Opera has really big plans for mini browser
Wednesday, 28. September 2005, 02:44:25
Opera plans to put mini browser on 700 million phones!
Carrier execs offer mobile content advice
By Mike Dano, RCR Wireless News mdano@crain.com
Sep 27, 2005
SAN FRANCISCO-Executives from Cingular Wireless L.L.C., VeriSign Inc. subsidiary Jamster!, WiderThan, Orange SA and others took turns discussing the future of wireless content and the mobile Web during the Mobile Software Value Chain forum here, while Opera Software used the event to announce plans to introduce the full Internet to around 700 million Java phone users.
Opera said it plans to distribute its new Java-based Opera Mini Web browser worldwide, although the company did not provide specifics. Opera first announced its Mini browser in August.
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Timo Bruns, vice president of Opera's mobile software efforts, said Opera soon would make its Mini product available to subscribers across the globe. The company hopes its Mini offering will replace WAP browsers with a Java application that allows users to surf standard HTML Web sites rather than just WAP sites.
"We need one Web on all devices," Bruns said. "It's a bit of a futile experience to try to deliver two versions of the same content."
Most mobile phones ship with a WAP Web browser, which only can render Internet sites written in WML or XHTML script. Opera's new Mini browser can render standard HTML Internet sites-which the company said gives phone users access to content usually reserved for desktop computers. The browser essentially squeezes regular Internet sites into a phone screen using server-client technology.
A small phone screen "should not stop us from giving the full Internet experience on a mobile device," Bruns said.
Carrier execs offer mobile content advice
By Mike Dano, RCR Wireless News mdano@crain.com
Sep 27, 2005
SAN FRANCISCO-Executives from Cingular Wireless L.L.C., VeriSign Inc. subsidiary Jamster!, WiderThan, Orange SA and others took turns discussing the future of wireless content and the mobile Web during the Mobile Software Value Chain forum here, while Opera Software used the event to announce plans to introduce the full Internet to around 700 million Java phone users.
Opera said it plans to distribute its new Java-based Opera Mini Web browser worldwide, although the company did not provide specifics. Opera first announced its Mini browser in August.
continued below
Timo Bruns, vice president of Opera's mobile software efforts, said Opera soon would make its Mini product available to subscribers across the globe. The company hopes its Mini offering will replace WAP browsers with a Java application that allows users to surf standard HTML Web sites rather than just WAP sites.
"We need one Web on all devices," Bruns said. "It's a bit of a futile experience to try to deliver two versions of the same content."
Most mobile phones ship with a WAP Web browser, which only can render Internet sites written in WML or XHTML script. Opera's new Mini browser can render standard HTML Internet sites-which the company said gives phone users access to content usually reserved for desktop computers. The browser essentially squeezes regular Internet sites into a phone screen using server-client technology.
A small phone screen "should not stop us from giving the full Internet experience on a mobile device," Bruns said.
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