Opera has just announced its intentions to deliver Opera Mini for the iPhone, and will unveil the browser at Mobile World Congress on February 15th in Barcelona.
Promising to be “fast, easy to use, and packed with favorite Opera features”, the browser will reportedly come with tabs and Speed Dial.
Jon von Tetzchner, Opera’s Co-founder said, “We have not submitted it yet to the Apple App Store. However, we hope that Apple will not deny their users a choice in Web browsing experience,” said Jon von Tetzchner, co-founder of Opera.
For a long time, Apple denied browser competitors the opportunity to run on its celebrated iPhone claiming it duplicated standard iPhone functionality. For one reason or another, Apple reversed their decision and most recently, the company approved a new iPhone browser called Mercury, described as “the best replacement for Safari”.
With Apple’s change in policy, it shouldn’t be long before we see the likes of Firefox and Chrome on the iPhone, although no plans have been announced.
will be curious to see whether Apple will APP-rove this one :)
Opera is smart. First generate publicity, and then submit it to the Apple Store.
So Mercury is not using Safari's webkit engine to render pages? Because that's what Opera surely wants to do.
It's be exciting to see how this one plays out :)
i used opera for windows and palm. but don't see it's advantage for iphone though.
No, Opera has its own engine. It will not use WebKit.
Yes, that's what I'm expecting. Should have been more clear.
But I just don't see it happening.
Compression to save bandwidth and money, and speed things up. And better features.
great choice :)
have a nice day , apple and opera..
damn it, apple and opera.. no way man !!
The iPhone just got a new browser ( Opera )