Williamo’s Blog.

I wholeheartedly agree with Zach at Mobile9.com, on both of his posts:

• http://news.mobile9.com/s60apps/2008/07/24/s60-browser-issues-part-2/
• http://news.mobile9.com/s60apps/2008/07/23/the-s60-browser-just-doesnt-cut-it-anymore/

I have a Nokia N95 myself (an S60-based phone, such as that mentioned in the articles above) and love it to death, except - and this is a huge exception - for the web browser.

Granted, while the S60 browser is leaps and bounds above the browsers on other non-smartphones and Windows Mobile devices (Pocket Internet Explorer blows!), it comes nowhere close to the browser on the iPhone. It’s not just the lack of touch screen or having a smaller screen either.

I *can*, believe it or not, read non-mobile formatted websites on my N95. The core of the browser is actually very similar to the browser in the iPhone, and many iPhone-specific sites work quite well on the N95.

However, as you can see from these pictures (sourced from news.mobile9.com), the browser still has it’s large share of rendering issues:

Desktop Browser:

S60 Browser:

Nokia, Symbian, for any of you out there listening, the iPhone is *slaughtering* you in terms of browsing capability. I’ve seriously considered selling my N95 to get the iPhone 3G, but I’m still very disappointed in the iPhone OS in general (way too locked down, Apple style; no background applications, etc.)

Please, please, pretty please, work on an update for the S60 browser that fixes the rendering issues and the frequent crashes! Thank you in advance!