Opera Mini for Iphone/IPod Touch

It was approved by Apple..

now what?

I'm quite happy with Safari on my IPod Touch, it is fast and responsive unlike other web browser that ever approved by Apple before for the IPhone OS.

Appearance

It was designed with simplicity in mind, if you have been using the iPhone/iPod Touch for a time being, it wont be any steep learning curve to learn how to Opera Mini. On my first run of it, i was greeted with some tips and tricks of the Opera Mini (no one ever need it i think) :-) .. The main element of the Opera Mini is the popular speed dial. It comes with 9 slot for users to customize. Customizing the speed dial slot was a breeze, just tap a little longer on the tile and it will prompt you whether to remove or edit, it just common sense. The second element in this apps is the bottom bar where you can find the setting, refresh button and the tabs. To view the tabs you have opened, you just need to tap on the tabs tile, then it will show you small tilled style preview of every tabs running in background, so no interruption when you're checking the tabs. This is what i've been waiting for in Safari, no browsing interruption while i'm checking the tabs.

Speed

The dirty secret which makes the Opera for mobile so fast is the preprocessing of the web data on the Cloud to make the data size and the browsing speed too be blazingly fast. It compress the web and makes less data transfered to your device thus lowering the loading speed and may save few bucks if you're not on unlimited Data plan. Plus, your web wont be rendered on the device, thus reserving the CPU resource. When you are in the go or kind of need any quick info you can always check the lowest image quality from the settings so that you can have a relatively fast browsing effect.

Browsing

I couldn't review on browsing speed as i'm using a very slow wifi connection at home. I dont know how to describe this, the pinch to zoom gesture seems to work but not perfectly like on the Safari. If you apply the pinch, there is no intermediate level of zoom for example when you zoom it will zoom all the way up and if you pinch again it will go all the way down.

++ Feature

1.Find in page( find a word in the opened tab)

2.Font size changer(user can choose from small medium large) good for the elderly. It such a emotional moment to see my parents struggling to read the text on my iPod, i really hope I can help them :-)