Nokia today unveiled the new Web browser for its world leading smartphone software, S60 platform. The new browser is aimed to provide smartphone users with a true Web experience and industry leading performance when browsing full Web pages on the Internet using a smartphone. The new Web browser is available to S60 licensees as part of the S60 3rd Edition offering.

The new Web browser for S60 is based on the WebCore and JavaScriptCore components of Apple's Safari Web Kit, the industry's smallest and fastest open source full Web rendering engine for mobile devices that Apple uses in its popular Safari Internet browser. Based on KHTML and KJS from KDE's Konqueror open source project, this software has enabled Nokia to achieve major improvements in Web site usability on smartphones, through the re-use of a proven desktop rendering engine that has been developed and optimized by a large open source community over many years. 

The new browser provides a True Web experience though features such as:

Preservation of the original page layout, presented just as the Web site designers intended; Instead of render the webpage to small size like other pocket browser, you are actually viewing the whole webpage in a small screen. Zoom in the section you want to read by moving the box around the whole page.

Visual History, an easy-to-use back function, showing miniature views of previous pages; Like a slide show, you can nagivate the history left or right and select the history you want to go to.

Text Search, which works as you type, taking you directly to the interesting part of the page;

Web Feeds, providing easy access to RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feeds from Web sites, blogs, and news stories;

Other feature includes Dynamic HTML, supporting dynamic menus, rollovers, and scripted behavior such as AJAX applications; Pop-up blocking, enhanced start page, and simplified menus; Extensive support of industry standards including W3C's HTML, XHTML 1.0, DOM, CSS and SVG-Tiny; other Web standards such as SSL and ECMAScript; and Netscape style plug-ins including Flash Lite and audio.

The following phones will support the new browser

Nokia E60, Nokia E61, Nokia E70, Nokia 3250, Nokia N80, Nokia N71 and Nokia N92