NetFront Browser is the most advanced, versatile, and powerful Internet browser available in the mobile market. Specifically designed and optimized to deliver high performance in resource-constrained environments, NetFront Browser supports almost any OS and CPU and offers low power consumption, easy customization, and a broad range of plug-ins. NetFront Browser has been deployed in millions of Internet devices throughout the world including mobile phones, digital TVs, set-top boxes, mobile handhelds, game consoles, automobile telematics systems and many other Internet devices.

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The NetFront Browser Advantage

Optimized for Mobile
NetFront Browser is the optimized browser solution which offers “Full Internet Experience” for an embedded device, especially mobile devices. NetFront Browser is designed especially for embedded devices to overcome restrictions like CPU speed or memory, and offers best performance and extensive features with a compact code size that is ideally suited for mobile devices than the downsized desktop browser solutions. End-user can experience the same rich Internet Services as a desktop on mobile devices.

Flexible Configuration and Easy Portability
NetFront Browser's highly modular and scalable software architecture enables developers to pick and choose only needed components for their target devices. Should more memory savings be required, modules containing code for unneeded functions can be removed and the code base and memory requirements are reduced. Should new markup support be required, it’s easy to add an additional module. NetFront Browser's high portability is also a key contributor to its popularity in the mobile space. The two key NetFront Browser components that enable this portability are:

1. SLIM interface, which encapsulates the dependence to the target platform and provides high portability and tightly integration capability for developers.
2. PWS (Plate Window System)/AWS (Abstract Windows System), the window system API that generalizes and settles the differences in window manipulations from the underlying operating system. In addition, NetFront Browser can incorporate an exhaustive set of low-level libraries including WAVE, ACCESS' own windowing system. This means that NetFront Browser can run on the barest of operating systems. On operating systems that do provide the functionality, such as those found on mobile handhelds, these libraries are simply stripped out so no unnecessary code is deployed.
   
   

Key Benefits

For End-Users
Offers the fastest, rich and intuitive, full-Internet browsing experience and services on mobile devices.

For Device Manufacturers
Provides a modularized architecture, easy integration, extensibility, compact footprint, and reliable and proven solution on all major platforms and operating systems.

For Mobile Operators
Introduces quite an extensive and fully customizable data services platform and consistent end-user experience across multiple device types.

For Contents Providers
Contributes a rich contents rendering platform for embedded device.

Highly Customizable UX and Branding Opportunities

With NetFront Browser's modular architecture, the core browser engine which provides the essential functionalities of Web browser such as networking, content rendering is completely independent from the upper application and user-interface layers. This means that the user-interface and application layer can be easily developed or modified to meet particular requirements or customization. It even enables a developer to create the entirely new application based on the same NetFront Browser Technology as being used in all NetFront Browser products. For device manufactures, ensures a differentiated product with minimal engineering effort. For the mobile operator, this means that a monolithic, consistent application user interface can be defined across all types of device. End-users will experience almost identical functionality not only about powerful browsing ability but also about usability regardless of the device used. NetFront Browser supports you to make an attractive device with full Internet experiences.

Features

Adapted for "Web 2.0"
Web 2.0 is the next-generation of the Web and also widely recognized as a next-generation service framework, based on the view of the Web as a platform. Consumers today can experience many innovative Internet services collectively called "Web 2.0 services" which feature rich user-interfaces delivered through the Web browser on their desktop PCs. Web 2.0 services promise to become very popular throughout the mobile world. However, considering the restricted characteristics of mobile devices, it will be difficult to deliver a PC-like Web 2.0 experience as is. In order to fully leverage the potential of Web 2.0 on mobile devices, it will be necessary to transform the service model and user experience of the PC and adapt it for the mobile market while also overcoming the following two issues: The memory restrictions inherent in mobile devices and limited key input. When considered from this viewpoint, NetFront Browser is the best solution for supporting Web 2.0 services on mobile devices to achieve reasonable performance and usability since its architecture is optimized for mobile devices. NetFront Browser offers the best value for the Web 2.0 mobile ecosystem, including network operators, handset vendors, content providers and end-users.

Google Maps	Myspace.com	Digg	Amazon.co.jp
*These screen captures are from mid-October 2007. *Amazon.co.jp is a trademark of Amazon.com, Inc and its affiliates.

Column Rendering
When viewing content in the previous desktop mode, text often exceeded the screen width, requiring repeated use of the scroll bar. This issue has been resolved, and functionality has been dramatically improved.

Stick Navigation

Smart-Fit Rendering™
Browsing Web sites developed for desktop PCs on mobile devices is a difficult and frustrating experience, so NetFront Browser includes Smart-Fit Rendering technology. Smart-Fit Rendering intelligently adapts standard Web pages to fit the screen width of any mobile device enabling an intuitive and rapid vertical scrolling process, without degrading the quality or usability of the pages being browsed.

Embedded AJAX Support
NetFront Browser provides seamless support for Ajax (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) an open standard Web development technique using XHTML, CSS and JavaScript that enables the creation of highly efficient interactive Web applications. Ajax technology shifts a significant amount of application functionality to the client from the web server, which means that Web pages do not have to reload entirely upon each end-user interaction. Ajax technology dynamically increases a Web application's interactivity, speed, and usability.

RSS Support
RSS is an XML-based format for content distribution that allows service providers to feed news, content, and advertisement directly to the front of the end-user handset, enhancing services personalization and discoverability. NetFront Browser provides a RSS library that enables easier and faster RSS application development within the browser or as stand-alone modules which uses NetFront Browser's RSS technology, ensuring high performance and cognitive flexibility of various RSS format (RSS 0.9, 0.91, 0.92, 1.0, 2.0/Atom 0.3,1.0) widely used.

NetFront Browser Widgets
NetFront Browser Widgets is comprehensive Web application framework based on NetFront Browser technology that supports the creation and use of dynamic Web applications based on open standard Web technologies like HTML, CSS and JavaScript. NetFront Browser Widgets provides both an application framework and an application player. Widget Application Framework offers an environment that can run and manage installed Web applications as a content package with a configuration and description. The framework also provides the functionality to include user interactivity on an application such as a menu, significantly facilitating the development process. Widget Application Player is a highly sophisticated Web browser application that is based on the NetFront Browser core engine. Widget Application Player looks like a Web browser without a UI from the end-user's point of view, yet it enables Web applications to interact with device functions such as battery status and incoming notification. With Widget Application Player, end-users can experience advanced Web applications associated with other applications, including the home screen on their mobile device.

Device Interactivity
NetFront Browser offers remarkable device interactivity as a ECMAScript-driven interface “Direct-Connect” which was introduced by NetFront Browser v3.1 since 2004. In case of DLNA, provides seamless interaction with the DLNA module and the Browser Application. Based on this technology, you can build user-interface of DLNA application by mashing up of HTML, CSS and AJAX etc. and can handle DLNA device information through DLNA Control API in ECMAScript.

SVG Support
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), a W3C recommendation for a modularized language used to describe two dimensional vector and mixed vector/raster graphics in XML, enhances the wireless experience by enabling rich, interactive multimedia functionality. NetFront Browser features support SVGT 1.2. Thanks to the SVGT (Scalable Vector Graphics Tiny) platform's independent approach operators will be able to offer greater handset personalization with user interface (UI) customization to their entire device portfolio.

SMIL Support
The Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL) enables simple authoring of interactive audiovisual presentations. SMIL is typically used for rich multimedia presentations, which integrate streaming audio and video with images, text or any other media type. SMIL is an easy-to-learn HTML-like language, and many SMIL presentations can be written using a simple text-editor.

Improved Navigation and Functionality

Swift Navigation

Scrolling is now ultra smooth.

Swift Navi., Column Rendering, Stick Navi. View at 720×480 screen resolution

Animation Zoom

You can select part of the screen and zoom up quickly and smoothly.

Animation Zoom View at 720×480 screen resolution

User Experience Evolutions

Faster Access Support

[Faster Content Display] It takes less time to display content after "Select URL" (First Draw) is selected. This functionality helps to avoid user frustration.
[Faster Zoom-in/Zoom-out] When browsing PC websites, faster zoom-in/out plays an important role in navigation, and this function has been dramatically improved.
[Enhanced Switching Rendering Mode] Switching content display formats (Rendering Mode) is now much faster.
[Faster Access Service (Bytemobile)] NetFront now features integration with Bytemobile's EBO (Embedded Browser Optimization). Content downloads are now up to four times faster. Full browsing capability has also been improved and Internet browsing is now more convenient than ever before.	View at 720×480 screen resolution