Re:Opera Mini approved for iPhone
by ubernostrum on Tuesday April 13, 2010 @11:51AM
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I look at this as kind of amusing; my previous phone could only run Opera Mini, and the prospect of having a real web browser was one of the things which drove me to the iPhone. Mobile Safari's UI and its actual support for decently rendering pages (coupled with the privacy concerns Opera Mini's proxy system naturally raises) are so far ahead that I'm a bit surprised anyone would actually choose to use Opera Mini -- it's like I've stumbled into a bizarre parallel world where people are clamoring for the right to install and use IE6 as a replacement for Firefox or Chrome.
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Re:Opera Mini approved for iPhone
by dpritchett on Tuesday April 13, 2010 @01:19PM
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In my few hours of use so far Opera Mini is the clear winner in terms of page load time, caching, and battery life. This is on a 3G. I have no good answers on the privacy side.
Well put. Well people started making a fuss about Opera Mini getting approved I couldn't understand why. Safari on the iPhone is the best mobile browser out there in terms of both specification conformance and performance.
Because there is a percentage of people heating long waits... Safari is very nice but not responsive enough, and sometimes if you want just to read a news site, the user experience is just the same. Also I think that EDGE users will enjoy the fact that finally it's possible to have decent loading times of web pages.
I live in a city covered by 3G but when I from in my home town it's almost impossible to suft the web with Safari, while it was ok with Opera Mini on a Nokia N70 phone.
Opera Mini is surely not a drop in replacement for Safari Mobile, but it surely is a useful tool, much more useful than most of the other top-downloads in the Appstore.
Re:Opera Mini approved for iPhone
by TallGuyShort on Tuesday April 13, 2010 @01:16PM
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I hardly ever use my mobile browser, so I can't speak much for which one's better - but if nothing else, I think it's good that there's now more selection and variety available.