DS Web Browsing Looks Refreshingly Good

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Thursday July 20, 2006 @06:31AM from the mario-on-mario dept.

ElFozzie writes "Browsing the web on a handheld console or mobile phone has never been the most pleasant experience. The new Opera browser for the DS looks like it might change all that. On the eve of the Japanese launch, a story at Pocketgamer outlines the features and links to a video of the new browser in action." From the article: "The video illustrates the browsing technique, which sees the lower touch screen used for scanning zoomed-out pages and interaction via the stylus, whilst the top screen displays the zoomed-in detail. It also shows both text entry and handwriting recognition systems for rapid entry of URLs, as well as a host of standard browser features including bookmarks."

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Re:Excuse my skepticism... by Valthan · 2006-07-20 07:06 · Score: 3, Insightful

A lot of Downtown centres are wireless now (think Toronto and SanFran to name 2), instead of walking around with a laptop in one hand, I can now walk around surfing on my DS

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Re:Sweet! by megli · 2006-07-20 07:59 · Score: 2, Insightful

Or if you have your own server you could write your own online SSH client using javascript and your server side scripting language of choice. (Insert some buzzwords here to make this idea sound more impressive.)

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WPA by CaseM · 2006-07-20 09:14 · Score: 2, Insightful

Pretty please?