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Friday, July 21, 2006
i-Free provides Java-based browser for embedding
I guess everyone's familiar with Opera Mini, whether you've actually used it or not. It's a browser developed in Java ME / J2ME and downloaded to the phone.i'Free's browser is a bit different in that it's actually intended to be integrated into phones. I've mentioned before that this is a trend, as it's easier to develop a Java application and integrate that then to know all the more or less proprietary (and much differing) mobile embedded platforms and develop software for them.
Samsung will integrate this browser in some of its phones, and provide a dedicated browsing/portal button (similar to DoCoMo i-mode etc) for direct access to Samsung's portal. The browser is optimized for accessing this portal, so you can't browse any public web site this way, according to Michael Novikov at i-Free.
What's promised when using this browser is that there's no need for setting up the browser manually. How that's done is not detailed, but I figure it's pre-configured for specifically Samsung's portal and nothing else.
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