The first version in 2002 was lacking support for the Wireless Application Protocol and Wireless Markup Language and Adobe Flash lite. s60 version 2 introduced support for WAP and WML. Hence the Nokia Services browser was the default browser on initial device shipments of this platform. Nokia announced porting WebKit to the S60 Browser in June 2005, and made it available in November. At the 2006 World Wide Web Conference, Nokia announced that it was releasing the source code for its port of WebKit back to the community.
Browser
It supports:
HTML
WAP 2.0
Cookies and JavaScript
Wide web pages can be formatted for mobile viewing
Multi-file download
Super web browsing
Drawbacks:
Multi-window browsing is not supported.
It does not compress pages, which puts a greater strain on the phone's processor and bandwidth usage.
S60v3 Browser (1 April 2006)
It supports:
HTML
WAP 2.0
Cookies and flash player
Multi-window browsing
Many files can be downloaded at once. This s60 v3 was the first version to support Adobe Flash lite.
Nokia Browser 7.0
Nokia Browser 7.0 is supported on S60 5th Edition devices. This version supports all of the features of prior to the Nokia Browser 7 releases, as well as the following additional features:
Support for touch devices
On-screen zoom controls
Nokia Browser 7.1
Nokia Browser 7.1 is supported on S60 3rd and 5th Edition devices. New features:
Copy paste support is poor. If you have a device with no Control-key or Pen-key, you can not copy paste in most web forms. With older Nokia models, like N95 or E90, this was not a problem, as N95 had a Pen-key and E90 had a Control-key. New N86 and N97 do not have such keys. However, E72, which was released in 11/2009, has a Control-key.
Some jQuery effects are not supported
Nokia Browser 7.2 (Symbian^3)
The Nokia Browser 7.2 is supported on Symbian^3 and S60 platform devices. New features:
Support for Capacitive touch display
Two finger touch support - on capacitive touch devices only
Support for Optical Finger Navigation
Flash Lite 4.0 - On Symbian 3 devices only
Flash Lite 3.1 - On Symbian 3, S60 5th Edition, and S60 3rd Edition devices
Search Client Integration
Nokia Browser 7.3 (Symbian Anna)
Nokia Browser 7.3 is pre-installed on Symbian Anna devices. Browser 7.3 is also available to Symbian^3 devices as part of the upgrade from Symbian^3 to Symbian Anna. Some S60 3rd Edition and S60 5th Edition devices received the updated browser in the form of firmware updates. This version brings a touch-optimized user interface in addition to better web standards support and improved performance. New features include:
Nokia Browser 7.4 is pre-installed on Nokia Belle devices. Browser 7.4 is also available to Symbian^3/Anna devices as part of the upgrade from Symbian Anna to Nokia Belle. Browser 7.4 added support for the following features:
HTML 5 Audio/Video APIs and UI
HTML 5 Geolocation APIs and UI
URL hash tag navigation within a web page without page reloads
Additionally, the user interface is changed in comparison to v7.3 as follows:
Previous/next page, Bookmarks, Multi-window navigation, menu buttons at the bottom
