Opera Mini on iPhone review
Overall, Opera Mini brings enough to the table to become an essential part of your mobile browsing life, boasting superior speed on low-end networks and an extremely useful home screen portal that will drastically limit the amount of typing you do on a daily basis.
That said, it isn’t perfect and, overall, Opera can’t deliver the same seamless end-user experience that Safari can. However, it is early days yet and issues such as lag and the occasional glitch will no doubt be ironed out with updates.
Until then, you’ve got Opera Mini for speed on 2G/3G networks and Safari for pleasure – which isn’t really a bad deal at all when you think about it.
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Another nice little feature...
Opera has another nice little feature, in that it allows you to search within a web page. For some reason Apple (along with many other mobile application developers) appear to regard in-page searching as redundant on a mobile device. Actually, it's even more useful on a mobile than it is on a desktop. But Safari has no 'Find' function at all. Opera does, on the other hand, and this feature, combined with its speed over 2G/EDGE networks, has made it my favourite browser. The speed more than makes up for the occasional crash (which is usually clean, in my experience).
By Reddibrek on Friday May 28
Not too shabby
Good review, very well balanced.
By RJD123 on Tuesday Jun 1