> The browser was always a second class citizen, a third party component Before the iPhone, the browser in Nokia phones was almost cuttting-edge, based off a v

> The browser was always a second class citizen, a third party component Before the iPhone, the browser in Nokia phones was almost cuttting-edge, based off a version of Webkit shortly after it was open-sourced. Unfortunately, it stagnated as Nokia neglected to track the Webkit trunk. My Nokia E71 could render the iPhone version of Google Reader, with all it's AJAXy goodness, perfectly and far better than (say) a Blackberry. That's how I read most of my feeds for about two years. (I now have an Android.) Nokia is now pouring a lot of effort into QtWebkit and the Symbian mobile browser, which should resurrect that part of the platform and bring it up to this decade's standards. They're also basing their JavaScript application platform ("WRT") off QtWebkit, with hooks to allow access to native O/S functionality, and it's being heavily promoted as a development platform on equal footing to Qt C++. Much of this development is going on in the open (http://bugreports.qt.nokia.com/secure/BrowseProject.jspa http://bugreports.qt.nokia.com/secure/BrowseProject.jspa), so you can track this progress.