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Nokia goes on open source Safari

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Karen Gomm ZDNet.co.uk

Published: 03 Nov 2005 17:35 GMT

Nokia has teamed up with Safari to deliver an open source Web browser for its S60 smartphone software platform.

Nokia says the browser, which will be made available to other companies licensing the S60 platform for their own smartphones, will give users a better surfing experience. It is designed to display Web pages on a phone exactly as they look on a monitor.

The browser includes pop-up blocking, access to RSS feeds and a text search feature. It uses components from Apple's Safari Web Kit — the open source engine for mobile devices based on KHTML — and KJS from KDE's Konqueror open source project.

Nokia announced back in June that it was developing an open source browser for phones that uses its S60 platform. It now hopes that other S60 licensees and the open source community will develop new features for the browser. S60 application developers can also use open APIs to build on top of the browser.

With the availability of higher-speed wireless data networks, operators and handset makers are increasingly working to open up the entire Web-to-mobile users. From 2006, .mobi domains will be available, for sites that are specifically designed to be viewed on a mobile phone.

Also on Wednesday, Nokia launched a portal, opensource.nokia.com, as a central hub of information for all of its open source projects.

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