Opera Browser Beats iPhone Safari In Popularity Contest

It is that time of bragging once again, and this time round the combination of Opera Mobile and Opera Mini proved too much to handle for iPhone’s Safari browser, as Opera’s browsers took 24.6% of the total number of Web pages downloaded last month on handsets compared to the 22.3% that Apple’s Safari mustered. Depending on how you look at it, some might argue that iPhone’s Safari still comes out tops as Opera has the advantage of its software being distributed through a wide variety of carriers and handsets, while the Safari remains an exclusive software on both the iPhone and iPhone 3G. Nokia takes third place with 17.9% of the market, while the rest…well, the lack of a podium finish doesn’t deserve space in the news, eh?