If you want to surf the web on your Nintendo DS in US English the European version of the Opera browser is the way to go (At least until the DS launches Opera in the US). In the mean time if your willing to shell out around $60 what you get is very nice.
In fact I see no reason why Nintendo is waiting to launch this title in the US. They could literaly place the Euro version on US shelves as is and it would be a great product. The only downside and its a very minute downside is that it’s probably a bit more difficult to set up. And by bit I mean you have to figure out how to surmount such challanges as figuring out if you really want US English, UK English or one of the other European language sets. Also you need to scroll through more options for time zone. So hope your up for it.
Plenty of people have reviewed the browser, for me to do so would be just a re-hash of what everyone else is already saying. It’s great but far from perfect. Let me be clear about what your not getting:
No Flash
No Java (Yes you will get a fairly complete implementation Java-script)
No Media (Well pictures, but no sounds, no video)
Speed wise the device can bog down on certain pages but overall when you consider the hardware its running on its pretty remarkable what you get away with.
If you got any questions fire away. Oh and by the way any of you enterprising web developers out there I can see a need for some DS specific Javascript games and a directory with links to sites that run well on the DS. Not that you can’t surf the majority of your sites, but say you want a quick movie time, a site that was designed to serve mobile content (which would probably display well on the DS) for example would be useful.
Bottom Line: If you really want to browse the web on your DS this is worth the money. Being able to watch You Tube videos would be the awesome, but it’s not possible, so people stop wishing for it, better to go back for wishing that some super hot chick is gonna want to do ya. Hell if your imagination is bad nothing stops you from finding some celebrity vagina and using the Nintendo DS’s zoom function, play gynecologist when your not playing Mario your DS won’t tell anyone.
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