I had such high hopes for this application. I thought when it came out that it would be the panacea to the web browsing issues of the iPhone that it claimed to be. Unfortunately I have to say that I am disappointed by the initial launch.
Problem #1: The sites that i visit don’t recognize that i am on a mobile device and serve up their entire site. Unfortunately for Opera it renders horribly. At least in Safari I would get a decent looking render that was entirely too small for me to read and then had to mess around with trying to resize.
Problem# 2: Redirection, any time I click a link in Facebook and go through the redirection process it just sticks on the redirect page. In fairness this might be an issue with Facebook rather than the Opera browser but the average user is going to blame in on the browser since it worked as they expected in Safari.
Problem# 3: This app was released before it was ready for the mainstream. I put the app on my wife’s phone and she has constantly complained about the functionality while using it. This is a huge blow for the adoption of Opera for the iPhone. it needed to come out working like a champ for all users and applications.
I will say that it is indeed much faster than Safari, but speed isn’t everything. Being a software developer I understand that the initial release is always fraught with peril, and as a geek I will continue to support Opera, use the application and provide feedback, but for now I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone that just expects or wants their web browser to work.
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