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Opera on the Nintendo DS

Opera is going to be available for the Nintendo DS! This is probably the coolest deal we've made ever. Included on an optional memory card, you just plug it in and voila! the entire Web on your DS. You already take your DS with you everywhere, right? Now you can browse the Web from anywhere you can play Mario Kart online. How cool is that?!

Read more in our press release and have a look at some pictures from the Nintendo press conference (with Japanese text), including shots of Opera on the DS.

Update 1 (10:30AM): NintendoDS Advanced has some nice details about how browsing will work:

"It is also now known that the forthcoming Nintendo DS web browser will fully utilize the properties of the portable device. Web pages on the DS will span both screens of the handheld, with the touch screen functioning for forms of input. The browser will also fully recognize stylus movements associated with the touch screen in order to adjust the viewing angle of the bottom screen."

I'll keep posting more interesting links as I get them. Here's an appetizer: