Fat lady sings: pre-installed Opera on some WinMo 6 devices

Opera85_winceLet’s call this Act 1 since it’s preliminary information from InfoWorld at the moment. Actually, do operas even have "acts"? I need to get out more. Turns out that the CEO of Opera announced that some Windows Mobile 6 handsets will have the Opera browser pre-installed. Which devices have the powerful, small-screen savvy browser? Opera says "Motorola Inc.’s Q as well as phones from High Tech Computer Corp., Asus and Toshiba Corp".

OK, that doesn’t tell us exactly which models (other than the Q) will have Opera included, but that’s for Act 2. My questions / thoughts:

  • Wouldn’t it be nice if IE could be uninstalled in a case like this? Why take memory for two similar apps?
  • Can Opera be set as the default browser? Currently, if you click a link in e-mail on a Windows Mobile device, you get the joy of IE, even if you have alternative browsers installed.
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