Opera has published its monthly State of the Mobile Web report, which depicts that there has been an increase in the number of people using Opera Mini.

The mobile browser uses individually designed technology, so as to speed up browsing by making use of data compression routines.

And it has merely just been released for the iPhone in the previous month, in a shocking move from Apple, who many considered wouldn’t support a rival browser on its smartphone.

However, approval that it gave, and according to Opera’s statistics, a gigantic 2.6 million iPhone users have downloaded Opera Mini in the previous two weeks of April.

This clearly means that Opera Mini now has a sum of 58.9 million users, a 6.6% boost on the previous month of March and a 152% boost on April 2009.

The Apple iPhone has speedily turned out to be the number three mechanism used by Opera Mini devotees throughout the world.

And the iPhone has shot directly to the number one place in the US for being the most popular machine making use of Opera Mini, winning over the preceding possessor of that title, the BlackBerry range.

The desktop Opera browser is also doing fairly sound for itself of late, and for this, thanks to assistance from Microsoft’s new browser choice screen.