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Opera Mini approved for iPhone

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Re: Opera Mini approved for iPhone

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Post by bruceboughton »

bruceboughton wrote: post #70

Scrolling requires repeated swipes. Links and buttons require multiple taps to activate, and some cannot be activate at all. (stay signed in checkbox on myOpenID). Initial zoom levep is useless with unreadable text. Zoomed in level feels too zoomed in without ability to adjust. But worst of all, the text area editor is custom--no autocorrection. This comment has takem far too long to edit. In short, a really poorly e…

Sorry for the typos--i was correcting as I went along if you can believe that.

Re: Opera Mini approved for iPhone

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Post by glymor »

naner wrote: post #53
jstevens85 wrote: post #51

Does anyone know how Opera makes money from this version? Surely the bandwidth and computational costs of processing, compressing and sending out webpages would exceed revenue from Google search, right?

Well they know every page everyone visits and everything they click on, etc. What does the privacy policy say?

Opera does not store any users’ private information. Opera generates statistics of the usage of Opera Mini, but these are aggregated numbers and no information can be linked to a single user.

http://www.opera.com/mobile/help/faq/#privacy

Re: Opera Mini approved for iPhone

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Post by zzzmarcus »

barlo wrote: post #56
rscott wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It doesn't scroll to the top of the page when you tap the status bar. Hate when apps neglect to do that.

It looks like you can scroll to the top by tapping the red title bar.

The red bar is gone in full-screen mode so it's one or the other; full screen or scroll to top.

Re: Opera Mini approved for iPhone

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Post by raquo »

jstevens85 wrote: post #51

Does anyone know how Opera makes money from this version? Surely the bandwidth and computational costs of processing, compressing and sending out webpages would exceed revenue from Google search, right?

Usually, OEMs pay Opera to have it preinstalled on their devices. That's obviously not the case with Apple...

Re: Opera Mini approved for iPhone

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Post by ttjervaag »

I wrote up my initial impressions here:

http://thedailyt.com/2010/04/opera-mini-for-the-iphone-initi...

I have to agree with most posters here. It's a nice start and I think it's a very good thing there's now a competing browser engine in the App Store. It has quite a few non-native feeling elements to it, so if they iron out the kinks and give it a bit more of an iPhone feel it'll be a good contender.

The usual Opera instant back function (no reloading of pages on clicking the back button) is killer!

Re: Opera Mini approved for iPhone

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Post by nailer »

gizmo wrote: post #35

First impressions: 1. it's very responsive. Much snappier than Safari; the difference is very noticeable. 2. pages download much quicker 3. zooming in and out is faster, but you only have two zoom levels. If you "pinch to zoom" it immediately zooms in all the way. 4. the home screen with 9 favorites works great 5. it's a little buggy (clicks don't always register) 6. killer feature #1: it automatically stores the ent…

Killer feature 3: instant back button.

Re: Opera Mini approved for iPhone

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Post by mhansen »

jodrellblank wrote: post #62
rscott wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It doesn't scroll to the top of the page when you tap the status bar. Hate when apps neglect to do that.

I would love it if shake-to-undo undid this. Hate when I tap it accidentally.

you never shake your phone accidentally?

Re: Opera Mini approved for iPhone

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Post by nailer »

danudey wrote: post #32
IgorPartola wrote: post #9

Firefox mobile next?

Unlikely. Opera Mini works by doing all the rendering on the server-side, and then sending the pre-rendered website to the client. It's not actually a browser, so much as an app that gets screenshots from a server-side browser. Firefox, on the other hand, would be a real browser, running Javascript rendering and Gecko on the phone itself, which would not be allowed. That said, I don't understand why anyone would want…

I don't think it's entirely image based - how can I search for text inside a page if it's sent as an image?

Re: Opera Mini approved for iPhone

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Post by mikeyur »

thought_alarm wrote: post #76

First impressions: 1. It renders pages in exactly the same way it does on my Blackberry. 2. The UI is just as awkward. Amazing.

Friend of mine:

"Opera Mini's flagrant disregard for UI conventions would get any other app rejected."

Pretty much sums up my thoughts. It's bad on so many levels and somehow received special treatment.

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