Here’s a preview of Opera Mini on the iPhone, including a feature overview and a real world speed test. Apple seems likely to reject the Opera app, because they have previously blocked submissions that duplicate the capabilities of the iPhone’s built-in apps (in this case Safari). However, the Opera team said they are confident their new browser will be approved for the iPhone. We are not so sure.
One thing that’s sure though is the Opera Mini browser is lighting fast.
How I here you cry? Well, the Opera browser loads web pages rapidly by using a technology called server-side rendering, which compresses most aspects of a Web site on a server, sometimes reducing the load time of 90 percent of a Web page, before sending the data along to a phone‘s browser. Check out the video after the jump –
