The S60 browser is no more Safari than IE is Firefox.
Yes, it uses Apple's WebKit (formerly KHTML) for rendering. IE uses code inherited from NCSA Mosaic, as does (to a lesser degree) Firefox. And Apache ("a patchy" web server) for that matter.
They probably based their assertion on the "User-Agent" string; my N95 sends the following "User-Agent:" header:
Mozilla/5.0 (SymbianOS/9.2; U; Series60/3.1 Nokia N95_8GB-3/20.2.005 Profile/MIDP-2.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.1 ) AppleWebKit/413 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/413
Such user agent strings are notoriously misleading for many reasons. (For one, various statistics about phone data plan usage tend to count access from these S60 browsers as iPhone use...). This browser, though, is neither Mozilla, Konqueror (as KHTML would indicate), or Safari.
It would also seem that Samsung might have another issue with calling this Safari, since Safari is a trademark owned by Apple.
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The S60 browser is no more Safari than IE is Firefox.
Yes, it uses Apple's WebKit (formerly KHTML) for rendering. IE uses code inherited from NCSA Mosaic, as does (to a lesser degree) Firefox. And Apache ("a patchy" web server) for that matter.
They probably based their assertion on the "User-Agent" string; my N95 sends the following "User-Agent:" header:
Mozilla/5.0 (SymbianOS/9.2; U; Series60/3.1 Nokia N95_8GB-3/20.2.005 Profile/MIDP-2.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.1 ) AppleWebKit/413 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/413
Such user agent strings are notoriously misleading for many reasons. (For one, various statistics about phone data plan usage tend to count access from these S60 browsers as iPhone use...). This browser, though, is neither Mozilla, Konqueror (as KHTML would indicate), or Safari.
It would also seem that Samsung might have another issue with calling this Safari, since Safari is a trademark owned by Apple.