DS Browser Goes Online
Today, the DS, like many other handheld devices of this modern age, has gone online and can now traverse the vast spaces of the internet! Presenting Opera, now available for the DS Lite and the original DS (yes, it would seem there is a version for both and I have to wonder why?). Here, for your enjoyment, is a list of features:
- DS Web Browser offers added functionality to your Nintendo DS
- Blog, check sports scores, and get the latest news in the palm of your hand
- Dual screen offers a much larger portable browsing experience than a cell phone or a personal digital assistant
- Customize your experience, disabling images to speed load times and altering the presentation to preserve the original page's layout or to maximize the screen space and readability on your DS
- Navigation's a breeze with the touch screen!
While a fantastic feature for those who really want something like this and their only portable device (other than a cell phone) is a Nintendo DS, I'm going to pass. I really am not that desperate to run around the internet on such a small screen during my busy day schedule. If ever I get a hankering for portable internet goodness whilst at a coffee shop, I just bring my laptop with me. ...or perhaps it would be good to have in a crunch to blog from, hmmm. Having said that, how many of you will pick this up? Anyone interested?
Super Timsy
Posted to Hot Stuff, Miscellany on 12 June 2007
· Comments (7)
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I ordered the version for the orginal DS (phat). You can't buy that version in stores as the memory pack that fits into the GBA slot is too small that comes with the lite version. Since Nintendo thinks not enough people still use the Phat, they make you order it online. But none the less I'm excited to get it, being laptop/cellphone deprived.
I have it and I am disappointed that you can't save a cookie and you have to keep entering passwords. Lame.. I love it but that is quite lame.
No support for Flash, thus no You/XTube. Sadness abounds.
I have the Japanese version; I'd pick up the American version if there were some additional functionality.
How do you actually pick this up? Do you go to a download station or do you buy it as if it were a game?
Adam said above that: You can't buy that version in stores as the memory pack that fits into the GBA slot is too small that comes with the lite version.
So I was just wondering. And kudos for Bryan! =]
I saw it at Best Buy the other day, but I didn't have enough cash on me at the time...
I'm sad that there's no flash support. ... think they'll release browser updates? :P
Even if they did support Flash 7 or 9, the DS' two processors combined are like a Pentium 133. Flash video wouldn't work, period.
Does flash video work on the PSP browser? That thing can do like 300MHz so it's kind of on the borderline for flash video support.