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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.

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

Today Opera released Opera Mini 5 on the Android Market. Initial impressions from me are, it’s FAST! The compression done by Opera’s servers make pages render on your handset very quickly, even on a GPRS connection.

Engadget have posted a brief but nice little review of it here and seem just as impressed with its speed. If you’re an Android user, give it a spin! It’s free afterall!

Opera Mini on iPhone

Opera have announced that they are going to preview an iPhone version of its mobile browser at Mobile World Congress (MWC) this month.

Opera Software, maker of the world’s most popular mobile Web browser, plans to reveal Opera Mini for iPhone in an exclusive press and partner preview during the 2010 Mobile World Congress (MWC)

If the application will be submitted to Apple for release on the app store or if it will get rejected is unknown at this point but it’s interesting to see that Opera have taken the effort to release develop the app on the iPhone.

Hopefully, an Android version will be released as I used to love Opera Mobile on Symbian and would like to try it again on my Nexus One.

Source: Opera press release