Owners of Nokia, Samsung and Sony Ericsson phones that run on a Symbian OS should be getting a new browser in the first few months of next year. The folks behind the incredibly popular Firefox app are beavering away on a Symbian-friendly mobile version, and it should be ready by April 2009.
Dubbed “Fennec” (which is a small desert fox, fact-fans), Firefox Mobile is already available for Linux Maemo and Windows Mobile devices, albeit only in a very early unfinished alpha form. Makers Mozilla hope to have the Symbian version out in a slightly more feature-complete beta version as early as February though – a sign that they view the platform as very important.
We don’t know much about how Fennec will look on your mobile and how it will offer a different web browsing experience to, say, Nokia’s S60 browser or Opera Mini – but presumably it’ll bring some form of tabbed browsing to phones. We’ll know more when the first beta is available for download.
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“it should be ready by April 2009″
Excuse me? That’s not what he’s saying at all. He’s saying that a TESTABLE version will come AFTER April 2009, at some unknown point.
In April, all you will get is something you might be able to browse with. It won’t even be ready for actual testing!