Thursday, 1. June 2006, 11:53:11
mobile browser, opera mobile, series 60, symbian
Opera Software today announced that the Opera browser is included on the new Nokia N72 mobile phone. The Nokia N72 is a stylish and powerful multimedia phone with a 2 megapixel camera, integrated digital music player, FM radio and the Opera Mobile browser.
Opera and Nokia signed a renewed software licensing agreement which was announced on the Oslo Stock Exchange on March 31, 2006.
More information on the Nokia N72:
http://www.nokia.com/A4136001?newsid=1053633
Wednesday, 10. May 2006, 13:53:23
nintendo, gaming, devices, wii
Today is a great day here at Opera. Nintendo announced their new game console, the
Nintendo Wii, at the E3 conference in Los Angeles. This is the device that was formerly known under the code name Nintendo Revolution. And it is the second Nintendo device after Nintendo DS to feature the Opera browser. Read the Opera press release
here.
It [Nintendo Wii] can power up virtual console games and applications like our Opera web browser saved to Flash ROM almost as fast as a telephone or television in just a few seconds.
says Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata in his
speech.
More and more devices are featuring the Opera browser. From PCs to mobile phones, in-flight entertainment systems, media players and game consols. The browser is becoming a central application on these devices, bringing truth to our mission of offering the best Internet experience on any device.
Photo courtesy of Nintendo.
Wednesday, 10. May 2006, 12:30:50
mobile browser, smartphone, mobile, opera mobile
...
[snip] The global aspect of MobileMonday Global Peer Award was emphasized when Norwegian-made Opera-browser, nominated by MobileMonday Japan, won the business-to-business category on Monday in Helsinki event.
The actual winning application was Opera 8 Mobile Browser for BREW.
15-country jury selected the winners from 21 finalists. The representatives of 15 MobileMonday chapters gave voted the winners by giving 3 points to the best and one point to the second best application.
The Japanese nominee, Opera, gathered 30 points. The second best point total went to eXact Mobile by Giunti Labs with 17 points.
Opera was described as an application that offers mobile users speed and usability by design always in line with the latest development in the Opera desktop browser. Opera allows mobile user to navigate the full Internet.[/snip]
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Tuesday, 9. May 2006, 15:06:24
mobile browser, mobile web access, opera mobile, opera mini
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T-Mobile has hired Robbie Williams to front their
Web'n'Walk offering. Because Opera Mobile is powering several of the Web'n'Walk phones, a leading Norwegian news site, NA24, wrote an
article with the headline above. A good angle, if I ever saw one:up: !
Now that T-Mobile has also signed up to pre-install Opera Mini on several of their feature phones, they are expanding their Web'n'Walk offering across their entire customer base beyond the smartphone segment. This is, of course, great for Opera.
But what I really like here is that T-Mobile is spending a gazzilion Euros on promoting mobile Web surfing. This speaks volumes about how important the mobile Web, and thus the mobile Web browser, is to one of the world's leading operators.
So let this be a clear hint to all the operators in the world: People do not like to be confined to walled gardens or offered limited and poor content. Open the gates and let people surf. There is ONE Internet, and it should be accessible regardless of device.
There, I said it.
Now, let Robbie and Opera entertain you!
Tuesday, 9. May 2006, 14:42:22
opera mini
Opera Software
Attn: Eskil Sivertsen
PB 2648 St. Hanshaugen
0131 Oslo, Norway
Dear Eskil:
We are pleased to announce that Opera Mini is the recipient of the LAPTOP Editors' Choice Award. Opera Mini is featured in the Downloads section of the May issue of LAPTOP, which is on sale 4/18/06. Congratulations on your success! We at LAPTOP Magazine are happy to recognize your quality product.
Read the review
here.
Wednesday, 3. May 2006, 06:59:42
opera mini, mobile browser, j2me
It is out! As of this morning we officially (and proudly) released Opera Mini 2.0. The press release is going out as I am writing this, and the updates to opera.com are waiting to be synched - so by reading this you are one of the very first people to hear the news and get your hands on the new Opera Mini.
To download Opera Mini 2.0 to your phone, go to
http://mini.opera.com with your phone's WAP browser. For other ways of getting Mini, go to the official Opera Mini
site.
It has a lot of new functionality, the coolest of which I think is the ability to download files from the Web. It also has new design options and a lot of improvements under the hood.
What's new, you ask? Here's what:
- Content download: Download images, MP3s, etc. directly to the phone.
- New skins: Make Opera Mini your own by selecting from several new and bold skins to suit your mood.
- Multisearch: Opera Mini offers advanced searching functionality by allowing users to select extra search engines for the home page.
- Speed dial: Bookmarks displayed on the home page are assigned a shortcut key combination for faster access to favorite sites.
- Visual navigation: Quick and smooth horizontal panning when browsing backwards or forwards.
Gotta go and play with my new Mini now!
Friday, 7. April 2006, 13:44:20
april fool's, opera mini, april 1, Fun
It was the day before April 1. A Friday, with all the pre-weekend buzz that comes with it. And spring was in the air, which only fueled my excitement. I had talked my colleagues and best friend into something very weird, and my office looked like a low-budget adult movie set.
It was time for our April 1 joke.
Last year's joke about
Opera Soundwave was a great success. This year we decided to have fun with existing stock photography and online photo catalogues that companies hire photos from when they create online or print material, such as brochures. In the technology sector, most brochures and company presentations show all these pictures of beautiful people holding phones or working on their laptops in a glossy, perfect world where white teeth and good looks are mandatory traits. So we decided to use Opera employees (and my best friend Torstein) to show the world how REAL people ACTUALLY use technology in their everyday lives.
Hence the rather dodgy set-up in my office.
Most people have a well-developed sense of what is acceptable and appropriate in official contexts. I have demonstrated, on numerous occasions, a blatant lack of this trait (I usually get away with it, though, like when publically putting our CEO on the spot, forcing him to try to
swim from Norway to the USA). Two of my ads were thus censored by Opera's top management. They thought the ads were very funny, but too risqué to use in an official context - April Fool's joke or not.
But they're too good not to be shared, so through my unofficial Opera Mobile blog, I hereby give you the two ads that were deemed "too much".
Rather than putting them here in your face, here are the links:
-
Opera Mini censored ad #1-
Opera Mini censored ad #2Have a great weekend!
Friday, 7. April 2006, 13:01:18
opera mini
Opera Mini has enjoyed great success so far, and I'm very happy to tell you that Opera Mini 2.0 is right around the corner. It will have many improvements and some really nice new functionality. The coolest new feature, in my opinion, is download functionality, which means that you can download files to your phone using Opera Mini!
Thursday, 6. April 2006, 10:46:43
opera mini
Today we
announced that Opera Mini has attracted 2 million users. That's great, and it is only the beginning. However, what is really intriguing about the statistics is how much they actually use the browser. If all 2 million surfed every day, they would browse two pages per person per day. But as with any service, far from everybody is using it every day. The most avid users browse up to 30 pages per day, a large chunk average around 10 and, of course, some only browse now and then or not at all.
We've been saying how operators can boost their Average Revenue Per User (ARPU) by enabling their entire customer base to browse the Web, and these numbers really back that up. Every day, between 38 and 76 Gigabytes of traffic run through our servers.
It's good for all: End-users get to surf the real Web on their phones, faster and cheaper because of Mini's compression; Operators get all this data traffic from users that would normally not be surfing if it hadn't been for Mini; Content providers reach the mass market with their existing sites and services.
T-Mobile has understood this, and signed with us to pre-install Opera Mini on their high-volume feature phones in their
Web'n'Walk offering.
Debitel understood this and signed to use Opera's entire range of mobile solutions on selected handsets. And a wide range of content sites and Web services have understood this and are signing up as Opera Mini distributors.
It's only been two months since the global launch of Opera Mini, and we've had some really good wins already. Stay tuned!
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