Many of remember the Timex/Sinclair, a computer you could get for about a hundred bucks. Okay, so computers are getting smaller and smaller and more powerfuller, too, and so is their software.
Including browsers:
Oslo, Norway - January 24, 2006 - Opera Software today announced the worldwide release of Opera Mini, the full Web browser that runs on almost every mobile phone, including low- and mid-end handsets. Today's global launch follows the trials of Opera Mini in the Nordics and in Germany during the fall of 2005, which resulted in a user base of over one million people. Opera Mini is available free of charge via WAP download, or for a small fee via SMS.Go to http://mini.opera.com for more information and download instructions.
"With Opera Mini most people can start surfing the Web with the mobile phone they have today," says Jon S. von Tetzchner, CEO, Opera Software. "We are proud to be the first to offer full, mobile Web browsing to the majority of the world's mobile phone users."
(Hat tip: MacMegasite)
Posted by Craig Ceely at January 29, 2006 04:57 PM