Samsung Insists on Safari

Samsung is still insisting that it can call the L870's web browser Safari, according to a Samsung spokesperson contacted by Phone Arena. While the cellphone is now believed to just have a standard version of the Nokia Mini Map browser, which shares much of Safari's WebKit rendering engine, a Samsung media official continues to refer to the phone's web app as a Symbian Series S60 version of the "Safari browser" and equates it to the Nokia software. Press materials also continue to mention Safari.

It's currently unclear as to whether or not Samsung at large is aware of the discrepancy. The decision to capitalize on the Safari name potentially violates an Apple trademark on the Safari name in software; Apple first filed for the trademark on January 7th, 2003 and so staked an early claim to the title well before the development of WebKit for non-Apple browsers used by Nokia and other companies.

Multiple inconsistencies also apply to the description of the phone itself, reporting an LCD with either 256,000 or 16 million colors along with different size measurements.

By Electronista Staff