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Opera figures out some way to get their browser on the iPhone
Leave it to Opera to knock my RSS reader sideways.When I woke up this morning, the last thing I ever expected to see was a press release from the crafty Scandinavians announcing that their browser is set to appear on yet another mobile device.
But the iPhone and iPod Touch? Really?
That's what they're telling us. They're also telling us it will be fast and feature many of Opera's desktop abilities like tabbed browsing, a password manager, speed dial, and, in all likelihood, Opera Link to synchronize your profiles.
How will they execute this and still get Opera into the App Store? Apple is, after all, not in the habit of approving any browsers which aren't just a wrapper around Safari.
The Opera Mini bomb is set to drop at the Mobile World Congress in just a few days. Once it does, we'll have some hands-on reports and a better understanding of just what in the name of mighty Hercules is going on here.
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Subscribe to commentsRichardFeb 10th 2010 9:54AM
Whilst Opera Mini is good, it makes much more sense on phones which are lacking a decent browser (Blackberry, I'm looking at you).
As such, I'm not sure why I'd replace Mobile Safari with it.
(Although if it had adblock built in and didn't annoyingly keep refreshing pages that you've come back to after opening a link in another window, then I might consider it...)
hmmFeb 10th 2010 3:20PM
Certainly replacing Safari wouldn't make sense unless you are on a bad network or on data roaming. But the thing is that having a choice of browsers is always good. It would be great if Firefox and all could also be allowed into the iPhone.
Opera's strategy seems to be that if Spotify was allowed to duplicate functionality it should also be allowed ,and the fact that none of the rendering engines or interpreting engines that are explicitly forbidden to be on the iPhone in the TOS are in the app itself, they are in the cloud for Opera Mini while the app itself is just a thin client.
WolvenSpectreFeb 10th 2010 8:27PM
Well it would definitly make sense if you also used the desktop browser. Mini includes Opera's Sync/Backup service Opera Link. It syncs notes, bookmarks, sessions, address bar history, Speed Dial, and Custom Searches(additional sites search boxes you add).
Add to that that most of the browsing techniques that Apple "introduced" for the iPhone/iPod Touch (outside of Multi Touch) were originally done by Opera 10 years ago and they have added allot of polish to that since, and that they have much more experience with doing handheld interfaces for a browser.
With the new version right around the corner, it is bringing a password manager, tabs, and the download manager that is accelerated through Turbo.