the Opera Internet Browser is coming to the Nintendo DS in June 2006 for Japan.

We don't quite get this. Even using a web browser on most Pocket PCs is an excruciating ordeal. Visiting simple sites on a baseball card sized screen is like trying to remove your wisdom teeth by head-butting a doorknob: definitely painful and not the most efficient way to do things. Shrink that screen down to the size of a postage stamp and it looks like you're going to pay $40 bucks merely for what you could alreadyon your DS for free: not read the Internet web sites you want to read.

Still, Opera is a very cool web browser and we're intrigued to see what solutions they can come up with to make web browsing on the DS viable. Let's keep our fingers crossed.

Opera Due in December [4 Color Rebellion]

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