What's Your Experience With OperaMini on the iPhone?

Looks like Apple has decided to let OperaMini into their AppStore and within just a couple of days it has become hugely successful according to Engadget here. Being a long time user of OperaMini and knowing about its strength and advantages in bandwidth constrained and high outage environments when moving in trains, cars, etc. I can imagine why everybody seems to rush to it. But not having an iPhone myself I'd be interested from you what your experiences are if you tried it!

Comments

[valdas]

well, I'm using it occasionally, but didn't notice advantages in speed or reliability. I still use safari more often, and should say, I feel more comfortable on safari. Maybe I just need more time to work on it. Sorry for subjective opinion though :).

[laketroll]

short speedtest with O2 UMTS:

loading macnews.de
safari: 30s till I can read the first article, 90s to load it complete
opera: 30s till I can read the first article, 50s to load it complete

loading Spiegel.de
safari: 15s till I can read the first article, 30s to load it complete
opera: 25s till I can read the first article, 25s to load it complete, but
it loads only the mobile version of the webpage, what is annoying, even I configured opera to load the standard web page

so no reason for me to switch to opera (at least to this version) on the iPhone

[Wayne]

here is a test report:

http://lifehacker.com/5516038/browser-speed-tests-iphones-mobile-safari-vs-opera-mini

[raman kondapi]

Been a long time opera mini user (at least 7 years !!) and iPhone for the past 2 years - after Safari Opera Mini just seems bland, in-sufficient, but does load pages faster specially on a 2G/EDGE network. So I am using OperaMini only when I lose my 3G coverage, and in Singapore, where I live, it doesn't happen that often. Few things need to be fixed, but overall experience is quite poor compared to Safari. In my opinion that is the main reason Apple released it !!

[bernard]

Hi Martin,

My better half (whom says hello by-the-way!) has used it alot on her iPhone. Her main issue with it is it seems to be recognised as a mobile browser via the user-agent and gets served a mobile version of the site in question. Where the default (but horrible) Safari always gets served the "full page". (Something she has written about here: http://is.gd/ceCtQ - sorry for the plug :))