Hi, I am at the moment sitting at the World Wide Web Conference 2006 in Edinburgh where a few minutes ago Nokia announced to open source its S60 WebKit sources. We will release our code under the terms of the open source BSD License, and our source code will be made available through the WebKit Open Source Project site. The code that we are contributing includes many mobility components that are needed for a basic browser, including items such as a memory manager, mobile usability improvements and a reference user interface. In addition we have prepared a number of testing tools and documentation to get you as a developer quickly started. More information can be found from our open source site at http://webkit.opendarwin.org/. As we are moving forward we will be making improvements to tools and release further features. It has been exciting and at times challenging one and a half years for us to develop our new mobile Web browser for the S60 software platform based on Apple's and KDE's fantastic Safari and Konqueror browser code. In 2Q Nokia started shipping our first S60 3rd edition mobile phones with the new browser, and I am pleased to mention that our customers have been highly pleased with the good performance, compliance and feature set of our new mobile browser. I wanted to take the opportunity to thank the KDE community and the Apple Safari team for having built what is today WebCore and JavaScriptCore, a large part of your code is now running in our Nokia mobile phones. After having focused for the past months mostly on our first browser software release, we at Nokia felt that it is time to start looking ahead. With the decision of open sourcing our S60 WebKit code we hope to start a fruitful collaboration with the open source community and partner companies to further develop the Web Browser for S60 and proliferate the engine to other mobile software platforms. We believe that working in the open source will create an innovative ecosystem for mobile browser development that will benefit the mobile industry and browser industry at large. We at Nokia are excited to take this step, and we are looking forward to working together with many of you from the community and partner companies in the near future. If you would like to contact us, please feel free to send us email either directly, via the WebKit mailing list or meet us on the WebKit IRC channel. Best regards, Your Web Browser for S60 team at Nokia, Roland Geisler Head of Marketing & Strategy, S60 Browser Nokia PS: Please forward this email to any contributor whom I may have missed.