Opera DS has been out long enough that the initial enthusiasm has worn off and we're starting to get some rather blunt appraisals of what it's like to actually use:

The verdict? Surfing on DS is just as lousy as it is on PSP.

Ouch! But at least it can do porn. Of course, not well...

it's hard to imagine anyone over the age of twelve being titillated by naked girls who appear to have been chopped in half by a magician's trick gone horribly wrong. But then, it's also difficult to imagine anyone with access to a real computer wanting to surf the web through a slow, clumsy handheld system that takes painful liberties with page rendering and lacks support for half of the Internet's current standards. But hey, at least there are no pop-ups.

The smut test really sums up the DS Opera experience in a nutshell: why even bother? Sony's the only one who should really care, frankly. Furtively browsing porn on a tiny screen in public has been one of PSP's few unique offerings for this console cold war, and Nintendo has just closed the Booby Gap.

If a web browser can't even do porn correctly, then I'm afraid it merely ranks a 7 on my IGN style ratings scale of 8-10. Florian Eckhardt

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