The Opera Widget manager is a standalone application allowing you to organize and run widgets independently of the browser. The manager integrates with Opera’s distribution channel for widgets – widgets.opera.com – and responds to files with a .wgt
extension.
Figure 1: The Opera Widget manager application on different platforms
The Widget manager application for Windows Mobile and a developer version of the application for the S60 platform are both included in the Opera Widgets SDK.
The Windows Mobile Widget manager gives you one-click access to your favourite widgets. The Windows Mobile Widget manager is available as an add-on download to the Opera Mobile browser for Windows Mobile. It can be downloaded from http://www.opera.com/products/mobile/download
The Windows Mobile Widget manager includes the following widgets by default: Twitter, Mystatus, Google Translate, Geoquiz and Bubbles. It links to an updated version of the Opera Widgets website, where more widgets can be downloaded.
Note that this manager depends on the browser component already being installed.
.cab
file on your device. Double-click it to start the installation.There are more detailed Windows Mobile instructions available.
The Widget manager brings widgets to the S60 platform at the touch of a button. The build does not include the Opera browser component – the build has been made available so that developers can test and build Opera Widgets even before our product hits the market.
The application has been tested on the following handsets:
Several new features have been added in this update. These include:
Figure 2: Installing on S60
To run widgets on your device, do the following:
You can also visit widgets.opera.com using your phone’s browser to download more widgets.