(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.
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March 25th, 2010 at 7:44 am
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/
March 25th, 2010 at 8:12 am
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?
March 27th, 2010 at 6:42 am
From your article title I thought it got approved. I’m not holding my breath.
March 29th, 2010 at 11:01 am
Oh, puhleeze, nice people of Apple, give us something besides the scourge that is Safari.
April 22nd, 2010 at 7:14 pm
For iPad users who hate safari and are looking for a multi tab browser.
Atomic web browser is terrific. 5 out of 5