Running Opera 8.00u1 on an i-mate JASJAR

Tired of waiting for the Pocket PC version of Opera, I downloaded the trial version of Opera 8.00u1 for Windows Mobile Smartphone 2003 and just tried to install it on my brand new i-mate JASJAR. Lo and behold, it worked! I kid you not, I even managed to get VGA support by tweaking the exe using res2exe -c hidpi.res opera.exe.

So, two conclusions:

1. Getting Opera to run on Windows Mobile 5 with a good interface should be a quick job for the handy engineers at Opera Software
2. Microsoft has done a hell of a compatibility trick for Windows Mobile 5, way to go!
3. I can't count worth shit, but the i-mate JASJAR is THE coolest mobile phone on the planet, hands down.

Kim Nyberg

Ps. In order to get the screenshot I had to tweak remote display using the same res2exe tool.