21 October 2008

Digia Announces @Web
Full Finger Touch Web Browser for Nokia 5800

Digia Plc announced today @Web finger touch browser based on Qt. Digia @Web is a cross platform, full finger touch control browser providing new and intuitive access to the web content.

Running on widely adopted webkit engine Digia @Web provides state of the art web browsing, which is now available for all devices that can support Qt such as Nokia N800 and N810 Internet tablets, and S60 phones.

Mobile browsing is gaining popularity due to increasing amount of WLAN access, flat rate 3G data and WiMAX. Digia @Web empowers users with browser designed to give the optimal mobile browsing experience.

Direct access to true web content is achieved through the full finger touch browser interface designed by Digia.

Jari-Pekka Heikkilä, VP, Smartphone, Digia says: "We see Internet content becoming more and more important for users of different devices and browser as the single most important application in the truly converged devices. By using Qt we can address a wider market that just phones – we believe that more and more embedded devices will benefit from direct and intuitive access to rich Internet content provided by Digia @Web."

Tuukka Turunen, Director, Special Projects from Digia continues: "Digia @Web for Qt has been developed using Qt application framework running on PC and Nokia's Maemo platform. Thanks to the cross platform capability of Qt we directly run the same code in all supported environments, which saves a lot of time on development of applications for embedded devices."

Digia @Web has solid foundation in the widely adopted open-source Webkit browser engine and a whole new type of browser UI that gives powerful and intuitive access to true web content – with full finger touch control. Earlier created for UIQ phones Digia @Web is already in commercial use. Designed to be available first as 3rd party add-on to Qt enabled devices Digia @Web for Qt is also suitable for wide range of Qt enabled embedded devices. Other users of the Webkit browser engine include Apple Safari browser, iPhone, Google Android and Nokia S60 browser.

Throughout the years Digia has utilized Qt across various different domains including desktop, embedded and mobile. Along the way Digia has gained significant skills in Qt and Qt Extended with more than 120 SW engineers experienced in working with Qt. Digia is Qt Software Premium Business partner and licensee, as well as Training partner providing several different training tracks for Qt.