opera mini submited to app store

iirc dosent all the sites you browse, go through a proxy for it to change shape size for whatever phone its on ?

so in essance opera will get hammerd and thus slow browsing ?
 
There is a link with the opera servers yes. When you call a url it goes off to operas servers to be optimised and then is displayed on the device so if it really takes off I can imagine it would get slow.
 
It's already in use by millions of people using Opera Mini and Opera Mobile, they have a large user base in Russia and other countries, so they should be able to handle a small percentage of iPhone users switching over.
 
Well apart from the one rule that say’s developers shouldn’t create applications that duplicate iPhone core functionality, even though Apple have already accepted a few web-kit browsers so far, they may not be so lenient on the big rival Opera.
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They could revoke it on that alone :( Lets hope not.
 
O2 (and by extension MobileSafari) already monkey with your content to some extent. Image quality gets crapified to reduce file size.
 
Never looked. It's always been noticeable to me and when I tethered to my laptop (using NetShare), it was very obvious on the better screen.
 
Just had a search, not sure if it only does this when you're tethering the iPhone, but o2 and Vodafone add some JavaScript to each page to reduce image quality.
 
It definitely happens with normal handset usage as well. I assume they are re-encoding images with increased compression and caching them on their own internal servers.
 
I call shenanigans on that video test.

The speed in which Opera is loading those pages suggests that it's been cached before, and the Safari browser is loading for the first time.

The Opera speed is more consistent with a decent 3G signal, not EDGE.
 
EVH said:
I call shenanigans on that video test.

The speed in which Opera is loading those pages suggests that it's been cached before, and the Safari browser is loading for the first time.

The Opera speed is more consistent with a decent 3G signal, not EDGE.
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You can see how fast cached pages load when they go back a page in the video, so I doubt they're trying to pull any tricks with the demo. It seems pretty consistent with what people at CES said when they used it.
 
wush said:
O2 (and by extension MobileSafari) already monkey with your content to some extent. Image quality gets crapified to reduce file size.
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Every mobile provider does though (well, to my knowledge - o2, vodafone and orange definitely do), it's done at the network level and nothing to do with the browser. Unless they're using a tunnelled connection of some kind it'll also effect opera mini...
 
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EVH said:
I call shenanigans on that video test.

The speed in which Opera is loading those pages suggests that it's been cached before, and the Safari browser is loading for the first time.

The Opera speed is more consistent with a decent 3G signal, not EDGE.
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No , they compress the site on there servers and then send it to you so say the site is 500kb normally once compressed its only 100kb so its faster.
 
I was quite shellshocked when I watched the videos of that in action. It's clearly done on a 3Gs anyway, but the sheer speed is startling vs Safari. If it makes browsing more pleasurable over useless o2 '3G' then I hope it happens...
 
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