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Why does the Nokia 770 include Opera and not something built on WebKit?

Categories: Devices
By: , IntoMobile
Monday, December 25th, 2006 at 5:10 PM

Apparently John Tokash has been having problems using Google Reader (my absolute favorite RSS reader of all time) on his Nokia 770. Until today I never knew the 770 ran Opera. All I have to ask is why?

Why not build something from the ground up using the same open source browser you throw on all Symbian Series 60 devices? More importantly whenever Flash 9 gets released (final release, it’s already out in beta) for Linux, are you going to have a port available on your internet tablet?

Not supporting youtube or google video is quite a turn off for me. Speaking about things to port, can some one please pay someone to port VLC to the 770?

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Stefan Constantinescu

Stefan Constantinescu (@WhatTheBit on Twitter) has loved technology since as far back as he can remember. It started with computers, but in the past few years his passion has turned to mobile devices. As a mobile phone enthusiast who lives and breathes devices that connect to the internet, he knows he is not alone with this radical fascination of all things wireless. He is strongly opinionated and enjoys a good debate so leave comments in his posts and he’ll get back to you! Stefan began blogging as a hobby in the fall of 2006 and joined IntoMobile in the summer of 2007. Later he got a job at Nokia in March 2008, but as of June 2009 he has rejoined the IntoMobile team. He is currently based out of Helsinki, Finland.

  • Marc Orchant

    A Mozilla browser build suitable for the 770 is available from maemo.org.

  • Stefan Constantinescu

    oh man if you can you’d be a god!

  • Derek Coleman

    Then by the hand of Midas, it shall be done!