Nintendo DS Will Feature The Opera Browser

Nintendo DS users will now be able to surf the full Internet from their systems using the famous Opera browser. It is announced, that the Opera browser for Nintendo DS will be sold as a DS card. Insert the card into the Wi-Fi enabled Nintendo DS, connect to a network, and begin browsing on two screens.





Earlier this year, Nintendo reported that 13 million Nintendo DS systems were sold to consumers around the world within just 13 months of its debut in November 2004.
Nintendo DS combines unique dual screens, touch screen, voice recognition and wireless and Wi-Fi communications capabilities. According to an independent market research company in Japan, Nintendo DS has become the fastest selling video games machine to top the 6 million sales mark in Japan in just over 14 months since its Japanese debut, breaking the old record held by Nintendo's Game Boy Advance.

With an on screen keypad and stylus, users can easily navigate the Web from their Nintendo DS with PDA-like functionality. Based on the same core as the Opera desktop browser, Opera delivers superior speed and rendering of Web pages on the Nintendo DS.

Source: press release

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