Nokia is working with Apple to provide an open-source smart phone browser that utilizes components from the Apple Safari browser. Nokia will provide the new browser to its Series 60 licensees. Companies such as Panasonic and Samsung are included on this list.

Apple has been desperately trying to get into the phone business for quite some time with an that would have many of the features of the iPod. Rumors abound that the wireless carriers are in no way interested in an Apple device that allows users to listen to music that isn’t downloaded over the cellular airwaves and thus charged for by the wireless carriers.

The browser launch may be Apple’s way of gaining legitimacy in the mobile world.

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