As a long-suffering Fifa 14 Ultimate Team Coins  Symbian user, Opera Mini has been the saviour of my smartphone experience for some time. Its lightweight memory footprint and near-magical compression technology has managed to wrangle the web into something practical and usable where Nokia's native browser had fallen flat.

So naturally, when the Oslo-based company invited Wired to try a preview build of Opera Mini on the iPhone at Mobile World Congress, we were very keen to see how it would fare. Our first impression? It's fast. While I've always found the Symbian platform rendered Opera Mini's interface somewhat slugglishly, putting a damper on the browser's lighting-fast network performance, on the iPhone Opera has finally found a platform to do justice to its nimble web-slinging.