Mobile Web Browsing

The WebKit-based browser for S60 and Web Browser for Series 40 provide mobile users with a full web experience on more than 180 million mobile devices, enabling users to access the more than 8 billion web pages on the internet as well as enterprise intranets, just as they would from their favourite PC browsers.

These browsers, built from best-of-breed open-source components, these browsers support playback of a wide range of media, including Flash and video content. For web designers, these browsers provide support for the technologies seen in PC browsers. This means that designing for mobile consumers requires no new skills, so it's never been easier.

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What are the Web Browser for S60 and Web Browser for Series 40?

The Web Browser for S60 and Web Browser for Series 40 are WebKit-based browsers that bring the power and standards of PC browsing to the S60 platform and Series 40 platform. They give users access to the same pages they browse from their favourite PC browsers, even retaining the PC format. And with optimised mobile features — such as the wrapping of column text to screen width — they make it easy for users to read content and navigate sites. Furthermore, these browsers make life easy for developers by supporting the standard web technologies they are familiar with from coding for PC browsers.

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Why should I develop for these web browsers?

There are more browsing-enabled mobile devices in use in the world than PCs. In developed countries, such browsing-enabled devices allow mobile consumers to extend their internet experience from the home or office to anywhere. At the same time, these devices — coupled with advanced mobile networks — provide users in countries with limited fixed-line infrastructures with a cost-effective way to access the internet. As a result, the number of pages browsed on mobile devices is growing rapidly.

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With such huge market potential, mobile browsing offers attractive commercial opportunities to content owners, and with Nokia’s being the leading mobile-device vendor, optimising content for the Web Browser for S60 and Web Browser for Series 40 offers volume coupled with technology that is capable of delivering compelling end-user experiences.

How do I get started?

Because the Web Browser for S60 and Web Browser for Series 40 support standard web technologies and are designed to enable mobile users to browse sites designed for PC browsers, your site may already be well-suited to browsing from S60 and Series 40 mobile devices.

If your site uses the Joomla! or phpBB content management system (CMS), open source plug-ins can help serve your site optimally to the Web Browser for S60 and Web Browser for Series 40.

Custom optimisation — depending on your site’s specific content and usage patterns — may provide your customers with the best possible mobile web experience. Custom optimisation takes into account the differences in PC and mobile browsing styles, the sizes of mobile device screens, and the possibility of bandwidth limits in the mobile network.

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Lite browsing

The Series 40 platform supports a ‘lite’ browser application, in addition to the Web Browser for Series 40. This application will continue to be delivered as the browser application in some Series 40 device models. The lite browser is used predominantly by entry-level phones, and it is already on hundreds of millions of Series 40 devices in use today.

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