Surprisingly, Apple has approved the Opera Mini mobile web browser for the iPhone and iPod touch. Let us see whether this app will hit the top iPhone applications in utility category or not. It was announced by Opera yesterday. The app will be available in the app store in coming 24 hours. Since, the app has been approved by App store.

It is hoped that Opera’s mini browser app will revolutionized the race for browsers type applications for iPhone. We did not expect the app to be approved by Apple, based on its rejection of other apps in the past that shared functionality with the iPhone’s built-in apps. However, Opera informed that they did this one “by the book” and did everything possible to be compliant with Apple’s app store policies. There had been a dispute between Opera and Apple in the past. The mini mobile browser of Opera has been reported the subject of dispute. People believed that this Opera app for mobile browser would be rejected by Apple because it directly competed with Apple built app - Safari. Keeping this point in view, Opera built and submitted the application anyway. Opera turned this into media event by creating a counter and showing that how much time had passed since the company submitted the Opera mini to App store. The question is still there, whether this new app will support iPhone 3G applications or it has been specifically designed for iPhone 4Gs?