So far, Apple’s mobile version of the Safari browser has only been seen on the iPhone screen. Previously it’s been ported for Windows on the desktop, but outside of Macs and iPhones, that’s the only non-Apple screen it’s been on. Until now, that is.
The new Samsung L870, a slider S60 smartphone running on Symbian 9.3 that was announced for the European market in April, will be available there beginning August. Its features were revealed today: it’s a tri-band GSM phone with a 3 megapixel camera, and comes with some apps, including a PIM homescreen plug-in and a business-card recognition function, but by far its most interesting and unique feature is that it’ll run Apple’s Safari browser on its 2.4″ QVGA display.
Seems like a solid phone. We don’t know yet how Safari’ll look or fare on a small screen (amazingly, it’ll be a full browser as opposed to a hobbled version), but we’re willing to bet it’ll be better than the S60 web browser. No word yet from either Samsung or Apple as to how this odd pairing came about, but maybe we’ll hear something at the WWDC.
