Opera Mini for iPhone vs iPhone’s Safari browser

Opera Software company said that Apple should approve its Opera Mini Web browser for use on the iPhone, since because it is not "technically a browser" and thus doesn't compete with the iPhone's own browser, Safari.  They added up saying so since because, Apple is known to reject apps if they duplicate native iPhone features, but Opera claims its Opera Mini app works differently from the iPhone's Safari.Once if approved by Apple then Opera Mini Web browser could be a new way to surf the Web on the iPhone. Opera Mini is renowned for its compression technology, which results in significantly faster Web-page loading and reduces data surcharges. With favorite desktop features in its arsenal, such as tabs, Speed Dial and the password manager, Opera Mini is designed with usability in mind.


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The Safari browser uses the webkit rendering engine, so it’s great at loading full HTML web pages. Where as Opera claims that they have interpretation of HTML and Javascript gets done on a distant server and not there on the device, This means that unlike Safari, Opera Mini 5 doesn't use the iPhone's processor to render Web pages. Where as instead, they send requests to Opera computer servers located around the world, And so these computers do the computational heavy lifting and then send back compressed versions of Web pages to be displayed in the Opera Mini app. For this reason, Opera Mini is not a Web browser, but "an enabler,"  said Forrester,an Opera presales engineer, in the recently over Mobile World Congress (MWC).

Meanwhile Opera team demonstrated  at the CTIA Wireless conference, How Opera Mini was very responsive and loaded Web pages significantly faster than Safari because the Web pages are sent back compressed. Checkout the video below:



So now the million dollar question is will Apple accept the Opera's iPhone app submission,  We all have to wait for the results.

Meanwhile readers do let us know via comments below, Your opinion wether Apple should agree or not the Opera's submission

(Via: Techcrunch, Mobile World Congress, Opera, Intomobile)