Application Tip: S60 browser Goes iPhone
Posted by: Phat^Trance in Nokia, Nokia Apps (S60v3)
This application workds great on my n95-1. Here are some words from the author…
Sometimes I envy iPhone owners. It doesn’t help that my phone – unlike iPhone – has an open platform, tons of 3rd party applications, embedded GPS, good camera, 3,5G connections etc. What my phone doesn’t have is the marketing buzz that pushes major web sites to make special optimized pages for iPhone users. I’m a big fan of Google’s solutions and when they launched a special service for iPhone, I made a quick software hack and changed the N95 browser to introduce itself as iPhone’s browser. Result was somewhat surprising. Both phones have a browser with a common core (I’ve been told) and AJAX support, so my guess was that pages made for iPhone would work just fine with N95. However, that was not quite the case: iPhonesque Google-pages in S60 don’t every time draw completely and some items seem to be missing….
What I can see from iPhonesque pages is that pages designed for iPhone are easier to read and they are visually more pleasing. Take a look at screenshots below for comparison; original S60 page left, iPhonesque right. Perhaps the biggest visual change was on Picasa services (however, no screenshots about that – family pics kept hidden).
For those of you who want to try “iPhone on S60″, I can send an unsigned SIS-file to you.
Update: I managed to upload the sis file here unsigned_S60_iPhone.sis
Note that you must sign it with your developer certificate (this is also a good place to remind about updated Symbian Signed process and new capabilities if you have publisher ID) including capabilities ReadDeviceData WriteDeviceData NetworkControl SwEvent NetworkServices LocalServices ReadUserData WriteUserData UserEnvironment. SIS-file supports S60 3rd edition feature pack 1. When you get the SIS installed, go to www.google.com/m and see how the look-and-feel changes.
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