What Does it Mean that Opera's Phone Browser Overtook the iPhone? Mobile or Mini Versions?

Interesting item in Reuters that I’m not quite sure how to interpret…

Opera passes iPhone to lead mobile-browser market

The article says that 24.6% of web pages downloaded by mobile devices in May were downloaded using an Opera browser while 22.3% of web pages viewed using the iPhone’s Safari mobile web browser.

Here’s what I’m wondering: Opera has two different browsers for phones: Opera Mobile costs $24 and is available for Windows Mobile and S60 based smartphones. It is sometimes bundled with smartphones too.

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