Japan gets DS Opera on 24th July

Thursday 22 Jun 2006 : 19:22 PM



Japanese DS owners will be able to wirelessly browse the web using their DS from 24th of July when The official DS version of Opera is released.

Opera have created the browser especially for the DS's two screens and stylus. It has an on screen touch keyboard and both screens will be used for browsing, with the web page appearing in one and a thumbnail of the whole page in the other.

The unit will initially be sold on the web for 3,800 yen (about £18). There's no news of when it'll be released in the UK or US but we expect it to be before the end of this year.

As with all DS cards there is no region encoding meaning that there is no reason why it wouldn't work in the UK , apart from the fact you'd probably need to learn Japanese.

Tags: Nintendo , Opera , Wireless Internet

Formats: DS