Last week OSNews had the pleasure of meeting with three of the people behind the new Nokia S60 browser sharing with us information about the project. Dig in for more info and lots of screenshots.
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This has probably been asked many times before, but wat are the real world uses for mobile browsing?
I mean, this new Nokia thingy looks really neat and it appears to be a real improvement over the 'previous generation' mobile browsers, but how many people are actually going to use this on a daily basis?
To me, these gadgets are still mostly something you buy, show to your friends over a few beers in your favorite bar ("Look here, guys, this is really coolll") and then stick it back in your pocket only to never use the browsing capabilities of your phone again. Or am I the only one who it this way?
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Most of the new Nokia phones come with WiFi, so these phones --eventually-- are going to replace the PDAs, at least in the business world. Quite a few people use a mobile device to browse the net daily, OSNews alone receives 2000 hits daily from mobile/text-mode users.
I personally use mobile browsing quite a bit. There are mobile pages for slashdot, news.com, gmail, osnews, gnomefiles, msn, yahoo etc, and when there is none, RSS does it as well too.
Last week we went to Reno, NV, for vacations with my husband and we had with us an MS smartphone with a 176x220 screen. While driving there we used it to go to weather sites and check out the weather and the road conditions (it was snowing you see). It proved to be an extremely useful tool, even if involved a lot of scrolling around with IE.
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I have installed a modified gmail-lite engine on my server and I use that. It's a modified interface from this: http://gmail-lite.sourceforge.net/ (my version is more mobile-friendly and I use it only for myself -- the author of gmail-lite didn't care about my UI changes to make it more compatible with more mobile browsers).
Failing that, Gmail will just work using its desktop layout, but without the Ajax JS code, just in plain HTML mode.
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I uploaded two screenshots from my Dell x50v while using my modified Gmail-Lite version on my server:
http://www.osnews.com/img/12965/gmail1.png
http://www.osnews.com/img/12965/gmail2.png
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Do they? I think of all 40 models or so nokia has maybe 2 maximum 3 phones supporting wifi. This is of course not bad since this is just a beginning. But it is far from most of nokia phones.
Also you can not sit and surf on wifi for long before your battery runs out. Especially with the nokias standby. With Sony Ericssons P990 you could do a bit longer but still you could surf much longer on GPRS/UMTS.
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With this being ported to Symbian, I wonder what the chances of having this ported to other platforms like S80, S90, and of greatest interest to me, UIQ. I use Opera 6 on my P910 because it's the best browser available, but if a KHTML browser for UIQ2 were released, I'd definitely switch over to that!
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Î was under the impression, that the N80, E60 and E70 all have 2.1" screens as the N70, N90, 6680 and basically every other old series 60 phone. 2.4" is quite a bit bigger than 2.1" and not that much smaller than 2.8".
symplification.com says the N80 is 2.1" And I read it somewhere else too.
So, whats right? You guys obviously work with a N80 so you can just measure it yourselves.
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>symplification.com says the N80 is 2.1"
If it's 2.1", then the situation is even worse than I mentioned in the article.
>Why not let the user set a minimum text size in pixel like Opera desktop does?
Because this defeats the purpose of the high resolution screen. What's the poind of having a 352x416 screen when even a PocketPC 240x320 can show more text information in one screen then?
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so, what is it, I just want to know what screen size it is, since it might turn me to the Nokia N71 which does have a 2.4" screen
Anyway.
I would rather be able to read web pages at all, even if that DEFIES the purpose of a higher resolution screen. We should petition Nokia to use physically larger screens. Maybe 2.6 or 2.7" screens would be the perfect compromise, couple that with Operas zoom funtion and you get the desired result.
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I also domobile browsing with my T-Mobile MDA compact on a 2.8" screen via GPRS. Many tech pages are optimised like engadget and are quite readable.
I also and mainly use it for web based chat rooms. Where 24h availability can mean the difference between a pleasant evening and a wild night ;-)
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