Opera Mini is quite different in that it doesn't actually render web pages on your phone. It renders them on a server, and then essentially downloads images to your phone of the webpage, which you can then interact with.

When you see it "downloading video" at 2 MB/s, it's acutally downloading the video to the server at that rate, then transcoding it to stream to your browser at a much slower rate.

What Webkit on the phone does is completely different, in that it actually renders the page on the phone.

Comparing the two is apples/oranges. I, personally, prefer having the whole website actually available on the phone, but to each their own.

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