Opera Passes iPhone for Top Mobile Browser Spot
StatCounter is a web analytics firm that tracks a lot of mobile web statistics and their latest findings show Opera has just nudged the iPhone out of the top spot, based on number of pages served. StatCounter bases its statistics on 4 billion pages served monthly, so there is some merit in these findings. The statistics show that in May, out of all Internet pages downloaded to mobile devices globally, 24.6 percent of them were through Opera and 22.3 percent via the iPhone.
The two mobile browsers have been duking it out for a while and the top monthly spot keeps seesawing back and forth between the two. It looks like Opera gets the bragging rights for another month. Phone giant Nokia ranked third, with 17.9 percent of the pages served.
(via Yahoo Tech)
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just got the opera, either 8.5 or 9.5…can’t remember, it is a great browers but on my wing, where I have 13 mb free, it keeps crashing when I attempt to open video. It sends it to my windows media player.
I have the same problem with iris. where it says I am out of memory when i attempt to stream video.
I used xepisodes.com, movie2k.com and youtube as test sites.
Skyfire on the other hand with their 1.0.0 build streams almost seamlessly on the t-mobile data plan.
oh yeah, who needs apple any way. the mac attack is over.