Nokia, Apple building open-source browser for Series 60 phones

Apple's Safari web browser may not be available on the majority of the world's personal computers (at least not officially, that is), but it's about to carve out a whole new market — on smartphones. Nokia has been working with Apple to develop a new browser for its Series 60 phones, which will be based on WebCore and JavaScriptCore, the open source components that are the basis for Safari. Apple recently caused a stir in the open source community when it broke away from the KHTML project (which developed the technology behind WebCore and JavaScript Core) to form its own open source project focused on its WebKit environment, which includes WebCore and JavaScript Core. The new browser, to be compatible with all Series 60 phones, including those from LG, Panasonic and Samsung, is expected to be available in the first half of next year. Though Nokia says it will "actively participate in the open source community to further develop and enhance these components," there's currently no info or source code related to the project on the WebKit web site.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 1:36AM]

Safari rocks. Its very fast. Bring it on!

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 1:36AM]

Steve never informed IBM, http://www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=1128

Hopefully this will make more people buy Nokia's ;).

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 1:36AM]

For you guys on PC's Firefox is basically the closest you can get to Safari.. but that's where the ideas came from.. nothing really new there...

BTW.. I really like Firefox.. they've done stuff which is very slick, considering.. it's Windows..

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 1:36AM]

IE or Opera running on a Smartphone is faster and better than the Nokia.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 1:36AM]

Hope this means that they will maybe work a bit closer with Apple and get there phones to work with iSync

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 1:36AM]

Why do they need Safari, when they already have Opera?

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 1:36AM]

Why? Nokia has Opera on smart phones, its great and does everything i need. It came free with my phone, i think it also comes with other Nokia series 60 phones, atleast in Europe.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 1:36AM]

Looks like a N70 to me.

I'm trying to get hold on a 6680 at the moment as soon as my carrier gets any stock. A 2 meg camera would be nice but not essential.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 1:36AM]

Hmmm... Apple vs. Opera. Interesting. :)