Opera Software has submitted the iPhone version of its Mini browser to Apple for App Store approval, Opera said on Tuesday.
That browser version was first shown at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona in February, and Opera has since worked hard at getting the product as much attention as possible.
Opera is convinced that the browser will be approved by Apple, because of the improved speed it offers compared to Safari and the fact that it already has 50 million users, according to Tor Odland, head of communications at Opera. Internal testing shows that Opera Mini will be up to six times faster than Apple's Safari browser, according to Opera. The increased speed is in large part because Mini uses a proxy server to compress and reformat Web pages before they are transmitted to the phone.
More: http://infoworld.com/d/mobilize/opera-submits-mini-browser-iphone-apple-493
That browser version was first shown at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona in February, and Opera has since worked hard at getting the product as much attention as possible.
Opera is convinced that the browser will be approved by Apple, because of the improved speed it offers compared to Safari and the fact that it already has 50 million users, according to Tor Odland, head of communications at Opera. Internal testing shows that Opera Mini will be up to six times faster than Apple's Safari browser, according to Opera. The increased speed is in large part because Mini uses a proxy server to compress and reformat Web pages before they are transmitted to the phone.
More: http://infoworld.com/d/mobilize/opera-submits-mini-browser-iphone-apple-493
