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Opera’s bandwith saving browser has been approved by Apple and is now availabe for download.

The browser connects to Opera’s servers which compresses websites server side and the compressed site is sent to the phone.

This can result in vastly improved browsing speeds when browsing using a slower GPRS or Edge connection and even helps full on 3g connections!

Available now in the Apple app store.

Anrdoidlib have posted updated stats for Application submissions for the month of March which shows a staggering 9308 application submissions!

Application submissions by month - Androidlib.com

Android Market is growing healthily and now has a over 40,000 apps and games in the Android market, not a bad statistic. It’s still dwarfed by Apple’s App store but both stores already have an immense selection of applications and games to choose from now that customers of either platform should have plenty of variety. More graphs and information can be found in the link below

Source: Androidlib.com

Opera today have submitted their iPhone version of Opera Mini to Apple for approval on the app store and have posted a video of the advantages of their server side compression at work on an EDGE connection.

With an impressive 5 pages loaded to Safari’s one page on EDGE, it really does show how the browser will benefit those with low signal. Opera have aslo posted a competition where you can guess the approval date and the closest guess will win an iPhone! Some are seeing this as Opera putting pressure on Apple to approve it swiftly and to stop them from denying it altogether as Apple will undoubtedly get some bad press if it is rejected for a trivial reason.

Head on over to the competition page (if you hadn’t earlier) to submit your guess to try and win an iPhone 3G

Source: Opera

Here is another quick video showing Raging Thunder 2 running on the iPod Touch & the Nexus One

Whilst both games seem to run exactly the same, the Nexus One has the benefit of a higher resolution screen meaning it is running at a higher resolution than the iPod touch (480 x 320 pixels on the iPod, 800 x 480 on the Nexus One).

Apologies for not being able to “steer” the cars. My hands were full with the camera.

I’ve just uploaded a video of Raging Thunder 2 racing game from Polarbit running on the Nexus One.

It’s the best Android game I’ve seen so far and plays really well! It’s available on both Apple’s App Store and the Android Market.

More: Raging Thunder II

Yesterday, the BBC announced that they are to release an application on three different smartphone platforms.

Core public services BBC News and BBC Sport to be repurposed for a wide range of smartphones, including iPhone, Blackberry and Android mobiles

The BBC today announced that it is to offer a new range of applications that will deliver BBC Online services to a range of mobile devices

The apps will be released on the iPhone in April with BlackBerry and android applications to follow on later in the year.

Sources: Phandroid, BBC Press Release

An article on PC World explains that a developer who mentioned his success in the Android Developer Challenge has been asked to rewrite the description for his app.

The Flash of Genius app was a finalist in the Challenge, and Novikoff thought including that information in the description could help illustrate the program’s value and increase its iPhone-based sales. Apple evidently didn’t agree; Novikoff says he received a notice from Apple’s app approval department that stated the following:

“During our review of your application, we found that your application contains inappropriate or irrelevant platform information in the Application Description and/or Release Notes sections.
“While your application has not been rejected, it would be appropriate to remove ‘Finalist in Google’s Android Developer’s Challenge!’ from the Application Description.

More on the story in the link below.

Source: PC World