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Opera Mini for iPhone Passes Million-Download Mark

April 15th, 2010 | No Comments

Opera announced that more than one million Apple mobile device users had downloaded Opera Mini for iPhone by April 15, top-ranking the application in Apples App Store. Opera Mini for iPhone is identical to the companys mobile browser available on other smartphone platforms, and is built to emphasize fast-loading pages. Previous to Apples acceptance of the browser into the App Store, Opera co-founder Jon von Tetzschner told eWEEK that he was confident that Opera Mini for the iPhone would be accepted without reservations. He also suggested at the time that Opera desktop and mobile browsers are used by between 120 million and 150 million people worldwide.
– Opera Mini for iPhone has been downloaded onto more than one
million Apple devices, according to an April 15 press release by Opera, making
it the top-ranked mobile application in Apples App Store. The app was originally released on April 13.
Opera had originally submitted the free, iPhone-ce…


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Opera Plans Opera Mini for iPhone, Following Android and Windows Mobile

March 20th, 2010 | No Comments

Opera Software plans on releasing Opera Mini for the iPhone as an App Store application, according to the company’s co-founder, who publicly states that he anticipates no problems with Apple allowing the move. Opera has been disseminating Opera Mini to as many smartphone platforms as possible, including Google Android and Windows Mobile, as it attempts to preserve and maybe grow its market share in the mobile-browser arena. While the version of Opera Mini for the iPhone will include the same features as Opera Mini for other smartphones, it is also designed to sidestep the iPhone’s lack of multitasking. Opera has not publicly announced a release date for Opera Mini for the iPhone.
– Opera Software expects that Apple will allow Opera Mini onto the iPhone,
co-founder Jon von Tetzschner told eWEEK in a March 19 interview, and plans to
release the browser through the App Store at an unannounced point in the near
future.
quot;Our expectation is that Apple will allow it…


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