Windows Mobile Available in Opera, Minimo and Deepfish

• Posted: Wednesday, April 04, 2007
• |
• Author: pradhana
• |
• Filed under: Opera, Windows Mobile

Even though there is no an official announcement from Opera, but a new beta version of Opera Mobile 8.65 for Windows Mobile is available directly from Opera's download site. It includes a version for Windows Mobile 5 Smartphone devices.

The Minimo team said in its new release that Minimo 0.2 includes a bunch of new features and bug fixes, and adds support for Windows Mobile 5. Minimo has an impressive set of features - JavaScript/AJAX support, RSS feed reader, tabbed browsing and a widget engine, to name a few - but it seems to be having a very hard time gaining traction. In fact, despite the new release, Minimo's future is far from certain.

In December, lead developer Doug Turner announced he would be spending less time on Minimo in the future. On his blog he wrote, "there are lots of browser in the space, the market is tightly control by cellular operators, and the end users aren't using the browser. This will change, but not for a few years."

Microsoft Labs also made waves last week with a very limited beta release of a new browser named Deepfish. Deepfish is a Windows Mobile-only browser that works like a cross between the iPhone's browser and the S60 browser. It uses a proxy to generate a zoom-able web page interface that mimics the appearance of browsing on a desktop. The Deepfish Demo looks great, but the browser is barely usable in its current state: no support for cookies, JavaScript or HTTP POST.

• Permalink
• RSS 2.0
• 
• 
• 
• 
•