In light of today's news that the Wii Browser by Opera has been pushed back to next month, Nintendo has released a statement explaining the upgrades that will be coming with the Wii tool.

improved zooming and scrolling an improved zoomed font shortened startup times quicker access to "favorites" an ability to hide the toolbar buttons that will instantly type common preset letters, such as "www" or ".com"

More details about these and other functions will be announced in the near future. To ensure that the browser incorporates all of these enhancements, the final version will be available for download in April, a few weeks later than previously announced. The browser will remain free for Wii owners to download through the end of June. After June, users who haven't already downloaded the Opera browser can go to the Wii Shop Channel to download it for 500 Wii Points.

Good news I suppose, but I'm still not going to be using my Wii for web browsing. Brian Crecente

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