Opera browser for series 60 mobiles

OSLO: At the Symbian Exposium in London, UK, Opera Software ASA today announced that users of the Series 60 based smartphones, such as Nokia 3650, now can download the Opera for Symbian OS mobile browser with Small-Screen Rendering (SSR) to their phones.

"Series 60 Platform and Symbian OS utilize open standards and offer a base for companies, such as Opera, to develop and offer advanced applications and services," says Director Marketing Mika Saravirta, Nokia Mobile Software. "Consequently, users of Series 60 based smartphones will be able to choose services that will meet their individual needs and enhance the user experience of mobile devices."

Opera's Small-Screen Rendering technology has already created quite a stir among mobile phone manufacturers, as more and more users are expressing an interest in accessing the full Internet on their mobile phones. The key to the success is that unlike mobile Web solutions in the past that required Web developers to code pages intended for the mobile Web in a different language, such as WAP, Opera's SSR technology simply takes a HTML Web page and reformats it to fit on a smaller screen, eliminating the need for horizontal scrolling.

"Our relationship with Opera goes back to 1999, and we are very pleased to see that Opera is presenting their HTML browser on the Series 60 Platform," says EVP David Wood, Partnering, Symbian. "Opera provides Symbian OS licensees and operators with an exceptionally full-featured Web browser and the highest standards-support. I have been running Opera on my own personal mobile phone for several months: it is a truly useful and truly inspiring application".