Opera Software Brings Its Browser to Mobile Phones

13Echo writes "Now this is cool! Opera Software has presented a technology today that solves the problems of web pages on small screens. They have created a small-screen HTML rendering technique that slightly reformats web pages to fit within the bounds of small displays. Some screenshots can be found here along with extra details as to how they do it. A full press release can be found here. As a result, horizontal scrollbars are not needed, and it even features zooming abilities for magnifying web pages."

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Mobile phones -- Worth the hazards?

[PhysicsScholar]

My collegues and I refuse to carry mobile phones despite the number of emergency-type situations we often find ourselves in. Based on a few simple Blender-3D models I threw together during my a couple of lunch breaks, the analysis of how electromagnetic radiation absorbed by the body affects the shape and orientation of our cells is nothing short of frightening.

So, this news that Opera can allow for Web browsing via mobile phones in a more functional and advanced manner isn't very important to folks like me who wish to avoid getting cancer (radiation from 900 to 2450 MHz -- the range we are exposed to by mobile phones, microwave ovens, and police and air-traffic radar -- has been proven to be deadly in lab studies with smaller mammals as the patients).

So, just some advice from one physicist to his fellow geeks -- think before you buy that snazzy new phone (with Opera software, perhaps) because you'd almost be better off taking up a less-dangerous habit such as smoking fags (known as "cigarettes" in the states, I believe).