(4 votes, average: 4.50 out of 5)
This might be what lots of you have been waiting for, a browser (any browser!) that isn’t safari, for the iPhone and probably the iPad. Today, Opera have officially submitted the new Opera Mini 5 browser app to Apple for approval, if it gets through or not is another story!
The Opera Mini 5 browser brings some seriously cool features to the iPhone browser, firstly it supports multiple site loading (thank god!) for 5 tabs, it also has “instant” scrolling of page content along with the biggest feature “server side compress” which compresses page content by 90% on the server side, which increases your page loads remarkably. The official video above claims a 5-1 ratio of page load speed over safari, but is tested on 2.5g!
Take a guess at the time it will take apple to approve (or reject!) the app here, on the official site.
Honestly I don’t think this will get through, look at all the other apps have tried.
The most famous case… http://techcrunch.com/2009/07/27/apple-is-growing-rotten-to-the-core-and-its-likely-atts-fault/
So negative mate!
But, unfortunately, I’m sure you will probably be right here. Or will they cave into the pressure if the Opera campaign makes enough noise?
From your article title I thought it got approved. I’m not holding my breath.
Oh, puhleeze, nice people of Apple, give us something besides the scourge that is Safari.
For iPad users who hate safari and are looking for a multi tab browser.
Atomic web browser is terrific. 5 out of 5