Consumers expect mobile Internet devices to provide a uniform experience, similar to browsing the Web on PCs — in other words, continuous and fluid access to people and information.

Nokia provides the platforms you need to deliver that experience through a range of mobile Web options. Some technologies require no more effort than conventional site design does; others may involve creating tailored applications that deliver a mobile-optimized user experience.

Whatever your development skill set, scope, or requirements, your audience increasingly expects to access your services through mobile devices.

Widgets — you're familiar with them from the desktop. Small, focused Web applications that are easy to install and use. Perfect for the small screen. Nokia has now extended the S60 browser engine to behave as a runtime platform in its own right. Web Runtime (WRT) — which is arriving with selected new devices and as a software update for millions of existing users — is Web technology that can really work for you.

Use your knowledge of standard Web technologies such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript™ to extend your Web services with great-looking widgets.

Quick to develop and easy to distribute, widgets for the S60 platform mean that creating mobile Web applications is a breeze.

Go to WRT resources

• Access to 8 billion-plus pages and enterprise intranets.
• Best-of-breed open-source components, the same as Apple uses in its Safari Web browser.
• Web feeds with basic RSS support.
• Pop-up blocking.

• Innovative combination of page view, zooming, and narrow page layout.

• Higher page-load performance than EDGE, WCDMA, and WLAN.

Go to the Web Browser section

WidSets is an independent Web 2.0 service that automatically multicasts preferred RSS feeds and user-generated content. WidSets users can:

• Find their favorite Web services in the form of mobile widgets.
• Receive content automatically on their mobile devices.
• Easily create their own widgets and share their favorite Web services with others.

Learn to write widgets for WidSets and give access to your Web services to all mobile users with MIDP 2.0-compatible devices (some 500 million Series 40 and S60 devices).

Go to the WidSets developer section

Let's say that people on the move want to use your Web services. Are you ready to serve them? Learn how to create a Web site that will deliver a great experience to mobile users.

To reach the largest mobile Web user base, your services need to work with a wide range of devices and browsers. The markup and specifications have been set out in the XHTML-MP standards from W3C. Forum Nokia has information and base specifications for creating mobile-optimized Web sites, and additional technical guidelines can be found on mtld.mobi which also showcases good design and site examples.

Go to the Lite Browsing section

By integrating the Flash Player with the browser, Nokia offers the only mobile platform for Web designers to fully stretch their creative potential.

Flash Lite from Adobe, with its huge developer base, is one of the most widely used Web runtimes. Flash Lite also has great online data-connection options, now extended with streaming movie playback — making it one of the most exciting delivery platforms for data and services.

Go to the Flash Lite section

Mobile Web Server (MWS) is an application in the mobile device that users can access over the Internet via PC. It enables them to easily manage and use mobile phone functions, without the need for external software. Users can also create Web content on the move, using the blog feature.

With this free and easily installed application, a user can:

Access the mobile device's personal information using a PC's Web browser.
Browse contacts, add calendar entries, and send SMS messages.
Perform tasks on mobile device remotely using a big screen and keyboard.
Share content, images, and calendar data with friends and colleagues.
Control the data — the user decides who gets access.
Take it along — wherever the user goes, the Web server is there too.

MWS is based on open source components, including the HTTP server based on Apache technology, and Python for S60, so it is open for development.