Yeah, you heard that right. An Opera developer has stated that they are working on an iPhone version of their browser to be released alongside the iPhone SDK - whenever it comes out. Why? It is hard to speculate - the Safari browser really makes the iPhone/iPod amazing. Opera is persistant though. They want their browser to run on every single device that exists in the universe - from toasters to spaceships, Opera wants to work on everything. Oh and there is this thing called FLASH.
Realistically, though, they aren't going to have much of a chance against Safari on the platform. Opera is a solid browser and brings some awesome features to the fold (built in torrent downloading for instance) but the mobile Safari, with