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06-15-2005, 03:00 PM

Janak Parekh Editor Emeritus Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 15,171		Open Source Browsing Solutions and Mobile Devices http://news.com.com/Nokia+taps+Appl..._3-5744261.html "Nokia has tapped Apple Computer's open-source knowledge for its next-generation smart-phone browsing. The new browser for Nokia's Series 60 smart-phone software package is expected to debut in June. It will incorporate some of the same open-source technology--WebCore and JavaScriptCore--found in Apple's Safari Web browser, which is based on KHTML and KJS from the open-source K Desktop Environment's (KDE) Konquerer browser." I'm less interested in a hybrid Nokia/Apple/KDE solution from a Pocket PC user's perspective per se; I'm more interested about the fact that Nokia is adopting a mature open-source web browsing technology to power their next Series 60 phones. If the renderer approaches anything like that of Safari, Nokia will easily leapfrog many of its competitors and have the most powerful browsing solution available. As the article implies, Minimo holds out a similar hope for Pocket PCs. Believe it or not, open-source is slowly becoming more important -- and beneficial -- in the PDA world as well as the desktop world as PDAs' computational power and toolsets continue to approach that of desktops'.

06-15-2005, 08:49 PM

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Re: Open Source Browsing Solutions and Mobile Devices

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Originally Posted by Janak Parekh

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I'm less interested in a hybrid Nokia/Apple/KDE solution from a Pocket PC user's perspective per se; I'm more interested about the fact that Nokia is adopting a mature open-source web browsing technology to power their next Series 60 phones.

I'm interested in what this means for Opera. If Nokia are going to provide their own web browser for the series 60 what does that do to Opera's desire to support the platform and will they look around for another platform that has less than stellar browser support .....step forward pocket pc.

It can't be that much work to port from the MS smartphone platform to ppc.

Anyway my fingers are crossed.

06-18-2005, 08:36 AM

ivanii Neophyte Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 6		Interesting enough, Nokia have already donated Mozilla Foundation, so people thought that it will use Minimo on its phones.

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