Ahem, sorry to bump an old thread like this, but I've been having a lot of thought's about Opera, & this is the closest & newest thing to a proper "DS Opera" thread, so here I go.
So, it'll be fairly cheap, & will probably make it over here to UK eventually, maybe even this year, but there is a question that has been on my mind for a loong while, I've just never gotten around to asking it!
About viruses? Trojan Horses? Worms? Adware & Spyware?
Will anything like that have an effect on our precious DS'? I'm sure that someone would eventually attempt to make a special DS virus that eats away at the DS hardware, as Opera is merely a browser, it would have no files to infect, but couldn't it still affect your actual DS? They probably already have an answer to this, I mean the DC & PSP do it... but I'm just wondering.
Also, what about freedom? Well we already know that DS Opera doesn't support flash, so that makes a huge lists of Websites unavailabe to us, but will they AUTOMATICALLY have something that stops us from going on dodgy websites, or rude ones? We know what Nintendo is like with safety, they probably have some sort of parantal blocker thing, but wouldn't a kid either:
Tell his parants & they wouldn't bother maybe saying that they had no intrest with consoles (IF I told my mum about the function, she wouldn't bother to edit it, she never even does it for PC, so I doubt she would for DS)
Or not tell her on purpose (the most popular choice)
Or forget (if it was some innocent posh non girl liking 5 year old)
Oh noes!!