We had a brief chat with Opera Software product analyst Phillip Grønvold here at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on Tuesday. We had a conversation about the company’s plans to submit an Opera Mini iPhone app up for App Store approval, of which we posted the video interview yesterday.
Another thing we touched upon was the recently announced plans to provide handset manufacturers with a toolkit to get the company’s Opera Mobile product preloaded on Android devices. Grønvold demoed the app running on Google’s Nexus One phone, and we recorded the video of the app in action, embedded above.
Note: again, this isn’t a consumer product, but an OEM offering. Opera Software says it works closely with many manufacturers around the world and hopes to get Android handsets with Opera Mobile pre-installed into the hands of consumers by the end of this year.
The company also points out you can download its lightweight mobile browser, Opera Mini, from Android Market today (we also know Opera is working on getting Opera Mini 5 in the store ‘soon’).
Opera Software is doing a really nice job.
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Oh well which is better, this one? or the android fennec? http://bit.ly/android-firefox-details
Can’t wait!
I think for now Opera is still better because they have so much more experience developing mobile apps.
Thank you!
my bet is on the firefox fennec
Too bad Firefox is too bloated and slow :(
Opera has the best mobile browser. I am sure they will try to use all the features that android has to do a mobile browser quite nice. This is the start in my opinion!
Interesting, I have to wonder if this is really is mobile (not mini) how they are handling rendering with JNI/NDK. I have been using Opera Mobile 10b1 on Windows Mobile and it’s quite nice when compatibility with Mobile Safari UA works.
why not 10b3?
ha, yeah. whatever the latest one is.
Just went to download it, but the reviews were horrible. I think ill stick with my dolphin for now till they get it fixed up
That’s Opera Mini, not Opera Mobile.
That’s Opera Mini 4. Opera Mini 5 is completely new, and looks and behaves like Opera Mobile.
Landscape mode fail…
Oh My God!
A demo didn’t work 100%!
OH MY GOD!
The only missing link as compared to the Safari browser of the iphone is the Java Virtual Machine! Online banking in Austria works only on the iphone, because of a JVM missing in Opera and Dolphine browsers for Android.
The iPhone does not support Java. It has no JVM.
So how come a JavaApplet runs within the Safari Browser flawlessly??
Where are these Java applets? Show me a couple of examples, please.
The iPhone does not support Java applications of any kind. Steve Jobs has been quoted as saying “Java’s not worth building in. Nobody uses Java anymore. It’s this big heavyweight ball and chain.”