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New Integrated Brower For Latest Series 60 |
axxxr
Joined: Mar 21, 2003
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From: Londinium
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Nokia will be shipping it's latest series 60 handsets with thier own brower. This is a massive blow for other browser vendors, namely Opera and Access. Opera had been the chosen brower released with Nokia's previously released Symbian based S60 phone, the Nokia 6600, but now Nokia has revealed they will be including their own integrated version.
The browser supports HTML, XHTML and JavaScript as well as page re-formatting along the lines of Opera's mobile browser and Access' NetFront. Functionality will shortly be further extended through a browser plug-in application programming interface (API).
Antti Vasara, Nokia VP technology marketing and sales for technology platforms, told ComputerWire that a built-in browser will bring benefits in terms of integration with other applications in the S60 platform, as well as maintaining a consistent application "feel".
"Opera and Access may be a bit better in some areas but overall we think we have comparable performance," said Vasara. "We will leave open the option [for mobile operators, device manufacturers and users] to run Opera or Access on Series 60 if they wish to."
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scotsboyuk
Joined: Jun 02, 2003
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This is quite interesting, although I wonder how effective Nokia will be at taking over from Opera, certainly the tone of the announcement had a certain pessimistic feel to it.
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Posted: 2004-06-19 16:07
