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Tech Mania

Posted: 16 Apr 2010 12:50 PM PDT

Opera mini has been approved and is now available on iTunes. Once this app is installed you would get the default Opera screen with links to Facebook, twitter etc.Opening a new tab is a single touch and loading virtually any homepage is quick. While scrolling through the loaded page, some images don’t fully render until you stop over them. Multitouch is enabled to some extent you can pinch to zoom, and double tapping only fully zooms in and out.

One more feature is the find functionality which highlights the word searched for.Opera mini is a grand success as within the first day only its been the number one free download in all the 22 app stores.Opera Mini was downloaded more than one million times in its first day of availability in each market.According to Apple's download count, Opera Mini has been added to 1,023,380 Apple devices.Reviews, indicate that Opera Mini delivers up to six times the speed, especially on congested networks, and significant Web-page compression to keep roaming and pay-per-MB costs at a minimum.

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Lars Boilesen, CEO, Opera Software quotes

Today iPhone users have a choice, and, as the numbers show, they are eager to explore new and faster ways to surf the Web on the iPhone – especially during heavy Web traffic.With any widely available and frequently downloaded Opera product, we are appreciative of all the feedback we are getting, as it helps us to continually improve our product and better meet the needs of our users.

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So go download the app now.

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