Opera Mini 5 aims to become the preferred mobile browser on a range of smartphone platforms, including Apple's mobile OS.
Opera Software has seen tremendous success with its Opera Mini browser, currently preferred by more than 50 million mobile users. The upcoming Opera Mini 5, which is now available in beta, aims to take it all to a new level by offering a revamped user interface as well as several improvements directly related to becoming an alternative to well-known browsers provided out-of-box on smartphones.
Opera Mini is already a popular browser on Symbian phones, and Opera Mini 5 aims to become a widely used browser on Android and Windows Mobile phones as well. Additionally, Opera Software is currently working on Opera Mini 5 for iPhone, and CNN reports that it could only be weeks away from being submitted to Apple's App Store.
It remains to be seen whether Apple will actually approve the application, though Opera Software feels it wouldn't compete directly with the iPhone browser. If you ask us, it seems like Apple's App Store strategy is now slowly moving towards offering more quality apps though, and then it'll be nearly impossible to decline an application of the Opera Mini 5 caliber regardless of what it'll compete with and not.
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