Casting off its beta tag with careless abandon is Opera Mini 5.1 For Android, an alternative mobile web browser which is deemed to now have sufficient polish to warrant ‘full release’ status.
We have to say we were a little surprised to see Opera Mini for the iPhone suddenly appearing in the App Store, but it’s here and we’ve downloaded it already!
Given Apple’s frankly ridiculous rule banning any apps that compete with their own - regardless of merit – many had feared that you’d be as likely to see Opera running on an iPhone as you would be to see Steve Jobs getting jiggy around Chez Adobe, but it’s here, alright. And we like it.
Plucky Opera have decided to take on Apple’s iron-like grip on its AppStore by announcing a version of its Mini browser for the iPhone.
Due to be unveiled at next week’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Opera are confident that iPhone users will soon be able to use their popular browser, cheekily commenting:
“We have not submitted Opera Mini to the Apple App store. However, we hope that Apple will not deny their users a choice in web browsing experience.”
It’s the world’s most popular mobile browser with over 30 million downloads, and the latest beta version has just rocked into town.
One of the main drivers for the browser’s enduring success is the natty server side compression technology used by Opera to make websites up to 90% smaller and thus vastly nippier to download.
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