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| From: Nintendo
Category: Video Games
Buy Used: $35.00
New (7) Used (12) from $35.00
Avg. Customer Rating:  74 reviews
Sales Rank: 3774
Format: Ntsc
Platform: Nintendo Ds
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Age: 5 - 20 years
Operating System: Nintendo DS
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 4.7 x 0.7
MPN: NTR-G-UBRP
UPC: 045496738730
EAN: 0045496738730
ASIN: B000OAO494
Release Date: June 4, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
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 A whole lot more than expected October 7, 2007
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
I will make this review a short one. This is because I am writting it from the very product I review (actually, I am even using the stylus to write).
I just bought my DS browser yesterday and I can say it is a very cool thing. I genuinely love this this thing! It is simple enough to use and is rather functional. Now, I must confess that it does have its flaws, but they are far outweighted by the positive aspects of it.
I have been able to read news, check my e-mail, browse amazon.com, and surf quite a few others things with great ease.
I must accept, though, that this browser has some limitations: no audio, no video, no flash and some heavier-than-usual load times (although they are not as bad as some might say).
Having said all of the above, I do recommend getting this great product, as it certainly delivers what one expects and is great fun to use.
Something's Better Than Nothing October 3, 2007
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
The DS Browser was a great idea that was poorly executed. Seeing as how this comes from the same group that made Opera Mini, it is a huge disappointment. Despite the fact it's an overall disappointment I still think the DS Browser is better than nothing.
The navigation is about as easy as you would expect. You tap links to open them and you drag pages up and down to read them. The responsiveness is pretty shoddy when a large page is loading, but when it's fully loaded you shouldn't have too much trouble.
The split screen provides a nice browsing experience too. It makes reading long articles much easier. Also, in SSR mode you get a page overview on one screen and a zoomed view on the other. You can swap the screens but it's kind of slow. I would've thought better of this feature if the screen swap was only a couple seconds wait.
You're given pretty standard options at the bottom. Forward, Back, Stop, Refresh, Bookmarks, Options and Search to name a few. I don't think they left out any important features. Although an RSS reader could've been a nice touch.
Pages and images are rendered pretty accurately, assuming they're low on Flash, Java and movie objects. The browser supports javascript but some advanced pages won't render correctly (Google Reader is one).
The major failing of this browser is in the poor hardware and the lack of attention to that fact. The DS Lite doesn't have enough memory to load entire webpages so they added a cartridge. Still, the cartridge memory is much slower than internal memory. The extra memory still isn't enough in some cases. I've been to a few pages that simply could not be loaded due to low memory. Despite these facts they still could've salvaged this browser by providing an optimizing proxy server. I'm totally surprised this didn't dawn on them since Opera Mini uses this technique, beautifully I might add. Seeing as how they didn't do that I would expect the browser to load content on demand. Nope. If you go to a page with 5MB of data the browser will load it all at once.
So basically, if you don't mind long load times, frequent unresponsiveness and the inability to completely load a few pages I think you'll get your money's worth. Due to the larger screen I'd say it's a slight step up from Opera Mini on a phone. This is definitely worse than any PDA browser or the PSP browser.
One more thing. You can possibly squeeze better performance out of this thing by running your own optimizing proxy server or using Google's mobile search.
Pain in the A$$ September 28, 2007
2 out of 6 found this review helpful
I like it to a point. I think that they should have maid it compatible with the original DS. I had to upgrade to the lite DS (witch I dont like as much) just to use it. If Nintendo was smart at all they would have made it compatible with the original. I am highly upset about that..
SLOW BROWSING! BUT PRETTY HANDY September 25, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I bought this a few days ago after reading reviews on it. i never even knew ds had a browser!! this isnt a game its just a little browser...its not so bad its pretty slow but if you disable images its ok. also my tip is to go on mobile webpages...so that its formated fasted and better for this little opera browser. sucks no youtube and stuff but its ok. its just for checking mail. dont check your banking here cause it sucks and it might do something wrong. but reading storys and blogs its fun!!! worth it. (i guess..couldve been cheaper. like 15$ maybe)
I need a cookie... September 21, 2007
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
If you don't have cookies and you're surfing the internet, it's really annoying. Still this is a neat little toy. Good at places like the doctor's office and the car dealership where you're trying to kill time.
Airport too.
You just have to keep re-entering your information since there is no memory of it.
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