear video comparison of Opera mini and Safari on iPhone [3]. Opera mini uses opera's compression technology which compress page on the server and sends it to the browser on compress format which makes is much faster even on slower networks.
I see a big and bright future of Opera mini in mobile world.
1. http://www.opera.com/press/releases/2010/03/29/
2. http://www.opera.com/press/releases/2010/04/13/
3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpTCS3g-cBY
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