Ovi Browser Released; Rich Quick Browser for S40 Devices

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by Clinton Jeff | on July 29th, 2010 | 2 comments

Remember that whole Ovi Browser deal we stumbled upon? Looks like it’s quite real.

Nokia BetaLabs released the new Ovi Browser today, which turned out to be a rich web browser for S40 devices.

Ovi Browser brings rich web browsing to Series 40 devices that’s fast, easy, and saves on data charges. The browser is powered by patented cloud-based Internet compression technology that delivers advanced web pages to your phone. As a result, pages show up quicker than ever and over the air data usage is reduced up to 90%. Beyond performance, the browser includes an innovative user interface that makes it easy to access your favorite content directly from the start page without having to hunt through menus.

So basically the Ovi Browser is competition to other S40 browsers like Opera Mini. It’s powered by patented Internet compression technology that delivers advanced web pages to your phone. The result is that pages show up quicker than ever, plus over the air data is reduced by up to 90%. Beyond performance, the browser includes an innovative user interface that makes it easy to access your favourite content directly from the start page without having to hunt through menus.

Here’s a quick introductory video:

Key Features

* Fast page load times
* Over the air data usage reduced up to 90%
* Three view modes – Full Page View, Zoomed-in View, Column View
* Integrated search on start page with selectable list of search engines
* Favourites
* Browsing and Search history
* URL and Form auto completion
* Snap to text during scrolling
* Speed scrolling using numeric keypad
* Automatically jumps to the main content on a page to reduce scrolling
* One click jump to login and search in Column View
* Page segmentation in Column View to simplify navigation

The Ovi Browser is compatible with the following S40 devices:

Nokia Series 40 phones including: 2700 Classic, 2730 Classic, 3120 Classic, 3600 Slide, 5130 XpressMusic, 5220 Xpressmusic, 5310 XpressMusic, 5330 Mobile TV Edition, 5330 Xpressmusic, 5610, 6300i, 6303, 6500 Slide, 6500 Classic, 6600 Slide, 6700 Classic, 7210 Supernova, 7900 Prism and X3.

You can download Ovi Browser beta by heading to browser.ovi.com on your Mobile device.

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