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Opera brings Internet to your smartphone
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By Sindre Lia, Tuesday 15 October 2002  
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Opera Software today presented a technology breakthrough that according to the company itself will bring the power of the full Internet into the pockets of Opera's users.
How would infoSync's current frontpage look like with Opera's new technology? Take a look here.
Opera Software, a well-known company in terms of browser technology, has been working on the screen size problem that has plagued and stopped the full-scale implementation of the full Internet onto small mobile devices. Opera's engineers have developed a solution which reformats existing HTML Web sites to fit on small screens, while maintaining Opera's small size and low resource consumption.
 | Ill: Opera Software
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"With Small-Screen Rendering bringing the full HTML-enabled Internet to mobiles, we can finally see the promises of high-speed mobile networks materializing as concrete benefits for everyone," says Jon S. von Tetzchner, CEO, Opera Software ASA. "Content providers will save cost by not having to provide several versions of their sites in different formats like those demanded by today's WAP-technology, operators will get a more attractive product, and all users will finally be able to access their favorite Web sites from their small mobile devices."
Already offering a standards-compliant browser that ensures access to most Web sites, Opera is an established actor in the market for small-screen devices like smartphones, the computer-enabled mobile phones now hitting the market, and Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs). In the smartphone segment, Opera is Symbian's default browser, the consortium consisting of the world's leading mobile phone manufacturers. On PDAs, Opera is the critically acclaimed default browser on Sharp's line of Zaurus PDAs.
With a browser offering full access to the whole Web via HTML on smartphones, the mobile internet will obviously consist of more than plain-text services in the near future. Another interesting part is that telecom operators are supposed to save costs with this solution. Opera's browser performs all the rendering on the client itself, eliminating the need for expensive and complicated server solutions performing the same tasks residing with the telecom operators.
Whether the saved costs will benefit the end-user is currently unknown, but there's no doubt that telecom operators will have to continue offering flat-rate subscriptions for packet data services such as GPRS and CDMA2000 1xRTT to ensure widespread usage of Opera's new technology.
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