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Wednesday, September 21, 2005

Opera for Smartphone Runs on WM5 Pocket PCs?

Posted by Janak Parekh in "THOUGHT" @ 07:00 AM

http://kny.iki.fi/operawm5/

"Tired of waiting for the Pocket PC version of Opera, I downloaded the trial version of Opera 8.00u1 for Windows Mobile Smartphone 2003 and just tried to install it on my brand new i-mate JASJAR. Lo and behold, it worked! I kid you not, I even managed to get VGA support by tweaking the exe..."



I've long heard about the improved compatibility between Smartphone and Pocket PC with the advent of WM5, but I didn't know it worked this well. Let's hope Opera releases a version compatible with all Pocket PCs soon. (In the meantime, it's worth pointing out that Opera has decided to make their desktop version permanently free.)

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