Cellphone

Mobility Phillipines has a good overview of some of the cool features of the Nokia web browser, but it misses a very unique one that I haven’t seen implemented before on a cell.

Even though the Nokia browser (which is based on Safari WebKit/KHTML) renders images and styles as if it were a standard desktop browser, it will flow wrapped text to the width of the phone’s screen.

This means text elements will inherit a certain aspect of that “let’s fit everything in one column” approach that browsers like Opera Mini provide, but without breaking the overall look and layout of the page.

More importantly, it makes it possible to read a normal web page without horizontal scrolling. I know Windows Mobile IE has a “real web” browser and I would imagine they’d do something similar today, but in my earlier experiences which these sorts of clients, a “real” web page rendering required endless back-and-forth horizontal scrolling to read through, and as far as text goes, that pain has been eliminated on the Nokia — It’s pretty damn sweet.