NOkia New Browser 2.0 - WITH LANDSCAPE!!

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http://www.phonescoop.com/articles/ctia_2006_fall/index.php?p=nb

Just read this on Phonescoop's CTIA Coverage:

Nokia's unique full-web browser for the S60 platform is far and away one of the most innovative and advanced mobile browsers on the market. It allows browsing of full web sites with great, unique navigation controls. Based on the same engine that powers Apple's Safari browser, it renders sites exactly the way you would see them on a PC.

As impressive as version 1.0 is, it does have a few glaring omissions. Which is why (with version 1.0 barely out the door) Nokia is already showing off early builds of version 2.0, which fixes all of our gripes with the first version, and even adds a whole slew of impressive new technologies.

The biggest and most important change is that the web browser is no longer a separate application from the WAP browser; they're integrated now. You can view WAP 1.0, WAP 2.0, xHTML, and HTML pages all in one place.

On a device like the E70, it's great to be able to open the keypad to rotate the display for browsing in landscape (wide-screen) mode, but what about a more standard phone like the N73? Nokia is addressing this in the new browser, with a "rotate display" option to explicitly choose landscape mode.

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The new browser also supports saving of pages for offline viewing:

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Clicking the cursor on a part of the page that isn't a link brings up a new little pop-up toolbar with common commands:

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The toolbar contains icons for recent pages, page overview, reload, search, and RSS.

Speaking of RSS, that part of the software had been overhauled and dramatically improved. It's now pretty much on par with Sony Ericsson's feed reader.

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You can now subscribe to a site's RSS feed directly from that site (the feed is automatically detected.) Once in the RSS reader, icons appear with each site's logo for easy visual identification, and once in a feed, you can see full HTML layout including images. You can also specify intervals for the phone to update all of the feeds automatically, so the freshest news is always on your phone, even if you have no signal at the moment.

The feed reader also supports the Atom format now, in addition to RSS.

The site icons (called favicons) also show up in the bookmarks:

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Other features of the new browser include auto-complete of forms, and a password manager, to make logging into sites less cumbersome on a numeric-keypad device like the N73.

The browser also integrates support for SVG-T and Flash Lite 2, which opens the possibility for some really interesting interactive applications right in the browser.

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I REALLY hope this will be a downloadable upgrade.
 
Having one browser for all would be great! And of course free would be even better, maybe I will put off my opera purchase in hopes that this is released soon.
 
i hope so too.

i read in a S60v3 bug list that the union of Services and Web was slated for FP1.. but they also said that about FOTA.
 
This is old news -- it has been clearly stated this will not be an update for existing devices, and will only go on new handsets yet to be released in the future. Search the forums, there's already another thread about this.
 
However they will be almost next to useless if the RAM on this phones is a crappy as the current batch of 3rd generation OS. I mean, how many people here have had their phone crash and app as soon as they try to multi-task with the browser on. Or crappy battery life. Overall it could be rather Pathetic.

Only Nokia fanboys will buy them, then claim the same phones they just blew so much money on are "perfect." A bias? Nah, never.

I mean of all the phones that have come out, the E61 is the ONLY one with a truly decent battery. Anything under 1150mAh is a total joke. Not if they were S40 but S60? Come on Nokia.
 
It's already been said that the N95 is going to have 64mb of RAM like the E61 and runs the same processor as the N93, if not something better. The only thing to really worry about is the functionality of the GPS, the battery life, and the quality of the 5mp camera.
 
This is really old news. If you look at the Nokia opensource browser page they have a flash animation showing all these features. They introduced it in October. And yes, this is a FP1 only product. So it will be available in the N95 and further device, this was announced as well.
 
BTW, I am dying for the N95 for all these reasons. I can't handle the waiting. Why can't they give us the new browser to tide us over? I hate it.
 
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