Windows Mobile Louisville

Opera today made Google™ the default search engine in Opera’s mobile Web browsers. Now anyone using Opera Mobile or Opera Mini can access Google’s powerful mobile search directly from the browser start page, meaning they’ll be able to quickly and easily get the information they need, whenever and wherever they need it.

Google has been the default search option on Opera’s desktop browser for seven years. This new mobile collaboration covers all global territories except Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States, and includes all of Opera’s standard mobile Web browsers.

“Google and Opera have established a valuable relationship over the years and we look forward to continued collaboration on mobile products,” said Jon von Tetzchner, CEO, Opera. “With 2008 poised to be the year the mobile Web goes mainstream, Google and Opera are extending this collaboration to give our users immediate access to the quality and convenience of Google’s search results. We’re excited to extend this productive relationship and we hope that the nearly 100 million people using our mobile products will agree.”

Opera Mobile and Opera Mini will both have Google as the default search, effective March 1, 2008.

Google2GO! is a mobile application for Google services, similar to Yahoo!Go. The app is not related to Google in any way - it was developed by folks over at The Tech Turf.

It requires a touchscreen-capable Windows Mobile Professional 6 device (WM5 has been reported to work as well), and you must have .Net framework 2.0.  Of course, you must have a data connection as well.  It currently is designed to work in Landscape mode (screen Resolution of 320×240 recommended).

Features:
Access to all Google mobile services including:

• Google Web/Image Search
• Google Local Search
• Gmail
• Google Calendar
• Google Reader
• Google Docs
• Picasa
• Google News
• Google Notes

Other features:

• Amazon
• eBay
• Weather.com
• Wikipedia
• Dictionary/Thesaurus

You can download it here.  There’s nothing to install, but I found it convenient to create a shortcut to the .exe file and put it in my Windows > Start Menu > Programs folder, so it will show up in Programs.

Upcoming Features:

• More resolutions
• Non-touchscreen support
• Portrait mode
• All new icons
• Auto-hide navigation
• Open Source (they are working on cleaning/commenting the code)

 Pretty cool!