This official blog entry in S60 Browser Blog prretty much sums it all up. Nokia will continue using WebKit as the core technology in it’s S60 Browser offering and possible expansion of the browser itself. A few days ago I posted my concern over Nokia’s silence in the development of the S60 Browser. However, with this statement from the S60 Browser Blog, it is now clear that we will see more advanced features in the S60 Browser. So dont worry folks, your future S60 smartphones will sure be using WebKit

Source : Symbian-Freak

Samsung’s latest  assault to compete with the Finnish behemoth has just been revealed in the Tele-Vision fair in Nieuwegein (is that in the Netherland? - sorry, I’m bad in geography :-)). The L870 is a quad-band slider with GPRS and UMTS support, FM radio, 3 megapixel camera and USB 2.0. The L870 is, notably, only 13.5mm thick, thin for a slider smartphone. Thanks to AAS for the info.

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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 …

Mobile-Review posted a comparative review of 2 8GB Symbian smartphones (it’s a looooonnngggggg article, make sure you prepare your coffee…). Anyway, the reviewer stated that: “the Nokia N81 has earned more points (eight, to be precise), most of which are scores on the most vital fronts. And the W960i is a different creature – no doubt, it is an interesting product, it is handy in use, but… only as long as you don’t face it off against its closest rival”. Err… Different beasts with different powers I suppose… Head over to Mobile-Review.Com for the full texts (and tons of photos, as usual…)

How cool it would be if our phones can automatically change the theme according to our preference? This is now a reality thanks to a new application from Symbian-Guru which is actually an automatic theme changing scheduler.

Symbian Guru released AutoThemes application for Series 60.3. AutoTheme is a cute theme scheduler for Nokia Smartphones. Application changes themes automatically, according to the active profile or user defined time schedule.

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