Is Nokia backing out from supporting WebKit development?

I dont know folks. Reading this piece from Electronista made me wonder what is really happening in Nokia’s labs? WebKit is the force that empowers Nokia’s S60 Web Browser which shipped in Nokia’s S60 3rd Edition smartphones. Is Nokia going to withdraw from the project?

Call me pessimist but I am a non believer in the current S60 Browser. It eats RAM like nobody’s business and almost unusable in devices like the E61i, and the rendering is just… slow… Even on WiFi or 3G (in my country, anyway). Yeah… It has received some makeups like the latest version in Nokia N95 which supports flash videos but for daily mobile browsing, IMHO it’s just too heavy. I prefer using Opera Mini and to download stuff, I use Opera Mobile 8.65.

With competition from Opera Mobile 9 which uses a new rendering engine called Presto (the same engine used in Opera Desktop 9.5 and Opera Mini 4.x), and also Firefox Mobile codenamed Mozilla Fennec, things are getting more interesting in the mobile browser war. As for yesterday, today and now,  I know which browser I choose, it’s not powered by WebKit and it’s not powered by Gecko You guess …