Nokia And Apple Collaborate On Open Source Browser 177
Michael writes "Nokia's ambitious bid to make the mobile phone as important a client device for business and leisure as the notebook PC took another important turn last week with news that it has created a browser in collaboration with Apple, which will be managed under the open source process. This starts to address awkward web browsing, a key weakness of the phone's bid to be the 'new notebook', and it raises interesting questions about how much further Nokia and Apple could go in cooperating on the anti- Microsoft ecosystem, and how far Nokia is committing its future to Linux."
Re:How about... (Score:5, Informative)
"People" want a phone that checks their e-mail, checks their websites, checks their blood pressure and checks their oil, all at a touch of a button.
Oh, and full polyphonic and mp3 ringtones.
dupe... (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Oh for the love of (Score:2, Informative)
I was going to say the same thing. Opera's not OSS, but it's worked hard to become the leader in this market. Is this just a case of NIH syndrome? Apple and Nokia will spend more on developing something on their own.
Re:How about... (Score:3, Informative)
Using Bluetooth on my V551, I can even upload ringtones and wallpaper directly from Windows XP and Mac OS X, without having to use the USB cable and Motorola Mobile Phone Tools software like I did with my V400. It doesn't get much simpler than that.
Just be sure to use a low bit rate and mono sound for best results (the speaker isn't exactly hi-fi, so 48 Kbps/mono sound works great without taking up a lot of space for me, leaving more room for more ringtones).
Series60/Symbian and 770/maemo (Score:3, Informative)
1) for 770/maemo
this will be shipped with an opera-browser, but WebKit was ported to GTK+ (the toolkit used by maemo) as part of the feasability study. This port can be found under the name gtk-webkit and is used for the atlantis browser.
2) for the Series60 (Symbian based)
For this series Nokia is porting WebKit to the Symbian OS and Symbian toolkit, and will thus create a new browser.
links:
http://khtml.info/ [khtml.info]
http://kde.org/ [kde.org]
http://gtk-webcore.sourceforge.net/ [sourceforge.net]
http://www.akcaagac.com/index_atlantis.html [akcaagac.com]
http://www.series60.com/ [series60.com]
http://www.symbian.com/ [symbian.com]
http://www.nokia.com/nokia/0,1522,,00.html?orig=/
http://www.maemo.org/ [maemo.org]
g'luck...
Cies Breijs
Nokia is not one entity (Score:1, Informative)
I met a few Nokia engineers 7 months ago and all were very very strongly against software patents. It's Nokias patent dept and senior management that want them.
The senior tech manager I met said he knows that if Nokia gets its patents, it will not need to spend so much on R&D and they'll all get the boot for cheap Asian programmers.
'Strong' emails have gone round strongly requiring Nokias staff to back the software patents. Its not their fault.