Sony Ericsson's P800 smartphone is to be the first handset to run Opera's Symbian OS mobile browser. The browser will be available for free download for the P800,from Monday. Mobile Opera uses Small Screen Rendering technology, which reformats the page contents into a "one dimensional" form.It gives you the page contents in a long scrolling column, and on a decent-sized colour screen like those on the P800 or the Nokia 7650 it looks quite reasonable.

Eval units of the P800 are starting to trickle out, and it'll be on general release soon, but the current user base consists largely of techies, journalists and special friends of Sony-Ericsson.

Techzonez