A look at Opera on the Nintendo DS

Last week our pals over at Joystiq posted a video of the new version of the Opera web browser designed for the Nintendo DS. I'm not a DS owner, but I've been wondering since the Opera-Nintendo deal was announced how Opera would fit into the DS's unique dual-touch-screen paradigm. From the video, it looks pretty intuitive: You can scroll around either with a single scroll bar (which spreads the page over both screens) or by dragging around a box on the lower screen, which shows a magnified version of the box's contents on the upper screen. Text input is done with an on-screen keyboard or handwriting recognition. The video also shows off bookmarks and basic browsing. Take a look at the comments on Joystiq for some more insights, including a rough translation of the video's Japanese audio.

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