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Opera Mini for iPhone Submitted, Official Video Preview

The day has finally come: today Opera has submitted the iPhone version of its browser to the App Store, and now it’s up to Apple to approve it.

Opera Mini, which is already available on other smartphones, is one of the leading browsers in the mobile scene, sporting a nice looking user interface and its well-known speed, achieved with to a compression method that involves Opera’s servers (like proxies) that should make the browsing experience a lot faster than MobileSafari’s one.

Whether this is good or not (would you redirect your traffic to an external server?), we can’t wait to find out how Opera compares to the other browsers available for iPhone OS, especially when for the navigation itself.

To get a better hang of how Opera Mini for iPhone works, you can watch the official preview video embedded below.

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