Opera DS, by all accounts, looks remarkably usable. But there's got to be trade offs in any portable browsing solution like this: PocketPCs haven't mastered portable web browsing yet, so we can hardly expect full usability from Opera DS. So what, exactly, can't we expect?

The browser won't be capable of displaying Flash and PDF, nor will it support video and sound. While you can save bookmarks to your favorite pages, you cannot save images or other elements of pages.

No one's going to miss PDFs, but not being able to watch YouTube vids is a bit of a blow. And no sound? How will you enjoy those delightfully braying YTMND sites now?

Actually, outside of YouTube, no flash, no sound and no PDFs sound pretty much like the abstinences of my dream browser: the one that stops the internet from causing my fillings from spontaneously and bloodily ejecting. Florian Eckhardt

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