Comments on: How open source is shaking up the mobile browser market http://www.visionmobile.com/blog/2007/09/how-open-source-is-shaking-up-the-mobile-browser-market/ Distilling market noise into market sense. Sat, 17 May 2008 02:54:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: VisionMobile Forum :: Motorola's UIQ: Diversion or U-Turn ? http://www.visionmobile.com/blog/2007/09/how-open-source-is-shaking-up-the-mobile-browser-market/#comment-18912 VisionMobile Forum :: Motorola's UIQ: Diversion or U-Turn ? Wed, 31 Oct 2007 12:29:24 +0000 http://www.visionmobile.com/blog/2007/09/how-open-source-is-shaking-up-the-mobile-browser-market/#comment-18912 [...] GPLv2 and GPLv3 ‚Äì licensing dynasty or end of the road? How open source is shaking up the mobile browser market Mobile Linux is not about free software What on earth is open source ? 12 comments [...] […] GPLv2 and GPLv3 ‚Äì licensing dynasty or end of the road? How open source is shaking up the mobile browser market Mobile Linux is not about free software What on earth is open source ? 12 comments […]

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]]> By: Andreas Constantinou http://www.visionmobile.com/blog/2007/09/how-open-source-is-shaking-up-the-mobile-browser-market/#comment-14352 Andreas Constantinou Wed, 19 Sep 2007 21:07:18 +0000 http://www.visionmobile.com/blog/2007/09/how-open-source-is-shaking-up-the-mobile-browser-market/#comment-14352 Hi Erkko, Interesting debate. How low can the Opera browser go in terms of phone price points ? Opera mini is only a thin Java-based interpreter for pre-processed HTML pages, not a full browser. But I agree that it's the best browser-like technology available for low-end phones. With regards to Mozilla, I assume you are referring to Minimo. I have not heard of any OEM deploying Minimo, but I 'm aware that Nokia tried it (it had invested in Minimo development) and then turned it down because the browser was too resource-intensive (that was 2 years ago or so). Are you aware of any OEMs planning to use Minimo as a browser ? Andreas Hi Erkko,

Interesting debate. How low can the Opera browser go in terms of phone price points ? Opera mini is only a thin Java-based interpreter for pre-processed HTML pages, not a full browser. But I agree that it’s the best browser-like
technology available for low-end phones.

With regards to Mozilla, I assume you are referring to Minimo. I have not heard of any OEM deploying Minimo, but I ‘m aware that Nokia tried it (it had invested in Minimo development) and then turned it down because the browser was too resource-intensive (that was 2 years ago or so). Are you aware of any OEMs planning to use Minimo as a browser ?

Andreas

]]> By: Erkko http://www.visionmobile.com/blog/2007/09/how-open-source-is-shaking-up-the-mobile-browser-market/#comment-13988 Erkko Mon, 17 Sep 2007 19:27:35 +0000 http://www.visionmobile.com/blog/2007/09/how-open-source-is-shaking-up-the-mobile-browser-market/#comment-13988 I have to agree in principle that the vision here is right and I wish it was this simple. But, at the end of the day Opera is the closest at the moment to providing what low-end mobile phones needs to deliver a real browsing experience, not Webkit. Also Webkit will not alone be able to fully commoditize the browser market, Mozilla will be entering the same field, and a few proprietary players will always exist. I have to agree in principle that the vision here is right and I wish it was this simple. But, at the end of the day Opera is the closest at the moment to providing what low-end mobile phones needs to deliver a real browsing experience, not Webkit.

Also Webkit will not alone be able to fully commoditize the browser market, Mozilla will be entering the same field, and a few proprietary players will always exist.

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