Andre Yoskowitz
15 Apr 2010 0:25
Submitted last month and accepted just yesterday by Apple, the Opera Mini 5 application is now at the head of all "Top Apps" lists, from every country in which the App Store is available.
There are over 50 million Opera Mini users globally.
Opera Mini uses Opera's servers to render and compress pages, thus increasing speed for the end user, and also working around Apple's stringent rules.
The company says users of the iPhone over AT&T's slower 2G Edge data will definitely feel the "uptake in speed."
Whether all the downloads are just a curiosity or proof that iPhone/iPod Touch users are looking for choice within their hardware remains to be seen, but it seems pretty clear that Opera will be gaining a significant amount of users.
Pic via Engadget