Opera to Port Their Mobile Web Browser to BREW Handsets

India's Tata Teleservices has secured an agreement with the Norway based, Opera Software to port their Java based mobile web browser onto Brew-enabled handsets which will be supplied by Huawei. The new browser will also be multi-lingual to support the various local languages in India.

"We are bringing one the world's best Web browsing experiences to India with a unique local flavor. We believe that the Indian market will widely accept the product as it provides consumers with the information they wish on their mobile phones, in the language they understand," said Pankaj Sethi, President-Value Added services Business Unit, Tata Teleservices. "This innovation is an important step in breaking the language barrier and extending the power of the Internet to everyone," he added.

The Huawei C2900i comes with a 'Go Active' connection that offers incoming facility for a year and free 1,000-minutes Tata-to-Tata calling at no extra cost.

Opera Mini uses a remote proxy server to pre-process Web pages before sending them to mobile phones. Web content is compressed to reduce the size of data transfers, enabling faster browsing experience. Bringing the desktop experience to mobile phones, Opera Mini's Small Screen Rendering (SSR) reformats the Web page to fit inside the screen width, automatically eliminating the need for horizontal scrolling. Alternatively, a new 'Desktop mode' gives users a wider view of the page. Opera Zoom functionality allows users to drive into the page offering dynamic navigation of the page content.

Tata Teleservices operates in more than 3400 towns across 20 circles i.e. Andhra Pradesh, Chennai, Gujarat, Karnataka, New Delhi, Maharashtra, Mumbai, Tamil Nadu, Orissa, Bihar, Rajasthan, Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh (E), Uttar Pradesh (W), Kolkata, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh and West Bengal. The company has a customer base of over 19 million.

Posted to the site on 28th November 2007