Despite many people thinking it would be rejected Apple have actually allowed Opera Mini for iphone into the app store.

I was looking forward to this and expecting to be using it instead of safari, but unfortunately...its rubbish.

It may well be faster at loading some pages, but it renders lots of pages badly, the text on many pages can't be read without zooming, and zooming is impossbile to control.

Maybe they were hoping it would be rejected, because the version that's been released does Opera no favours.

Been looking forward to this for ages, but I'm decidedly underwhelmed so far. I need to spend more time getting familiar with it, and only really been able to test over 3G at the moment. I've tried on a wireless network at work, and it just refuses to load any web page at all (Safari works fine). Could this be related to how Opera have got this app past the Cupertino Cops i.e. by doing the rendering on an external proxy server?

The Android version is no better, and I remember having the same troubles with Mozilla for Windows Mobile some years ago. I'm sure it will get better, although I'm sceptical of most things so maybe not.