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T-Mobile Europe cooperates with Opera to bring widgets to mobiles September 23, 2008 [General] | By Edward J. R. Oh no, not yet another widget platform! Widgets are now very popular both in Web 2.0 (social networking, blogging, microblogging) but also in mobile industry (widgets for various mobile phones). NetFront browser for Windows has widget engine and now also Opera is getting it. Interestingly icons of widgets of Opera have small numbers on them - looking exactly the same as icons in iPhone! When we interviewed CEO of Opera we mentioned, that the most important thing (for Windows Mobile users) is that Opera will provide Opera Mobile 9.5 with bundled Flash but he said that their browser supports Flash if it is already installed, but Flash will no be bundled. Since Microsoft is soon releasing desktop-class browser for Windows Mobile, Opera has found new venue for their innovation - widgets: "T-Mobile ushered in a new era as the first global telecommunications operator to provide its customers with a complete mobile Web experience. Together with Opera, T-Mobile launched the pan-European success story called web'n'walk, enabling people to use all their favorite Web sites on nearly any device," says Jon von Tetzchner, CEO of Opera Software. "Today, T-Mobile takes another industry-defining step forward. In web'n'walk 4.0, the mobile phone comes alive with widgets that deliver personalized services direct from the home screen, giving people more powerful tools to take full advantage of the mobile Web experience." "T-Mobile is striving towards offering its customers the best Internet experience at any time and in any place. To this end, we have introduced the iPhone into our markets in cooperation with Apple and are working on a new operating system, Android, in cooperation with Google, as a member of the Open Handset Alliance. The new web'n'walk is enabling us to push ahead with this strategy and introduce a new level of Internet quality to our other terminal devices and operating systems as well," explained Rainer Deutschmann, Senior Vice President Mobile Internet, T-Mobile International AG. "We invite the industry to support the development and spread of this open, standards-based platform for the benefit of users and application developers." To learn more, visit the original source of this story: T-Mobile introduces Opera widgets in next-generation mobile Web experience (note there: screenshots of these Opera widgets running in Windows Mobile phone!).  Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later) [ 1 Comment ]
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