The new Samsung L870, which will be released in Europe around August, features the Mobile Safari browser. The L870 is the very first model outside the iPhone that features the ‘Apple browser’. I guess this is a big win for Apple. If they hadn’t already proved to have built the best mobile browser, this might just be the best proof there is. Funny enough, I installed Opera Mobile on my Nokia N95 8GB today and it didn’t quite work out as I hoped it would. It crashed everytime it tried to open a website, which is quite an essential task for a web browser. The pre-installed Symbian browser isn’t what you would expect either. I guess the Safari browser really is the only user friendly mobile browser around. Although, today I read on TechCrunch that Skyfire received a thirteen million cash injection to further develop the next best thing in mobile browsing. Unfortunately, I didn’t get hold of a private beta invite. I guess I’m kinda stuck here.

First of all, I didn’t write stuff here for a while, sorry. I was busy finishing my Bachelor thesis about mobile advertising, I’ll tell you all about in a week or so. But first I need to deal with a big frustration about Nokia:

You are probably all familiar with this. You just bought a new phone and it turns out to be cursed. I experienced this with my freshly bought Nokia N95 8GB in December. At first I couldn’t log on to any Wi-Fi network, although this was a minor problem it kind of frustrated me. Besides this I experienced a lot of problems with PC-suite, but I don’t think that’s very surprising, since PC-suite is just a crappy piece of software of which you always hope you’ll never really need it. The real trouble began back in March when all the sudden the screen started flickering and eventually died. I had no idea how this happened. Continue reading…