I've noticed this trend in Electronic shows and elsewhere. More and more devices are being charged with the standard USB interface.
This is great. The old complaint of a bundle of non-standard charges might be finally on the decline!
*Standards* folks, learn to love them.
I exclaimed “Holy Crap” when I saw the news that Opera has been ported to the Nintendo DS platform.
As a proud Nintendo owner, that’s interesting news. Though how many open Wifi access points are there? Very very few. I have super fast Internet at home and work, so where would I use it? On the train? Has anyone known Wifi to work on a train?
Be cool if they also announced something like Vodafone’s mobile connect so that it would work on trains too. Btw what technology does that expensive Vodafone thing use? CDMA? What-what?
There was also an announcement of a TV tuner add on for the DS. That made me laugh, as there has been quite a bit about people watching TV from mobiles. This won’t be the clip-on-demand service of 3G, but it will be a “damn sight” cheaper! Anyway, I hate TV besides.
Back to Opera. This is a major sales/marketing coup for them. I am actually surprised Nintendo did this, considering the Japanese player Access and their NetFront browser. I haven’t played with NetFront’s browser, so I can’t compare it with Opera’s. Though I am sure Opera’s is probably better. 
I imagine Opera is absolutely ripe for being bought up now. Access is about 100 times the size of Opera.
Onto Free software. I wonder why minimo hasn’t been doing well. Well, maybe it’s my imagination but firefox feels quite heavy to me lately. So shrinking that product would be hell. The mobile market is blowing up and I really don’t think they are into Free software besides, sadly.
I bought a (early Xmas present) Nintendo DS with Mario Kart for a 190AUD. Antoine and I have been playing wirelessly between floors in the hostel we’re staying in. I have never bought a Nintendo before and it is amazing to play such a slick game.
Though it is quite difficult to co-ordinate a LAN game in seperate rooms, as it is impossible to hop into or get instant messaged via PICTOCHAT whilst in another mode.
Paranoid: I am always thinking to myself, what happens if I find a bug? How do I update this?
We tried playing Advance Wars DS with “Direct Play” (as I don’t have the cartridge) and sadly the realtime game mode SUCKS SUCKS SUCKS.
So really there seems to be only Mario Kart as the mobile wireless game. Oh well, we have to start somewhere.
I was hoping to use the DS as a Wireless AP detector. Sadly it is nowhere near as sensitive as my Thinkpad T30. I’ve yet to try Nintendo’s WIFI service. The launch seems to have been done pretty badly. There is only a couple of hotspots in that Australian state of Victoria in places I have never heard of.
There was talk of hotspots in McDonalds. Oh well, all this “free” wifi hotspot stuff never seems to get off the ground sadly. 
They must be worried that laptop users are going to leech the Free Internet.