Samsung Electronics and Opera have signed an agreement to bundle Opera Mobile with some of its cell phones.
The Opera Mobile browser reformats Web pages as smaller replicas that require only vertical scrolling–as opposed to wider views that need scrolling both vertically and horizontally–in order to view an entire page.
The news follows Opera’s security update for Opera 9.1 and Nintendo’s announcement that Opera will be the choice browser for Nintendo’s Wii game console. Opera for Wii is set to release Friday.
Although Opera accounts for a very small slice of browser usage on PCs, it has become a dominant player in the mobile market. The Opera Mobile and Opera Mini browsers, for example, appear on a wide variety of phones including Blackberry PDAs, Nokia phones, and the Nintendo Wii and DS video game consoles.
[...] The WiBro penetration of China is projected to give much-awaited momentum to Korea’s homegrown Internet-on-the-go services, which are struggling to take root there. Meanwhile, Samsung is incorporating the Opera browser on some of its phones. Samsung has used Adaptix technology for their base station architecture. [...]
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