Wii Opera
Friday, December 22, 2006

Ahh, today saw the release of the Wii trial browser powered by Opera; just as I was lamenting the pains of having to use my sisters laptop to check my emails over this holiday season. Even though it is just a trial I am very impressed so far; full support for Gmail and Google Reader AJAX and out of the box Flash support that lets me watch YouTube on the television or load up my Last.fm personal radio station whilst I potter about. Improvements should include tabbed browsing and a box somewhere on the page that says what site or address you are visiting/on for security purposes, but I am sure these are in the works. On pages when the Wii decides it can't cope the page disappears and the main browser page appears in its place without warning - this is my only annoyance so far. I'll hold off on a proper review until the full product is released, however I can say this is a tidy little version to keep us going until then.

The ease and speed with which everything loads on the Wii is also a good point to note, especially after having fallen out with my PSP due to its excessive and ridiculous load times or even my PS2 and Xbox loading times. It makes it very easy just to turn on, play some Wii tennis and then leave, a quick 5 minute game is exactly that, not a quick 5 minute game plus 10 minutes of loading and options screens.

A friend has bought me 1000 wii points to buy some games on the Virtual Console, I think I'll be getting bomberman 93 at some point when I get a few more controllers but until then i'll wait to see what else comes out. I can't wait for Mario Kart 64.

Labels: Wii

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