Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 13th Apr 2010 17:31 UTC, submitted by ebasconp
Since the announcement from Opera about submitting Opera Mini to the App Store made it to the front page, I can't really relegate the application's admittance into the App Store to the side column - I'm not particularly liked by the Apple fans as it is. So, here it goes, full frontal: Apple has accepted Opera Mini into the App Store.
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RE: Faster on Android - IMO
by Heard on Tue 13th Apr 2010 19:28
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I regularly use Opera on my Nokia 5800, which runs Symbian, and I am also very impressed of it since the release of the current version. It's fast, works flawless and the user interface is almost perfect. In my view it's better than Safari on the iPhone. The only two things that could be better are the zooming levels and flash support.
I really wonder if the iPhone version is that much different from the Symbian Version.
RE[2]: Faster on Android - IMO
by phoenix on Tue 13th Apr 2010 22:08
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I use Opera Mini 4 and Opera Mini 5 beta 2 on my Sony-Ericsson w580i.
4 works beautifully, loads in under 3 seconds, has page-up/page-down (left/right arrow) support, and can handle all the news sites I throw at it.
5, on the other hand, takes 30 seconds to load, doesn't have page-up/page-down, and takes longer to load each page. Looks nicer than 4, though, and supports multiple tabs. But it's sluggish. Hopefully, the release version will be faster.
Compared to the included WAP browser, Opera Mini is awesome! Compared to a full-fledged Webkit-based browser? No idea. (Won't be upgrading my phone until I see an Sony Xperia X10-mini Pro in Canada.)
RE[2]: Faster on Android - IMO
by _txf_ on Tue 13th Apr 2010 22:57
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I have a Samsung Moment, my friend an iPhone. He was giddy to have Opera on his phone. So we both installed it and loaded some webpages as fast as we could. Facebook /OSNews /Slashdot /Drudge /Woot in that order. I made it to Woot while he was still loading OSNews.
I am not a normal user of Opera, but I was impressed by the speed on my phone. I also didn't see any lag scrolling and zooming. Honestly, I was impressed. If I could have adblock on this this it would be awesome. I cannot wait to try out Fennec.
I still don't think I would use Opera on the desktop though.