Nokia And Apple Collaborate On Open Source Browser

Michael writes "Nokia's ambitious bid to make the mobile phone as important a client device for business and leisure as the notebook PC took another important turn last week with news that it has created a browser in collaboration with Apple, which will be managed under the open source process. This starts to address awkward web browsing, a key weakness of the phone's bid to be the 'new notebook', and it raises interesting questions about how much further Nokia and Apple could go in cooperating on the anti- Microsoft ecosystem, and how far Nokia is committing its future to Linux."

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Is the same browser..

[brainnolo]

Is it the same browser of few days ago or they are starting a brand new one?

Slashdot. Dupe for Nerds.

Register: WTF

[smittyoneeach]

TFA Headline:

Nokia shifting to Linux as it joins with Apple to challenge Windows 2

I recall 'Doze 3.0, back in the days of the square wheel, and I'm pretty sure that there wasn't much web browsing going on then.
If MS has tricked Nokia and Apple into somehow competing against Windows 2, I'm calling that the IT Judo Throw of the Year.

Nokia's Slogan

[Boss, Pointy Haired]

For a long time, Nokia's slogan to accompany their mobile office features of advanced phones was:

"Now you can get to work before you get to work."

Bollocks to that.

You can't browse the web on a 2" screen!

[Anonymous Coward]

Why don't they make something useful for mobile phones like an open source gopher client?

Re:Nokia works with MS too...

[njfuzzy]

Yeah. Everyone knows all the cool Holy Wars are between Free/commercial software and secular/muslim nations. Get with the 2000s.