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Here's a list of popular smartphone OSes:

- S60

- WinMo

- iPhone

- Android

- Blackberry

iPhone and Android are pretty much covered with good WebKit implementation. Check in one of those and most likely your page will work in the other.

PPK claims that S60 WebKit is much inferior, but there's Opera Mobile 10 for S60 and for WinMo.

Blackberry doesn't have a good browser at the moment (although they are likely to get one). Opera is making an optimized version of Mini for it, though.

Practically all other phones run Opera Mini too. Version 5 uses the same engine as Mobile but it has a much lesser JavaScript capabilities. Personally I prefer it to the default S60 Webkit on Nokia 5800 ExpressMusic.

At the moment it's all seem not that complicated to me: check in Apple WebKit (Android/iPhone), Opera Mobile and Mini, and hope that other browsers will catch up eventually.

Mini can be run in Java emulator, and desktop Opera browser has a "small-screen" rendering mode (should work like Opera Mobile). Same goes with desktop Safari and iPhone.




> iPhone and Android are pretty much covered with good WebKit implementation. Check in one of those and most likely your page will work in the other.

This is tangential. I would have thought you were right, but in my anecdotal experience, it's very much not the case. I have an Eris; wife has an iTouch. Our browsing experiences are night and day surprisingly often.

I'm picking this nit mostly because it surprised the hell out of me.




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