Opera’s Company executive revealed that more than 1 million copies of Opera Software's new iPhone browser were downloaded on the first day of Opera Mini's availability.

Apple for the iPhone's and iPod Touch's App Store approved the browser on Monday, three weeks after it was submitted. Dag Olav Norem, Opera's Vice President of mobile products said, “We were at the top of the charts of every 22 App Stores”.

Opera declared that Mini had been downloaded to Apple's mobile devices 1,023,380 times, as of yesterday. Mini is a faster alternative to Safari on the iPhone and iPod Touch, according to Opera.

It claimed that it’s up to six times faster in rendering a page due to intense compression up to 90%.

Opera is giving away Mini on the iPhone. As a matter of fact, it is relying on income from search deals to provide it revenue. Different agreements have been struck by Opera with several large mobile carriers in order to craft custom editions of the browser for other smartphones.

Norem said, “Opera Mini has the same interface on all devices. It looks exactly the same on other phones as on the iPhone. That work has been a huge investment”.