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Digia @Web – Finger touch Web browser for UIQ phones
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Digia have announced, Digia @Web, which is a new, fully finger touch controllable, web browser for UIQ phones. Designed for UIQ 3 and Symbian OS the @Web,  claims to provide the best mobile browsing experience, for Symbian UIQ based devices.  @Web is based on the open-source webkit browsing engine ported to UIQ by Digia.

Some of the features include

• Full finger touch UI
• Page control with finger
• Four zoom levels
• Intelligent Bookmark functionality
• URL auto-complete (from history)
• Automatic full screen browsing via auto-hiding Address bar and Navigation bar
• Page rotation for portrait and landscape browsing

Browser Engine features

• HTML 4.01
• True web page rendering
• JavaScript(tm) 1.5
• HTTP 1.1 with support to secure and non-secure browsing
• HTTP cache
• HTTP cookies
• AJAX support

@Web beta version download is supposed to be available on their website during this month, but as of now, they haven’t put it yet. Will update with the link once they do.

As for device compatibility, all touch enabled UIQ 3 devices such as the Sony Ericsson M600, P990, P1i, G700, G900, W950, W960i,  are supported.

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Tags: digia, m600, P1i, p990, touch, UIQ, w950, w960i, Web, web browser

That sounds really good! iPhone’s safari like functionality (and then some)on other phones

Lovingly written by Reeteshinator on 09/06/2008

wow good news…considering that me considering to upgrade soon

Lovingly written by unitechy on 09/06/2008

Did you try it out? How was it?

Lovingly written by Santosh on 09/06/2008

@Santosh They havent put it for download yet, though its mentioned it’ll be available for download in the Month of June.

@Reetesh Yeah Mee too looking forward to test this one

@Unitechy Upgrading to a UIQ phone eh, nice.

Lovingly written by Sathya on 09/06/2008

It will take some serious hard work to match Safari on the iPhone/iPod Touch. Win Mos got touch browsers. I think it was the Symbian ones that were left behind. Hoping this might bring some innovation.

Lovingly written by Manan on 09/06/2008

@Manan I agree.I’d like to see HOW DIFFERENTLY @web handles touch. Opera mini does a great job with the touch – zoom, pan all works great. Will have to wait and see.

Lovingly written by Sathya on 10/06/2008

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