Digia has announced it has developed a new browser for the UIQ 3 platform - Digia @Web. The browser is based on a port of the open-source webkit browser engine (as used in S60's Browser) and be controlled using finger touch. Features include page control with finger, four zoom levels, intelligent bookmarks, URL auto-completion, full screen browsing and screen rotation. A beta of the browser will be available later in June and will be available for all touch enabled UIQ 3 devices.
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Bad news. This trend for touch operation is leading to oversize phones. All the years of ever-smaller more portable and convenient handsets is being regressed back toward the brick, or in this case or the iPhone case back towards a slab.
Say what?? You are aware uiq phones are not, and never were, entirely touch based? So that is plain dumb. This is great news for uiq3.
Oh, and the latest uiq3 are really gigantic (g900, g700), its really a trend
Phones that are entirely touch based are necessarily large, that's the point. The slide and pinch movements of the iPhone wouldn't work well in a small screen, so a large form factor is required.
Dumb? You are showing how it's done.
WHY are you refering the iphone in this??? Maybe that�s what�s dumb. We are talking about something great for UIQ users, could not care less about the iphone.
Many times I look at my P1i and think "How very NICE would it be to take away those keys and make the screen nearly the full height of the phone, to get more screen space", and I think a good browser like @Web will only make this longing stronger because the keyboard wastes so much room that the screen would urgently need while browsing, and I wonder why SE does not make at least ONE phone model with such a screen (Xperia X1 does NOT count, of course, as a non-UIQ phone), having had such a long lead with touchscreen-based phones anyway, and then I remember that there is that phone from a fruit company with the phone's name unspeakable here, because we are talking about UIQ of course, but nevertheless...