POSBRO is a Korean-based company founded in September 2006. POSBRO planned to change POSDATA as a base camp for WiMAX hand-held device development and service integration. The companies have gained the name as a total WiMAX (News - Alert) solution provider in the market that covers mobile WiMAX base stations, ASN-gateways and user devices.

POSBRO has selected the Opera browser for the world’s first portable WiMAX gaming device. The POSBRO G100 takes the merit of the high data speeds offered by WiMAX (4G) to deliver on line gaming from a portable device. POSBRO used the Opera 9 for Devices SDK to create a compelling Web experience for people using the G100 device.

The device G100 has a four-inch LCD touch screen, with a game pad which can slide-out. It can be connected through Wi-Fi and Bluetooth in apart from WiMAX. It has a very good speed which helps the users to play all the advanced online games along with many players playing at a time and the environments of the games is great with very good graphics. Accessing websites can also be done with G100.

OSBRO and Korean mobile WiMax have signed the agreement to provide online gaming service through G100 from early 2008. The launch of G100 will happen in the last quarter of this year and the first quarter of the next year in United States. The G100 was demo’d in the Sprint (News - Alert) booth at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas earlier this month.

"We're delighted to bring this revolutionary mobile WiMAX device to US market, and it will dramatically change the way people enjoy games and Internet while they're on the move," Joonil Shin, CEO of POSBRO, was quoted as saying in a press release.

To brief about Opera, the company started out as a research project in Norway's largest telecom company, Telenor, in 1994, and branched out into an independent development company named Opera Software (News - Alert) ASA in 1995. Opera Software develops the Opera Web browser, a high-quality, multi-platform product for a wide range of platforms, operating systems and embedded Internet products.

Opera's vision is to deliver the best Internet experience on any device. Opera's key business objective is to earn global leadership in the market for PC/desktops and embedded products. Opera's main business strategy is to provide a browser that operates across devices, platforms and operating systems, and delivers a faster, more stable and flexible Internet experience than its competitors.

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