Mark Hattersley from MacWorld shares his thoughts about Opera for iPhone so far. Read the full entry here.

“Those familiar with Opera for Mobile will be aware that this is because of highly optimised code taking place away from the browser on Opera’s servers. Instead of contacting a server directly you are sending a request to the Opera server, which optimises the web site and pushes a compressed version to the iPhone.

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t’s a fairly round specced browser as well. It has tabs (highly visual ones at the bottom of the screen) and passwords, bookmarks, and all the usual features. Like Safari on the iPhone you can zoom in automatically to text columns. But deep down it’s the speed that matters.

We note that the app we’re shown is marked Opera 5 Beta 2, and Opera has clearly been down this route before.”