Opera About to Sing With U.S. Carriers
The CTIA Wireless show is set to kick off in just over 10 days and you know what that means: All of the “pre-announcements” are whispering down the lane. Or singing, as it were. Forbes has the inside track on an expected announcement from Opera, the web browsing company.
No, it’s not the Turbo feature in Opera 10. This news sounds like a rising crescendo of U.S. cellular partner deals, meaning Opera might find it’s way on more feature-phones and smartphones over the coming months. Carriers can develop and offer their own browsers, but why not let the tune be sung by a company with more expertise in mobile browsing?
If Forbes is right, I’d expect Opera Mini to show a large jump in browser market share, which is good for Opera as a whole. Recently, Net Applications reported no growth for Opera, which the company refutes. It all depends on how you measure the data, to some degree. One thing you can’t deny: With 21 million active Opera Mini users, there’s plenty of room for potential growth on the billions of handsets out there. Carrier partnerships can help Opera get a start on that growth for the company’s second act.
The only thing that would shock me would be a Verizon partnership.
I use Opera Mini on my N95 and it gets the job done but the biggest problem I have with Opera is their glacially slow development cycles. Opera Mobile seems to have been in beta for an eternity and they still don’t seem to have to sorted the column formatting issue.
Sorry, I meant to say that Opera Mini gets the job done really well.
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