Opera Mini will be shown running on an iPhone at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this month, although the company has yet to get the application through Apple's rigorous vetting process.
Apple has been anything but accommodating when it comes to allowing rival browsers onto the iPhone, but Opera's open statement of intent over the platform does, at the very least, sound confident of success.
Opera Mini is a popular mobile browser, and could prove a competitor to the pre-installed Sarafi browser that is already on the iPhone.
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"We are thrilled to offer journalists and partners an exclusive preview of Opera Mini for iPhone during the year's biggest mobile event," said Jon von Tetzchner, Co-founder, Opera Software.
"This is a unique opportunity to introduce the fast, feature-rich Opera Mini experience for the iPhone, and to showcase our latest beta releases of Opera Mobile and Opera Mini on other platforms and devices.
"Opera's mission is to bring the Web to the world, and by making Opera Mini available on yet another platform, we are one step closer."
The browser running on a iPhone will be just one of Opera's showcases with the company also trailing Opera Mobile 10 beta 3 on Symbian S60 and Windows Mobile handsets, Opera Mobile 10 beta running on Android handsets, Mini 5 beta, running 'on a variety of handsets and platforms' and the company's cross-platform Widgets Manager beta, running on Windows Mobile and S60 handsets.
But it will be the iPhone browser that garners the most attention, and raise the question as to whether Opera Mini will soon be making a public appearance on an Apple handset near you.
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tech89
February 10th 2010
5. Does Opera mini include flash plug-in? If so, I'm sold. Apple is being anti-competitive with its App policy. Sooner or later companies will give up making good apps for Apple App Store, people's patience with Apple is limited.
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castaway666
February 10th 2010
4. I'm always in the streets burning effigies of Steve Ballmer. lol.
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grafight
February 10th 2010
3. Hmmm could Apple's App Store and its App store policing policy fall foul of US and EU competition laws? This whole idea of rejecting an app because it offers duplicate functionality (whether or not the new app is superior to the Apple app or not) seems to be the very definition of anti competition. If Microsoft tried to pull this type of move we'd all be in the streets burning effigies of Steve Balmer! For some reason because this is being executed by our beloved Apple we're all ignoring it. Maybe it’s because when it was just a phone we were willing to put up with whatever apps were available, but as the App Store space mores to the iPad, which is essentially a laptop / netbook replacement I think we'll all start to lose our patience. Apple needs to think about opening the iphone / ipod / ipad OS up quickly to competitive apps or risk a bloody nose from EU competition regulators and a serious dent its very public halo.
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castaway666
February 10th 2010
2. does this still mean no flash support?
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bobbdobbs
February 10th 2010
1. on the iPhone if Apple can get away with it.. not a chance. excuse: duplicate functionality, wrong colour, my mummy told me and/or Opera smells like an old tramp
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