14 DAY TRIAL // eBay and Opera Software announced recently a joint pilot project to bring eBay's Online Marketplace to mobile phones in Germany.
By offering a customized version of the popular Opera Mini mobile Web browser, eBay and Opera will enable people to sell, bid and buy using their mobile phones, anywhere, anytime. Because Opera Mini is a full HTML Web browser, eBay.de can now offer its users the same feature-rich experience on mobile phones as on PCs.
eBay Germany has 20 million customers, making it the largest eBay community outside of the USA. In total, eBay has more than 193 million registered users worldwide.
The fully customized Opera Mini eBay edition offers direct mobile access to eBay's content and functions through an eBay search field and bookmarks displayed on the browser's start page. An integrated eBay menu page lets users browse, bid, buy and sell using their mobile phones, just like they do on their PCs. Because the Opera Mini eBay edition is a Web browser, they can also surf the full Web with the speed and ease-of-use for which Opera Mini is renowned.
"With this pilot project our users will get a new eBay browsing experience on their mobile phones," says Bj?rn Behrendt, Senior Manager Platform Solutions, eBay Germany. "We are excited to provide our users with full access to all of eBay's auctions on their mobile phones - whenever and wherever they are."
The Opera Mini eBay edition is available as a free WAP download by directing the phone's WAP browser to http://mini.opera.com/ebay/ or by sending an SMS with OPERA to 88881 (?0.49).