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Nokia has launched a mini-site at\u00a0browser.nokia.com<\/a>\u00a0alerting users that there might be an updated browser available for their phone. \u00a0The site\u00a0touts the\u00a0features\u00a0of the new Symbian\u00a0and\u00a0MeeGo\u00a0browsers and Nokia’s proxy based browser for recent S40 phones.<\/p>\n

For Symbian, the site showcases the latest 7.3 version of \u00a0the Symbian browser and its improved JavaScript performance and support for CSS3 and the viewport meta tag.<\/p>\n

According to Nokia, Browser 7.3 for Symbian is available for all Symbian 3 and S60 5th edition phones and for selected S60 3rd edition Feature Pack 2 (FP2) phones like the N79 and N96. Supposedly you can update the browser on these phones by running the Software Update app on the phone.<\/p>\n

I ran Software Update on my N8 which still has the old 7.2 version of the Symbian browser but no update was\u00a0available. I suspect that Symbian Anna is a prerequisite for the 7.3 browser. \u00a0Because my N8 is a NAM version, which Nokia seems to have forgotten exists, it’s stuck for now on the old pre-Anna PR 1.2 firmware with neither Anna nor Browser 7.3.<\/p>\n

In what most surely is a typo, the site refers to the Nokia N95 a FP2 phone and suggests that browser 7.3 is available for it. Of course, the N95 is a S60 3rd. ed. FP1 phone and as such is not eligible for the upgrade.<\/p>\n

The MeeGo section covers the N9 browser’s state of the art WebKit2 engine and support for HTML5 and CSS3. It’s also the only Nokia browser that supports Geolocation. I’m hoping to eventually get an N9 review unit so that I can put, what by all accounts is the best current mobile browser though its paces.<\/p>\n

The Nokia Browser (formerly\u00a0the Ovi Browser) for S40 mobile phones looks interesting as well. \u00a0Like Opera Mimi, Bolt and the UC Browser it’s a proxy based browser. \u00a0Web pages are pre-rendered and compressed before being sent to the thin Java ME client on the phone.<\/p>\n

The proxy architecture cuts data traffic and page loading times by up to 90% making using the web fast, thrifty and enjoyable even on inexpensive feature phones on slow networks.<\/p>\n

One thing that sets the Nokia Browser apart from other proxy based browsers is that it has the ability to run S40 Web Apps<\/a>, which are Web widgets that run in the browser and are able to execute a subset of JavaScript, called the Mobile Web Library (MWL) in the thin client. \u00a0 This is another browser I would like to get some hands on time with. \u00a0It’s available through the Ovi Store for most recent S40 phones (click here for a list of supported devices)<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Nokia Browser site is interesting in that it’s designed to adapt itself using JavaScript and CSS to the various Nokia browsers and to desktop browsers. \u00a0You can observe this \u00a0by changing the width of the browser window in your desktop browser (I used Firefox to\u00a0make\u00a0the screenshots above). \u00a0As the viewport increases in width the font size grows and the top image changes from a C3 running the Nokia S40 browser to an N8 running the Symbian Browser to an N9 running the MeeGo Browser. The transformation occurs without reloading the page. Pretty slick.<\/p>\n

Via:\u00a0ZOMGitsCj.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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