This evening in LA, SoonR and Opera ushers in a partnership to give a smoking user experience on a mobile phone. If you’re used to using a standard phone browser to access web sites, get ready for a thrill – SoonR with its new AJAX-enabled features sizzles on cell phones! Imagine accessing your photos and getting an animated slide show – with transitions – and with zooming – and with panning – all in a web browser on your cell phone?!? You get functionality of an resident application without the application.

Michelle and Ove from Opera joined us at the booth and helped us to show off how Opera’s Ajax support can make applications for cell phone look like nothing you’ve ever seen before.

There were a lot of excited people around our booth all night . You get pop up menus instead of just links. There’s instant global navigation with access keys. With our new AJAX-enabled features and Opera, you can review your documents in page PreView mode as a slide show, and you can even zoom in to look more closely at your pages. Awesome!

We got some great comments from the reporters from the Wall Street Journal, Associated Press, local radio stations and analysts who were at Mobile Focus. SoonR is the first mobile AJAX application that gives access to Mac or PC content in such a compelling way. As all this was going on, we had sushi galore and folks wearing these hysterical Sumo wrestler costumes going at it in the middle of the ballroom. It was a riot.

Oh – you’d like to see SoonR sizzling on Opera? Just make sure your cell phone is equipped with the latest version of Opera Mobile and log into SoonR. You can see if your phone is compatible at http://www.opera.com/. Look for phones that can run Opera 8.6+. Thanks to Opera, SoonR Sizzles!

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