http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/opera-mini-for-iphone-to-be-revealed-next-week-available-never/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/opera-mini-for-iphone-to-be-revealed-next-week-available-never/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/opera-mini-for-iphone-to-be-revealed-next-week-available-never/Feb 10th 2010 4:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/opera-mini-for-iphone-to-be-revealed-next-week-available-never/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/opera-mini-for-iphone-to-be-revealed-next-week-available-never/The best thing is that if they did, it'd probably wouldn't be anywhere near as good as safari.


]]>Feb 10th 2010 4:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/opera-mini-for-iphone-to-be-revealed-next-week-available-never/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/opera-mini-for-iphone-to-be-revealed-next-week-available-never/Feb 10th 2010 4:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/opera-mini-for-iphone-to-be-revealed-next-week-available-never/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/opera-mini-for-iphone-to-be-revealed-next-week-available-never/Shame on you boy. Tell me where Safari mobile is better than Opera? Don't make this fan boy talk it's really bad for you and the company that you are supporting.]]>Feb 10th 2010 4:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/opera-mini-for-iphone-to-be-revealed-next-week-available-never/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/opera-mini-for-iphone-to-be-revealed-next-week-available-never/
Please Apple, see the light! You can't keep your garden locked forever. The iPhone has grown to be a huge platform used by millions of people so you can't claim its only yours anymore. Even with an open environment I'm sure you can keep the iPhone safe enough just as you did with Mac OS X (and even if not, come on, 90% of the users prefer to us Windows...).

Allow 3rd party installations on the iPhone and it'll have a lot more than 140,000 apps.]]>Feb 10th 2010 4:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/opera-mini-for-iphone-to-be-revealed-next-week-available-never/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/opera-mini-for-iphone-to-be-revealed-next-week-available-never/
Safari on iPhone is far smoother than any other mobile web browsing experience. I fail to see how Opera could do better (unless they added private browsing)]]>Feb 10th 2010 4:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/opera-mini-for-iphone-to-be-revealed-next-week-available-never/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/opera-mini-for-iphone-to-be-revealed-next-week-available-never/
While I agree that mobile Safari on the iPhone is pretty good, I wouldn't say other browsers don't have a chance.

See here for example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmDmH8lEQJE (although it didn't test them thoroughly)
And you have to take two things into account:
1. it's not the latest version of Opera, so we can expect some improvements
2. it didn't use compression, which would make web pages load faster (and cheaper, for those that don't have unlimited internet)]]>Feb 10th 2010 4:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/opera-mini-for-iphone-to-be-revealed-next-week-available-never/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/opera-mini-for-iphone-to-be-revealed-next-week-available-never/
Two words

Firefox Mobile - AKA Fennec

Best mobile web browser I've ever faced.

That includes Safari Mobile, Android's mini Chrome, Opera Mini, IE Mobile]]>Feb 10th 2010 6:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/opera-mini-for-iphone-to-be-revealed-next-week-available-never/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/opera-mini-for-iphone-to-be-revealed-next-week-available-never/Did ever use the latest build on the N900? It might have potential but right now it is no competition to mobile safari, the N900 microB nor the android chrome and opera mobile 9.7 - it lacks useful gestures and its performance hickups ar annoying in everyday use.]]>Feb 10th 2010 7:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/opera-mini-for-iphone-to-be-revealed-next-week-available-never/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/opera-mini-for-iphone-to-be-revealed-next-week-available-never/Feb 10th 2010 7:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/opera-mini-for-iphone-to-be-revealed-next-week-available-never/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/opera-mini-for-iphone-to-be-revealed-next-week-available-never/Feb 10th 2010 8:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/opera-mini-for-iphone-to-be-revealed-next-week-available-never/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/opera-mini-for-iphone-to-be-revealed-next-week-available-never/Feb 10th 2010 8:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/opera-mini-for-iphone-to-be-revealed-next-week-available-never/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/opera-mini-for-iphone-to-be-revealed-next-week-available-never/
I'm pretty sure they still consider all of the iPhone users their customers.]]>Feb 10th 2010 9:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/opera-mini-for-iphone-to-be-revealed-next-week-available-never/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/opera-mini-for-iphone-to-be-revealed-next-week-available-never/
wake me up when mozilla gets there browser on the iphone. They have some really nifty stuff for there mobile browser.]]>Feb 10th 2010 11:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/opera-mini-for-iphone-to-be-revealed-next-week-available-never/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/opera-mini-for-iphone-to-be-revealed-next-week-available-never/See how other people comment on comparisons by having used other programs and experimented - while you just spout fanboy opinions with no support.

That's why none of us are fooled into placing value on anything you say. Its just baseless blind support for anything Apple has or will do. Sad.
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I was just going to point that out, this must surely be Opera Mobile.

I'm using it on my Samsung i8910 and it's an incredible browser, far better than the built-in one. I only wish it supported Flash.]]>Feb 10th 2010 4:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/opera-mini-for-iphone-to-be-revealed-next-week-available-never/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/opera-mini-for-iphone-to-be-revealed-next-week-available-never/Feb 10th 2010 4:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/opera-mini-for-iphone-to-be-revealed-next-week-available-never/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/opera-mini-for-iphone-to-be-revealed-next-week-available-never/Feb 10th 2010 4:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/opera-mini-for-iphone-to-be-revealed-next-week-available-never/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/opera-mini-for-iphone-to-be-revealed-next-week-available-never/Feb 10th 2010 5:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/opera-mini-for-iphone-to-be-revealed-next-week-available-never/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/opera-mini-for-iphone-to-be-revealed-next-week-available-never/Feb 10th 2010 10:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/opera-mini-for-iphone-to-be-revealed-next-week-available-never/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/opera-mini-for-iphone-to-be-revealed-next-week-available-never/Feb 10th 2010 11:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/opera-mini-for-iphone-to-be-revealed-next-week-available-never/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/opera-mini-for-iphone-to-be-revealed-next-week-available-never/Feb 10th 2010 4:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/opera-mini-for-iphone-to-be-revealed-next-week-available-never/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/opera-mini-for-iphone-to-be-revealed-next-week-available-never/Feb 10th 2010 5:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/opera-mini-for-iphone-to-be-revealed-next-week-available-never/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/opera-mini-for-iphone-to-be-revealed-next-week-available-never/Feb 10th 2010 4:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/opera-mini-for-iphone-to-be-revealed-next-week-available-never/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/opera-mini-for-iphone-to-be-revealed-next-week-available-never/Feb 10th 2010 4:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/opera-mini-for-iphone-to-be-revealed-next-week-available-never/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/opera-mini-for-iphone-to-be-revealed-next-week-available-never/Feb 10th 2010 7:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/opera-mini-for-iphone-to-be-revealed-next-week-available-never/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/opera-mini-for-iphone-to-be-revealed-next-week-available-never/
Yeah mainly because it was worse than the PC version of IE6]]>Feb 10th 2010 7:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/opera-mini-for-iphone-to-be-revealed-next-week-available-never/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/opera-mini-for-iphone-to-be-revealed-next-week-available-never/Feb 10th 2010 8:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/opera-mini-for-iphone-to-be-revealed-next-week-available-never/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/opera-mini-for-iphone-to-be-revealed-next-week-available-never/Feb 10th 2010 3:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/opera-mini-for-iphone-to-be-revealed-next-week-available-never/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/opera-mini-for-iphone-to-be-revealed-next-week-available-never/Feb 10th 2010 6:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/opera-mini-for-iphone-to-be-revealed-next-week-available-never/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/opera-mini-for-iphone-to-be-revealed-next-week-available-never/I too use Mercury browser and was surprised to see browsers in the app store. Apparently as long as you use the same foundation as Safari (webkit) then you're allowed into the App Store]]>Feb 10th 2010 7:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/opera-mini-for-iphone-to-be-revealed-next-week-available-never/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/opera-mini-for-iphone-to-be-revealed-next-week-available-never/Feb 10th 2010 4:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/opera-mini-for-iphone-to-be-revealed-next-week-available-never/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/opera-mini-for-iphone-to-be-revealed-next-week-available-never/Feb 10th 2010 4:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/opera-mini-for-iphone-to-be-revealed-next-week-available-never/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/opera-mini-for-iphone-to-be-revealed-next-week-available-never/
Don't be too quick to dismiss the 10.5 version. It's still in pre-alpha and already faster than chrome 5. Of course we're talking desktop versions here, but still don't be too quick to discard it.]]>Feb 10th 2010 11:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/opera-mini-for-iphone-to-be-revealed-next-week-available-never/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/opera-mini-for-iphone-to-be-revealed-next-week-available-never/
- Opera supports the most web standards by far.
- Opera 10.5 (the new beta) for me at least on peacekeeper is much faster than any other browser (including Chrome).
- It uses a lot less memory than Chrome and Firefox.
- The new skin for 10.5 so far is really great - and it does support skinning (and there are a lot of decent ones to choose from). Although to be fair all the browsers look pretty good or have skinning capabilities so I'm not going to count this one.
- Opera uses your cache for to go back/forward in your page history which is much much faster than other browsers (try it - its pretty much instant).
- Opera has a ton of features, I'm not gonna go through them indvidually but it has almost all the features I would want in a browser (the features it doesn't have I think are pretty insignificant). I know with extensions you can add basically all these features to Firefox or now Chrome with the new beta but from my experience after trying this the user made extensions are just never quite as good. It always give a far less polished experience.

I only mentioned a few things here that I find make the biggest difference for me but there a whole bunch of other features to take into account. What I would say is wait for 10.5 to be officially released (not too far off now) then try it for a week or so - you'd be surprised at what it can do.]]>Feb 10th 2010 11:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/opera-mini-for-iphone-to-be-revealed-next-week-available-never/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/opera-mini-for-iphone-to-be-revealed-next-week-available-never/Feb 10th 2010 11:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/opera-mini-for-iphone-to-be-revealed-next-week-available-never/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/opera-mini-for-iphone-to-be-revealed-next-week-available-never/
It's just like the IE case, except worse there is NO possibility to change.]]>Feb 10th 2010 4:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/opera-mini-for-iphone-to-be-revealed-next-week-available-never/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/opera-mini-for-iphone-to-be-revealed-next-week-available-never/Feb 10th 2010 4:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/opera-mini-for-iphone-to-be-revealed-next-week-available-never/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/opera-mini-for-iphone-to-be-revealed-next-week-available-never/
So Safari doesn't have a monopoly on the iphone? IE was only deemed to have a monopoly on windows based machines, not all computers in general, seems similar to me.]]>Feb 10th 2010 5:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/opera-mini-for-iphone-to-be-revealed-next-week-available-never/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/opera-mini-for-iphone-to-be-revealed-next-week-available-never/Feb 10th 2010 5:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/opera-mini-for-iphone-to-be-revealed-next-week-available-never/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/opera-mini-for-iphone-to-be-revealed-next-week-available-never/
"IE was only deemed to have a monopoly on windows based machines, not all computers in general"

IE has a monopoly on computers in general since computers in general are Windows! The other OSs don't come even close in marketshare.]]>Feb 10th 2010 7:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/opera-mini-for-iphone-to-be-revealed-next-week-available-never/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/opera-mini-for-iphone-to-be-revealed-next-week-available-never/Feb 10th 2010 9:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/opera-mini-for-iphone-to-be-revealed-next-week-available-never/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/opera-mini-for-iphone-to-be-revealed-next-week-available-never/
So the day microsoft hits 49% (If that day were to ever happen) they could force IE down our throats and get away with it?

Abusing a monopoly is abusing a monopoly, with or without marketshare.]]>Feb 10th 2010 9:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/opera-mini-for-iphone-to-be-revealed-next-week-available-never/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/opera-mini-for-iphone-to-be-revealed-next-week-available-never/I say why wait, drag them now.]]>Feb 10th 2010 10:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/opera-mini-for-iphone-to-be-revealed-next-week-available-never/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/opera-mini-for-iphone-to-be-revealed-next-week-available-never/Feb 10th 2010 11:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/opera-mini-for-iphone-to-be-revealed-next-week-available-never/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/opera-mini-for-iphone-to-be-revealed-next-week-available-never/
The monopoly we're talking about has nothing to do with marketshare.

It's the monopoly they have on software (More specifically web browsers) within their respective platforms. (Windows/OSX/iPhone OS)]]>Feb 10th 2010 11:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/opera-mini-for-iphone-to-be-revealed-next-week-available-never/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/opera-mini-for-iphone-to-be-revealed-next-week-available-never/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly]]>Feb 10th 2010 3:02PM