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Opera Mobile Store opens for business in over 200 countries

By | March 8, 2011, 6:13am PST

Summary: Opera has launched its own Mobile Store today, which will be accessible via “virtually any mobile platform and device” in over 200 countries.

Opera has launched its own Mobile Store today, which will be accessible via ”virtually any mobile platform and device” in over 200 countries.

The catch is those devices have to be running Java, Symbian, BlackBerry and Android operating systems. (Um, can you guess who is missing? At least for now…)

Anyway, the free and paid apps will be up for grabs using Opera Mini and Opera Mobile browsers. Each app is expected to have been tailored to open optimized for the phone’s OS as well as the local currency and language.

You can follow this link to check out the Opera Mobile Store, made in partnership with Appia, but you’ll quickly notice that it would look better in a tiny smartphone browser.

And if you’re a developer keen on creating some apps for this platform, there is the Opera Publisher Portal to get you started.

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Rachel King is a staff writer for ZDNet based in San Francisco.

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Rachel King is a staff writer for CBS Interactive in San Francisco. Before serving as a contributing editor at ZDNet in New York City for two years, she previously worked for The Business Insider, FastCompany.com, CNN's San Francisco bureau and the U.S. Department of State. Rachel has also written for MainStreet.com, Irish America Magazine and the New York Daily News, among others. Rachel has a B.A. in Mass Communications and History from the University of California, Berkeley and a M.S. in Journalism from Columbia University, where she served as art director for the student magazine, Plated.

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