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Opera at the CTIA Wireless show (photo)

Published April 16th, 2007 1:11 PM EDT By Daniel Goldman

A few weeks ago Opera attended the CTIA Wireless show in Orlando, Florida. I just got a picture of Opera’s booth at the show; so why not blog about it now. :)

Opera’s CEO, Jon von Tetzchner spoke at the “Wireless Web: Version 2.0″ panel. He was joined by executives from Nokia, Palm and Yahoo, where they addressed technical, business and user experience issues relating to mobile Web adoption.

At the booth (picture below), Opera showcased a number of demos, including: Opera 9 for Mobile, Opera Mini 3 with social networking capabilities, Mobile Widgets, and the Opera browser on various handheld devices.

CTIA Wireless was an important show for Opera to attend, since the US mobile market is slowly catching up to the European and Asian ones, and is a key market target for us.

Update: As Lawrence pointed out in the comments, a few more photos of Opera booth can be found on the official Opera Flickr profile.

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Opera’s booth at CTIA Wireless - Photo by Michelle (enlarge)

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  1. 1 Lawmune Apr 16th, 2007 at 1:55 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.20 on Windows Windows XP

    A few more photos of our booth can be found here: http://flickr.com/photos/chooseopera/sets/72157600073193352/

  2. 2 Muzammil Apr 16th, 2007 at 2:56 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.20 on Windows Windows XP

    Flickr is blocked in the United Arab Emirates by the U.A.E. government.

  3. 3 DMXell Apr 17th, 2007 at 6:42 am
    using Opera Opera 9.20 on Windows Windows XP

    Ugh. I live in Orlando, I would have gone had I know it was here x.x. Muzammil, use a proxy to get around it.

  4. 4 Investor Apr 17th, 2007 at 6:34 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.20 on Windows Windows XP

    Like the posters… *Opera Mini* and *come together* … Could be efficient ad banners on web sites, too ;)

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