Following seven months of “technical preview,” Opera Software announced today that its mobile Web browser officially supports Windows Mobile smartphones. This new version supports “all major web standards,” including CSS2, DOM 2, and JavaScript, and also includes Opera’s latest Small-Screen Rendering engine.
This is what Opera makes it’s money with.
Since I kinda felt sorry for Opera after Firefox got released: go Opera!
If only the webpage in the link supported Opera!
Something in the layout gives me nothing but a box that says ‘Curtain Rises on Opera for Windows Mobile’ and is full of ads.
Whoops.
I wish they post a version for the PDA PocketPC too.
Isn’t there a Firefox version for smartphones in the works?
Yeah, it’s called Minimo. It’s coming along very slowly without near the feature-set of Opera.
IIRC Minimo is for PocketPC and requires atleast 64MB or RAM to run.
my Win Smartphone 2003SE only has 28MB RAM, by the time the phone is up and running only about 9-10MB’s are free, so Minimo is pretty much useless for most Windows based smartphones.
Thanks for the correction. I thought Minimo was just intended to be for all low-memory portable gadgets, including pocketpc and smartphones. You know, the whole portability thing.
Pretty sad that it requires 64MB of memory to run. Sort of defeats the purpose
Anyway, I’m glad to hear Opera expanding even more.
New in the help menu of Opera 8 there is a tool for reporting site problems. It would help them a lot of it was used.
that said Smart Phone 2003SE is from the same code base as PocketPC, so it would probably be runnable if your device had enough RAM.