Details and pics of Wii Internet Channel final version

Nintendo's official U.S. Wii website recently featured a translated discussion with the Internet Channel's development team in Japan. Working closely with Opera Software, the group crafted the trial version of the Opera Wii browser and are still fine-tuning it for the official release in April. Based on user feedback, a number of improvements have been made to make Wii surfing easier and faster:

• Auto-hide toolbar

• Display cursors from multiple Wii remotes (though only Player 1 can actually click)

• Favorites page immediately accessible

• Improved website compatibility

• Improved zoom leaves text crisp at all levels

• New and better scroll interface

• Search button on the toolbar

• Start up time decreased by 5 seconds

• URL text (www and com) easily accessible

The better zoom and auto-hide toolbar should free up screen real estate, one of our chief complains with the browser. Unfortunately Flash or Java support enhancements weren't mentioned.

[Via Digg]