Take that Nokia: Samsung will be shipping Opera on their mobile phones too

Not Opera Mini either, they’re shipping the full blown Opera Mobile. The only conclusion I can come to is that people high up are starting to realize how important mobile browsing will be in the coming months. Instead of building a solution in house they’re going to depend on Opera, which by the way makes a mobile browser BETTER than the one built in to S60 phones. You (Nokia (NYSE: NOK)) will be pulling a Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) on us if you don’t find some way of updating the browser  on everyones phone. I mean Opera Mobile and Opera Mini are applications, that can be upgraded no problem. If you stay static and don’t offer customers upgrades then you’re going to loose mobile web browsing market share.

Opera Mobile is Opera Software’s standards-compliant Web browser for advanced mobile phones. The browser uses Opera’s Small Screen Rendering technology to reformat Web pages for viewing on a small screen and allows users to navigate Web pages with intuitive vertical scrolling.

"Our strategies in working closely across the board with major handset manufacturers, operators and directly with end users have made Opera Mobile an attractive product," says Jon von Tetzchner, CEO, Opera Software. "We’re proud that Opera Mobile is today’s choice for Web browsing on the latest Samsung mobile handset because of its winning user experience and form factor adaptation."

Source: Slashphone

Let this be a wake up call, update. I can only imagine in 1 year or so they (Opera) will be adding more and more features to their browser that will make your old platform look ancient.