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Filed under: Apple

Despite AT&T’s bes. attempts at completely failing its free WiFi promises eternally, iPhone owners can finally fire up Mobile Safari in their local Starbucks, or, um, that one other place we heard about with AT&T WiFi, and get browsing. Of course, that’s not to say the service won’t crash horribly in the next 10 minutes, but at least AT&T stuck by its word, and can at this time move on to more pressing issues.

Update: Yeah, turns out this isn’t true, and AT&T has pulled the page. Free WiFi? That’s just silly.

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Filed under: Handsets, Samsung, Symbian, GSM, HSDPA, UMTS

Yup, you read that right. We’re not talking about just any Webkit-based browser, Samsung’s long-rumored L870 slider features Apple’s Webkit-based, Mobile Safari browser. A first outside of the iPhone. The 13.5-mm thin phone pumps Symbian v9.3 and S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 2 at its core with a 3 megapixel camera, 2.4-inch QVGA display, FM radio, Stereo Bluetooth, and microSD expansion. Unfortunately, this pup is tri-band GSM with single-band UMTS/HSDPA 3.6Mbps support so it’ll be heading to europ. around the August time frame.

Update: Full press release available after the break.

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Filed under: Software, Apple, OS X

A close examination of the descriptions of Apple’s 2008 WWDC sessions revealed at least one iPhone gem, buried in the appropriately-named “Enhancing Your iPhone Web Application with CSS Transforms and Animations” overview: Safari’s getting a little bit of an update. With firmware 2.0 baking to a delightfully golden brown right at this time in preparation for a June release, of course, it only stands to reason that the iPhone’s Safari implementation would get retooled a bit to pull in a more recent Webkit build and stay somewhat in sync with the headway Apple’s browser has made on the desktop, and we at this time know that CSS transforms and animations will be supported as a part of that. What does that mean, precisely? In short, the feature allows web page elements to be twirled, zoomed, and skewed, making for some pretty eye-popping (or watering) effects. It’s all plan to be accelerated by the iPhone’s hardware, too, meaning that the next ultra-annoying ad for some sketchy product that you view on your iPhone should really fly.

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