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what's up everyone jon rettinger from technobuffalo here I want to give you an overview and demonstration of the just-released opera mini for the iphone and ipod touch 3rd party browsers for the iDevices are nothing new they've been out for well over a year but a viable third-party browser we really haven't seen yet opera is a browser that has tons of market penetration if you are a blackberry user odds are it's on your phone if your windows mobile user odds are your browser of choice we've really seen it on a variety of platforms but not yet on the iphone OS let me give a quick overview what this looks like and as you can see by my background i am running iphone OS four point oh which could make things run a bit a little bit weird so let me open this up for you and to give you guys may be a bit of a bigger demonstration of it let's push the iphone off to the side let's do this demonstration here on the iPad you can get a little of a bigger view of what opera looks like we'll just search stretch it out so we're going to add in launching here you can see there's the icon it's a free download available now from the app store we've got double the size here so it should be double the presentation fun now I've got introduction screen loaded up here cuz I want to show you some of the key features of opera mini so first tab browsing and I'll show you all of these this sort of con this is speed dial if you've used sense or sense UI on Windows Mobile this is going look very familiar to what you get with won't a contact speed dial long click menu something that we've seen actually with the iPad and now integrated here on other devices i remembers passwords and opera link synchronize your bookmarks speed dial in search engines between all your mobile phone desktop computers that's one of the biggest advantages of opera is that without any plugins automat they will sync everything for you so let's go ahead and get to the good stuff we'll go ahead and hit the tab button here actually before we do that let me show you some of the settings so you've got a big sort of wrench in the corner and you've got a grid of 7 icons bookmarks history start page saved pages settings find in pain and help the help is where that screen was that i just showed you bookmarks pull up your list of bookmarks will go ahead and go back history obviously your history and start page is what they were talking about by that sort of speed dial looking thing you can set all the pages you want here these are the six that comes standard technobuffalo unfortunately you're gonna have to add on your own let me go ahead and show you what the load times look like here we'll go ahead and on TechnoBuffalo and operas one of those services that actually does some of the rendering on the server side and then push it to the device so oftentimes you see much quicker rendering so you look at it right here at launched very quickly around a standard 802 11 n connection the text is a little bit small but you can change that I'll show you double tap to zoom is still there and see how quickly jumps around pinch-to-zoom still certainly works panning and scrolling is very smooth I really want the big benefits of operas it's a low time that loads just very very quickly so the text is small you go ahead and change the default text size it's set by small sort of standard you can go to medium or of course large okay recommend because you clearly can turn anything here but if you zoom in you get sort of a more clear view if there's you that I know we're going to ask this doesn't have flash working in it you're going to get sort of the same functionality that you're going to get with mobile safari so go ahead and zoom out and you can get rid of that top bar and the options you have a show full screen have the menu bar at the bottom go away one of the cool things that I really do like about opera mini I sort of the search engine stuff here so similar what you see it on Firefox or other browsers you get a ton of search plugins up by default Google Amazon eBay wikipedia and you can manage them and turn them off hopefully at some point if able to add more too I love an IMDB one in there so I'll go ahead and go back let me show you some the other sort of cool features the tabbed browsing is actually very neat let me go and open up a new page here we'll go ahead and launch new york times and let that launched its kind of cool to see it like it doesn't move doesn't move and all sudden just jumps and the page is already loaded we'll go ahead and launch another one here let's go ahead and pay facebook so tab browsing is really neat sort of get this layer that shows up you can scroll through very smoothly to see the different icons and go right to the one you want jump right to it of course the X means close it go ahead and jump right in technobuffalo so sort of multitasking the background if you look at some of the tab browsing that you get on the iPad or iPhone or iPod touch you can jump between pages but oftentimes the pages you're going to reload they've been sitting stagnant for too long not the case here at the upper MIDI they will stay loaded in the background let me show you some of the other options that you're going to get so we just showed you start page saved pages saved pages the setting is really where a lot of your customization is going to be so load images if you want to speed it up and have your pages load blister in the fact that you turn off the image loading image quality set that and all these settings are sort of optimized for speed mobile view so instead of getting the full view of sites we get the mobile version full experience without talking about by getting rid of the bar at the top of the bottom opera link that'll link up all your bookmark talked about that earlier you get some privacy settings i'll show you what those are you guys are interested remember passwords clear history clear cookies make sure no one knows what sites you were checking out and some Advanced Options protocol start page links if you guys want to see what those options are HTTP or socket I'll go ahead and go back and continuing our look at the settings you get find in page which is actually really neat sort of like a search go right to the page so you can go ahead and hit search you can type in whatever you're looking for and it will search there so there's an example the iPad it will find next and just as a reminder for people this is an iphone application I've got blown up on the iPad that's why I've got the iphone looking keyboard here not the iPads keyboard sort of a cool functionality will go ahead and get rid of that we'll go ahead done and if you go ahead and hit the button on the left it'll sort of get everything back to where you were refresh your page obviously and if you let's say you want to you know type in the URL of course do that right at the top and it sort of disappears as you start to scroll you go back up it will jump back up to the top I've used opera mini when I was a blackberry user when I was a windows mobile user it was my browser of choice it's reliable it's very fast you're not going to get as I don't think an elegant experience as you get on mobile safari but if speed is your thing if you want to get your pages long as quickly as possible there really isn't much of a compare I will show you a bit of a speed test well this is going to be very unscientific because it's based on horsepower but I will load TechnoBuffalo refresh it here on the iPad and I will load it up on the iphone both on the same network and I recognize this is a very unscientific test again because of processor speed but in case you want to see how quickly things load I will show you technobuffalo of course has been loaded on both these devices and I'll do a simple refresh on each so you guys can see the speed so here we've got the site all keyed up ready to go and here we've got it all keyed up ready to go on the iphone I'll sort of put it right there so you can see it and I will refresh both hopefully the same time which is actually harder than you think it would be at least close to the same time there we go so this is mobile safari this of course is opera so opera is already done Mobile Safari is still loading now what if we reverse those and we do mobile safari on the iPad and we do opera mini on the iphone let's check that out to see if these speeds are representative okay so I've got the sites ready to go on both devices we've got mobile safari here on the ipad now and we've got opera mini on the iphone and we expect probably that opera mini on the iphone will load it faster although the horsepower of the ipad may push it through we'll go and check and i'll do the sort of the Refresh test here let me go ahead and open both these up or try and hit load them at the same time which like I said is more difficult than you'd expect it to be so close to the same time we see the ipad looks like it's showing content first nope mobiles the Opera Mini is still loaded it faster they're looking at just a raw speed test clearly Opera Mini is faster even with the 400 megahertz faster and optimized processor that the ipad has still on the same mobile network this loaded much faster this is great news for you unlocked iphone users for maybe using it on an edge network you're going to notice a huge speed increase any guys and jon rettinger from technova hope you enjoyed the overview and hit the head of the the ipad and iphone when showing you offer mini for all your tech news be sure to check out technobuffalo com we can create and monetize your own tech website even interact with users in our built-in social network and for exclusive content sure to check me out at twitter twitter com / john for lakers i'll see you the next video bye bye