“Browsing” Articles

The guys from Nokia’s environmental team have put together a series of videos to show us how using our mobile devices can help us have less impact on the environment. Some interesting stats include how updating your Facebook status once on your PC consumes the same amount of energy as updating it a hundred times on your phone. To put that into perspective, if only ten percent of the one billion plus Nokia users, surfed the web on their mobile instead of their desktop computer for one hour a day, we could avoid over 2.7 million tons on CO2 emissions per year. Check out the video after the jump to see what kind of difference browsing on your mobile makes.

Opera Software has recently announced that both of its mobile web browsers for Symbian smartphones have been updated out of beta. Opera Mobile 10 and Opera Mini 5 are currently the best 3rd party mobile web browsing solutions available for Nokia S60 handsets, and the final version release puts all the necessary finishing touches on the Opera mobile-browsing duo. You can download both Opera Mobile 10 and Opera Mini 5 for your S60 3rd Edition and S60 5th Edition devices from our Nokia Applications pages.

Silverlight, a cross-browser, cross-platform implementation of the .NET Framework for building media experiences and rich interactive applications for the Web on desktop computers, is now officially available for Nokia S60 5th Edition devices such as the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, Nokia N97 and Nokia N97 Mini. Silverlight includes a runtime that is optimized to display content on memory-constrained devices. Silverlight support for Nokia S60 5th Edition devices includes the ability to view Silverlight applications in the mobile browser. You can download Silverlight for your Nokia touch screen device from our S60 5th Edition Applications page.

Nokia seems to be making some good headway with its Point & Find project, and today, at a media briefing in San Francisco, Nokia decided to show off its progress. Nokia Point & Find is a free service that enables people on the move to access relevant information and services on the Internet, simply by pointing their mobile phone camera at a real life object. The service combines the first mobile augmented reality browser on S60 devices with a web-based content management tool that allows anyone to create and publish augmented reality experiences. Check out the cool demo after the break.

Firefox brings some really nice touches to your Nokia N900 – The Awesome Bar makes it a breeze to search your history, bookmarks and tags, and go to your favourite sites instantly. You can also share your Firefox preferences, history, and bookmarks between your desktop PC and your Nokia N900. Not to mention the one-touch bookmarking. And of course, there are also the famous Firefox add-ons that let you customise your browser, as well as Tabs so you can browse multiple sites at once.