“Incorporating Opera into Foleo allows us to deliver a user-friendly web-browsing experience,” said Mark Bercow, senior vice president of business development for Palm, Inc. “With web browsing in mind as an important application, we also built in dedicated buttons beneath the keyboard for forward and back. Those buttons, plus the addition of the scroll wheel, make navigating the web using the Opera browser pleasant and easy to do.”

Opera’s architecture is characterized by fast-performing JavaScript and rendering engines that ensure tested performance via the cross-platform experience of its development core. As a leader in adopting Web 2.0 standards, Opera has full DOM support and can smoothly run advanced web and Ajax-based applications on Foleo mobile companions.

Opera for Palm Foleo includes the following features:

• Web-address input auto-completion — reduces input time with an index of address completions;
• Download manager — allows users to view download progress and access their downloads from one simple transfer manager window;
• Pop-up blocker — users can control whether to block all pop-ups or open only those that they request; and
• Bookmarks and history — allow quick access to favorites and recently viewed sites.

Opera’s flexible SDK allowed Palm to rapidly tailor the user interface to match the look and feel of the Foleo. To request an evaluation kit, please contact Opera at www.opera.com/devices.

Opera Mobile also is available for download to Windows Mobile based Palm Treo???? smartphones at www.opera.com/products/mobile/products/.

For more information on the Foleo mobile companion, please visit www.palm.com/seefoleo. To sign up for notification about Foleo availability, please visit www.palm.com/foleonotify.