techcrunch.com — Opera Mini for iPhone is up to 6 times faster than the native browser thanks to its compression technology. Opera says users who pay carriers per MB or roam a lot, will be able to reduce browsing cost up to 90%.
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neotechniFeb 11, 2010
Um, IGN rated it as one of the worst/slowest browsers ever
hardeep1singhFeb 11, 2010
10.5 beta has been released today
raumschiffFeb 12, 2010
There are, as we type, plenty of alternative browsers in the App Store. It's just that they use Webkit.
khyberkitsuneFeb 12, 2010
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mrbitchFeb 13, 2010
@ bjornski, I'm interested, can you please tell me, as I can't find any existing iPhone feature that does what Opera Mini does.Which existing iPhone "feature" sends your browser session (with state, cookies, passwords) over to a server operated by Opera via a thin client (Opera Mini) ?
brainflakesFeb 13, 2010
Hey @khyberkitsune are you still trolling or do you really not understand how image compression works?JPEGs are lossy compressed and have adjustable quality/compression ratio.. You can therefore re-compress a JPEG at a lower quality. Try it, open a JPEG in photoshop, hit "Save as", then in the JPEG options select the lowest quality.Notice how much smaller the new file is? (and how much worse the picture looks) Opera mini does this, and goes one step further and reduces the image dimensions too, further reducing the file size.<a class="user" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lossy_compression" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lossy_compression</a><a class="user" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG</a>GIFs are losslessly compressed, but you can still reduce their filesize by resizing, reducing the number of colours, converting to low quality jpeg etc.
Closed AccountFeb 16, 2010
"This is completely wrong. Pure FUD."Really? FUD huh?.<a class="user" href="http://www.opera.com/mini/help/faq/#encryption" rel="nofollow">http://www.opera.com/mini/help/faq/#encryption</a>&quot;Note that the encryption is only available in the advanced version of Opera Mini, and not in the basic version. In the basic version, and in older versions of Opera Mini, the connection between the Opera Mini client and the Opera Mini transcoder server will always be unencrypted."