Greetings from Nokia Mobility Conference 2005 from the S60 mobile browser team at Nokia
Hi, I am at the moment sitting in Barcelona at Nokia Mobility Conference 2005 where in a few minutes our new Web Browser for S60 will be announced. I wanted to take this opportunity to again thank the KDE community and the Apple Safari team for having built the Konqueror and Safari browser, and for your enjoyable collaboration with our team over the past months. It has been a fascinating year for us here at Nokia to develop our new Web Browser for S60. Building a new product is always exciting and challenging at the same time. Bringing the full Web to mobile devices is a bold goal. We think our new browser will make mobile Web browsing fast, intuitive, and more enjoyable for both consumers and enterprise users, bringing us a big step closer to this goal. WebCore/KHTML and JavaScriptCore/KJS are now integral parts of our new browser architecture, and the excellent Web compliance, small size and performance have already impressed our customers. We have also built a couple of cool new features that will make full Web browsing on mobile devices easier and more fun - more information will be available on S60.com and forum.nokia.com pages later today. We think these are truly exciting times for Web browsing on mobile devices. Some of our S60 smartphone studies at Nokia indicate that browsing is already today generating over 60% of mobile data traffic, and improved network performance of WCDMA/3G more than doubles the browser usage compared to GPRS/EDGE. We believe that a browser that is built on open source components can offer top performance, interoperability and innovative features, and we are excited to work together with you on this. Our relationship with KDE community members and the Apple Safari team over the past months has been in particular rewarding for us at Nokia; we had a great time presenting our porting experiences at the KDE aKademy conference in Spain last August and we enjoyed meeting the Safari team in Cupertino - thank you very much KDE and Apple again for your kind invitations. In the next few months we will continue to finalize our product, and we hope that our first devices with the new browser will be shipping already beginning of next year. At the same time we want to strengthen our dialogue with you on how to share and integrate our code, discuss future features and agree on how to collaborate in the future. We are delighted to be working with you on how to "mobilize" WebCore/KHTML and JavaScriptCore/KJS to create the best Web browser based on open source components for mobile devices. Best regards, Your S60 mobile browser 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.
Hi Roland, congratulations on your new browser! a small tip: a good way to test your browser would be of course to give a series 60 phone with this browser to the people of the webkit and kde QA teams :) Kind regards, Joost de Valk @: joost@joostdevalk.nl W: http://www.joostdevalk.nl On Nov 2, 2005, at 10:22 AM, <roland.geisler@nokia.com> <roland.geisler@nokia.com> wrote:
Hi,
I am at the moment sitting in Barcelona at Nokia Mobility Conference 2005 where in a few minutes our new Web Browser for S60 will be announced. I wanted to take this opportunity to again thank the KDE community and the Apple Safari team for having built the Konqueror and Safari browser, and for your enjoyable collaboration with our team over the past months.
It has been a fascinating year for us here at Nokia to develop our new Web Browser for S60. Building a new product is always exciting and challenging at the same time. Bringing the full Web to mobile devices is a bold goal. We think our new browser will make mobile Web browsing fast, intuitive, and more enjoyable for both consumers and enterprise users, bringing us a big step closer to this goal.
WebCore/KHTML and JavaScriptCore/KJS are now integral parts of our new browser architecture, and the excellent Web compliance, small size and performance have already impressed our customers. We have also built a couple of cool new features that will make full Web browsing on mobile devices easier and more fun - more information will be available on S60.com and forum.nokia.com pages later today.
We think these are truly exciting times for Web browsing on mobile devices. Some of our S60 smartphone studies at Nokia indicate that browsing is already today generating over 60% of mobile data traffic, and improved network performance of WCDMA/3G more than doubles the browser usage compared to GPRS/EDGE. We believe that a browser that is built on open source components can offer top performance, interoperability and innovative features, and we are excited to work together with you on this.
Our relationship with KDE community members and the Apple Safari team over the past months has been in particular rewarding for us at Nokia; we had a great time presenting our porting experiences at the KDE aKademy conference in Spain last August and we enjoyed meeting the Safari team in Cupertino - thank you very much KDE and Apple again for your kind invitations. In the next few months we will continue to finalize our product, and we hope that our first devices with the new browser will be shipping already beginning of next year. At the same time we want to strengthen our dialogue with you on how to share and integrate our code, discuss future features and agree on how to collaborate in the future. We are delighted to be working with you on how to "mobilize" WebCore/KHTML and JavaScriptCore/KJS to create the best Web browser based on open source components for mobile devices.
Best regards,
Your S60 mobile browser 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.
Hi Roland, congratulations on your new browser! a small tip: a good way to test your browser would be of course to give a series 60 phone with this browser to the people of the webkit and kde QA teams :) Kind regards, Joost de Valk @: joost@joostdevalk.nl W: http://www.joostdevalk.nl On Nov 2, 2005, at 10:22 AM, <roland.geisler@nokia.com> <roland.geisler@nokia.com> wrote:
Hi,
I am at the moment sitting in Barcelona at Nokia Mobility Conference 2005 where in a few minutes our new Web Browser for S60 will be announced. I wanted to take this opportunity to again thank the KDE community and the Apple Safari team for having built the Konqueror and Safari browser, and for your enjoyable collaboration with our team over the past months.
It has been a fascinating year for us here at Nokia to develop our new Web Browser for S60. Building a new product is always exciting and challenging at the same time. Bringing the full Web to mobile devices is a bold goal. We think our new browser will make mobile Web browsing fast, intuitive, and more enjoyable for both consumers and enterprise users, bringing us a big step closer to this goal.
WebCore/KHTML and JavaScriptCore/KJS are now integral parts of our new browser architecture, and the excellent Web compliance, small size and performance have already impressed our customers. We have also built a couple of cool new features that will make full Web browsing on mobile devices easier and more fun - more information will be available on S60.com and forum.nokia.com pages later today.
We think these are truly exciting times for Web browsing on mobile devices. Some of our S60 smartphone studies at Nokia indicate that browsing is already today generating over 60% of mobile data traffic, and improved network performance of WCDMA/3G more than doubles the browser usage compared to GPRS/EDGE. We believe that a browser that is built on open source components can offer top performance, interoperability and innovative features, and we are excited to work together with you on this.
Our relationship with KDE community members and the Apple Safari team over the past months has been in particular rewarding for us at Nokia; we had a great time presenting our porting experiences at the KDE aKademy conference in Spain last August and we enjoyed meeting the Safari team in Cupertino - thank you very much KDE and Apple again for your kind invitations. In the next few months we will continue to finalize our product, and we hope that our first devices with the new browser will be shipping already beginning of next year. At the same time we want to strengthen our dialogue with you on how to share and integrate our code, discuss future features and agree on how to collaborate in the future. We are delighted to be working with you on how to "mobilize" WebCore/KHTML and JavaScriptCore/KJS to create the best Web browser based on open source components for mobile devices.
Best regards,
Your S60 mobile browser 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.
On Nov 2, 2005, at 1:22 AM, roland.geisler@nokia.com wrote:
Hi,
I am at the moment sitting in Barcelona at Nokia Mobility Conference 2005 where in a few minutes our new Web Browser for S60 will be announced. I wanted to take this opportunity to again thank the KDE community and the Apple Safari team for having built the Konqueror and Safari browser, and for your enjoyable collaboration with our team over the past months.
Hi Roland, Congratulations on making this announcement. The Web Browser for S60 looks pretty awesome and I can't wait to try it for myself. We're really excited that Nokia chose to base this browser on WebCore/KHTML and JavaScriptCore/KJS, this gives us the opportunity to create the best layout engine for both desktop and mobile platforms. And we're really happy to see Nokia's open source initiative at <http://opensrouce.nokia.com>. Open source is a powerful development model and it's good to see Nokia moving towards it in a bigger way. We're looking forward to continuing collaboration! Regards, Maciej
participants (3)
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Joost de Valk
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Maciej Stachowiak
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roland.geisler＠nokia.com