The menu button opens the main menu (image above, right) which lets you go to the start page, add the current page to your bookmarks and share the page on Facebook or Twitter.
The navigation bar has a combined URL/Search box in the middle, a stop/refresh button on the right and a menu button on the left. Tapping an upward arrow icon at the bottom right of the screen (visible in the images above) brings up a top navigation bar and a bottom toolbar (below, left). The browser’s menu structure is relatively flat and easy to navigate. If you lock the key pad in number mode by pressing the function key key twice, the 2 and 8 keys act as page up and page down, which I find faster and more precise than drag scrolling. The Asha 303’s capacitive touch screen is very responsive and pages scroll easily with a light touch.
This is different from most touch screen browsers which use a double tap to toggle between zoomed in and zoomed out view, but it works well and does take fewer taps, always a good thing. To zoom back out you tap an onscreen minus sign button (lower left in the image on the right, above).
A single tap switches between zoomed out and zoomed in.
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With pages that aren’t mobile optimized there are two zoom levels, an initial fully zoomed out page overview (above, left) where you can see the full width of the page, and a zoomed in view with readable text in columns that fit the screen width (above, right). The entry form suggests words and URLs as you type, based on previous input. However, more experienced users will probably like to be able to customize the start screen, which currently isn’t possible.ĭata entry is handled by a full screen edit window (above, right) which opens when you tap the URL address bar or a field on a web form. This curated set of quality mobile destinations is a great starting point for new mobile web users. For some Asha purchasers, the phone may be their first opportunity to explore the web on their own.
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The Start page content is localized for 20 countries today, in addition to a global version. Nokia is currently running a promotion with the five biggest mobile operators in India right now that gives purchasers of the Nokia 202 six months of free data. When you launch the S40 browser a startup screen (image above, left) loads with a bunch of pre-configured links to popular sites like YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Wikipedia and the Nokia Store and to a weather web app. S40 web apps and the web app development tools and ecosystem deserve a post of their own which I’ll be publishing here in a week or so. Nokia has created Nokia Web Tools, an easy to use free desktop SDK for creating web apps, that helps web developers to quickly get up to speed building apps for the platform. In the image above, left, the three icons on the right in the bottom row are web apps. Web app icons can be added to a shortcut bar widget on the phone’s start screen on the Asha 303. When installed they show up as icons in the phone’s Apps and games folder just like Java Apps. Users can choose from thousands of web apps in the Nokia Store. They are built with HTML, CSS and JavaScript and have access to device features including geolocation and messaging. Web apps run full screen without the URL/search bar or browser menu (image above, right) and look and act much like native or Java ME apps. The most interesting feature of the Nokia Browser is that it supports Web Apps. The proxy architecture helps even basic phones display large complex desktop pages that would otherwise overwhelm their limited resources. Because the proxy compresses web content by up to 90% before it’s sent to the phone, pages load up to three times faster, at a tenth of cost they would with a direct browser. Proxy browsers are especially well suited to feature phones and the slow and expensive data that is common in the developing world. When the user requests a page, the browser sends the request to a Nokia server which fetches the page and pre-formats the content before sending it to the browser as a compressed binary stream. The Nokia browser is a proxy browser like Opera Mini and the UC Browser. Nokia has lent me a Nokia Asha 303 S40 Touch and Type phone that I’ve been using to explore the latest Nokia Browser for S40 devices.
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