Opera to show off Mini for iPhone at MWC

By on Feb 10, 2010 at 10:18 AM
Software February 10, 2010

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Listen: It took six months of the App Store’s existence for Apple to approve the first batch of third-party browsers for the iPhone and iPod touch. It was a pretty damn exciting event because it was the sort of app everyone was used to being rejected because it replicates native features of the iPhone OS. Well, since then Apple rejected some pretty prolific apps for the same asinine reason to the point that even the flippin’ government took notice and started asking questions. And now, today, we have a new potential app disaster on our hands because Opera, the third-party mobile browser powerhouse, announced it will be previewing Opera Mini for iPhone next week at Mobile World Congress. Opera seems to think its app will be able to slide through the approval processes without issue, but we’re not going to get our hopes up just yet.

Totally random thought we’re just going to throw out there: Anyone think AT&T might be keen on seeing Opera Mini approved? Just think of the Draino of a job Opera’s data compression technology might do to unclog the long, hippie hair stuck in AT&T’s data pipes.

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  • http://www.stolk.org Bram Stolk

    If opera comes to iPhone, the please, please, please let it be *without* flash crap.
    There is a perfectly good vector graphics standard called SVG, which works well on iPhone (well done Apple).

    Flash needs to die as soon as possible.
    Imagine what would have happened if HTML was proprietary! There is no place for proprietary formats on the web.

  • leslie

    Me? I’ll stick to the one that I prefer the most —Firefox will begin showing up on mobile devices at the end of this year. I got the chance to test a beta version of Firefox on a pre-release mobile device. The browser, code-named Fennec, is the closest thing yet to a real, desktop-class browser for mobiles.

    Wow, its about time that Firefox

  • HO

    God heavens u and ur trolling again, somebody from BGR should get ur ip and get u ban forever…

    Btw, Fennec is the mobile version but they just released Firefox on Maemo which also can point to a FF mobile version of it’s own, yet again Maemo is very robust for a mobile OS.

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