What's this "webkit browser for Symbian^3 coming in December/soon/later" nonsense I hear around here? Symbian^3 is ALREADY RUNNING A WEBKIT BROWSER for God's sake - it's been running a Webkit Browser since even before Symbian^1.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Browser_for_S60

But if you mean an IMPROVED Webkit browser, well, Nokia has been trying to improve S60 Web since god knows lol. Hope they succeed this time, and I can FINALLY not run to Opera Mobile every now and again.

But yeah, the N8 seems like a good enough phone (I HAVE played with a proto before lol) and the UI (especially the menu system) is MILES better then S^1, trust me, but in the end, it's still Symbian.

Which can be good or bad depending on how you like Symbian.

And the Camera is like nothing I've ever seen on a phone, simply put. At least for now.

As for me, not quite as interested as it lacks a QWERTY hardware keyboard. Now hoping that December will quickly come. I need my Meego fix now - especially after the EDOF disaster that Nokia made with the E7's camera.

This post has been edited by Eiraku: Oct 1 2010, 01:48 PM

The Ovi Browser in the link above is actually this thing: http://betalabs.nokia.com/apps/ovi-browser

(darnit sklchan, you beat me to it)

It's a Opera Mini clone for Nokia non-Symbian (S40) phones.

Buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuut, I can be wrong and Nokia MIGHT be preparing something, it's just that I have heard NOTHING about it. What I REALLY think is that they should've just jacked up the RAM in all Symbian^3 devices and just port darned MicroB (N900's browser) to Symbian - that would have been REALLY killer.

The shots might be:

a) From the S^4 shots released a while back
b) From Meego

Do post the screenie back here if you see it anywhere, Leo boss. I'm quite interested in seeing what I've missed.

This post has been edited by Eiraku: Oct 1 2010, 02:11 PM

As far as I love Meego bro, I do think Symbian - as a pure OS - has a good chance against iOS and Android - but Nokia's UI is pulling it back.

At least that's what my Nokia software engineer friend was telling me (from whom I got to test the N8 proto). They're trying to repair the damage done by the last gen S60 people (the guys who worked on S60 up to V5), but it's not an easy task.

As a PURE OS Symbian has one of the best power/resource utilization I've seen in any device. Someone just needs to design a proper UI for it and overhaul the back end to properly support (and take full advantage of) higher end processors and SOCs (and at this, S^3 is a step in the right direction with 3D acceleration - it's just a step taken too late).

This post has been edited by Eiraku: Oct 1 2010, 02:24 PM

That's old news from BEFORE the N8 started shipping. Now it's anybody's guess as of when it's gonna hit.