In conjunction with the 3GSM Conference in Cannes, France, Sony Ericsson P800 mobile phone owners soon will be able to freely download the “Opera for Symbian OS” mobile browser with “Small-Screen Rendering” (SSR) technology for use in their phones. Opera and Sony Ericsson claim this will make P800 owners the first mobile phone users to be able to access the full Internet from their phones.

According to Opera, the agreement with Sony Ericsson represents a commercial breakthrough for the Opera's SSR technology, which was introduced last October.

“When we planned the features of the P800 we set out to create a phone that is able to access all types of Internet content,” said Stefan Streit, Director of Product Marketing, Sony Ericsson. “We are happy to offer P800 consumers free access to the Opera browser as it provides extended support for non-standard 'Street HTML', JavaScript, and frames in the Sony Ericsson P800.”

Opera's SSR technology has addresses the small-screen problem that has plagued the mobile internet for years, by automatically reformatting web pages designed for desktop PCs so that they fit on the smaller screens of mobile devices, and eliminating the need for horizontal scrolling.

The Opera for the P800 browser will be available for download for free from Sony Ericsson's website, starting on the first day of the 3GSM World Congress, Monday, Feb. 17, 2003.

Opera says their SSR-enabled browser supports the latest standards including HTML 4.01, ECMA-252 2nd & 3rd ed., JavaScript 1.5, XHTML 1.0/1.1, XHTML Basic, XHTML MP, CSS 1 & 2, CSS MP, WML 1.3, WCSS, cHTML, HTTP 1.0 & 1.1, SSL 3 /TLS 1.0 and Unicode (UTF-16).

 
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