Opera Mobile

So it is already 2006. I know it will take me two months before I manage to adjust to writing 2005 2006 on letters and forms. Ah well, I had a nice and relaxing time over the holidays, only interrupted by phone calls from journalists around the world curious to hear about Google acquiring Opera. Or was it Microsoft?

Our Times Square competition was received very well by everyone, and I am glad we finally got the two love birds on a plane today. You can follow the development in Dan's blog.

Lots of exciting stuff happening in 2006, folks! We have the worldwide launch of Opera Mini coming up really soon, and I am busy preparing for it. I am very excited about this as Mini has such a great potential. Really, think about it. We're bringing the full Web to some 700 million phones around the world! Almost everybody can start surfing on the phone they have today! Isn't that a mobile Web revolution?

Then there's the much awaited release of Opera for Pocket PC, which is so close now that I can smell it in the hallways here at the Opera HQs. That is a smooth-running, sexy piece of software if I ever saw one.

I would love to say more, but need to keep some secrets, too

We've really turned it up quite a few notches in home media, or what is now officially our Opera for Devices business unit. The consumer electronics market will be of increased importance to Opera in 2006, and we have already made a few announcements.

Let's make 2006 as good for each other as I think it will be for Opera!