About that Samsung L870 Safari browser thing...
We now have official word from Samsung regarding the browser on its new Samsung L870 slider. You may recall that the Samsung-issued press release listed "Safari browser (full browsing)" as a feature. Now the clarification: "Actually, L870 is equipped with S60 OSS browser, also known as S60 safari browser because both are using same webcore platform. Sorry again for the unclear specification, and bothering you with this."
Of course, the S60 browser has never been known, even informally, as the "S60 safari browser," but we'll let Samsung bang heads together internally over that one.
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Fernando @ May 30th 2008 10:14AM
To be fair, symbian-freak and other symbian fan sites around the nets called the browser safari for quite a while. So yes, informally.
you know, when there wasn't other browser called mobile safari
Tor Slettnes @ May 30th 2008 3:59PM
The S60 browser is no more Safari than IE is Firefox.
Yes, it uses Apple's WebKit (formerly KHTML) for rendering. IE uses code inherited from NCSA Mosaic, as does (to a lesser degree) Firefox. And Apache ("a patchy" web server) for that matter.
They probably based their assertion on the "User-Agent" string; my N95 sends the following "User-Agent:" header:
Mozilla/5.0 (SymbianOS/9.2; U; Series60/3.1 Nokia N95_8GB-3/20.2.005 Profile/MIDP-2.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.1 ) AppleWebKit/413 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/413
Such user agent strings are notoriously misleading for many reasons. (For one, various statistics about phone data plan usage tend to count access from these S60 browsers as iPhone use...). This browser, though, is neither Mozilla, Konqueror (as KHTML would indicate), or Safari.
It would also seem that Samsung might have another issue with calling this Safari, since Safari is a trademark owned by Apple.
youngcalihottie @ Jun 1st 2008 8:14PM
internally the n95 browser was always known as the "s60 safari browser" so it totally makes sense that it's what they meant.