Today is World IPv6 Day and it is also significant because Nokia has its own investment in this deal, for its users, of course. While other mobile manufacturers will have to do their best to accelerate the process of giving six octet IP addresses to their devices, Nokia can sit quietly as it is working in this system since 2004.

Earlier, when people started to use IPv4, no one could think 4 billion addresses would be expired so soon. But if you are familiar with this problem, most likely you know the conversations about the replacement of IPv4 with IPv6 have been cycling over the net for many years. Now, when this replacement is necessary, Nokia has no reason to worry about, because Nokia has been working with IPv6 standardization and development since the birth of IPv6 in the 90s. Starting from 2004 Nokia brought these standards to its Symbian-based smartphones. As a result, now Nokia’s smartphones have really good support for 3G and GSM.

Well, as Symbian-powered devices work with IPv6-enabled Ovi Browser, all Nokia users can be sure there won’t be any problem with connecting the next billion. The browsing can be performed even if the site uses only IPv4. This can be done due to the proxy server that will automatically translate the data between the two protocols.

As you see IPv6 standards will conquer the whole world soon, and Nokia is already ready for this.

Nokia traditionally used to equip its S40-based models with Opera Mini. However, apparently, this practice is coming to an end. Nokia Beta Labs has demonstrated Ovi Browser for S40 platforms, which has the same functionality as Opera Mini. Browser itself is still a beta-version and in-store applications of Ovi Store are not available. This program uses a special service for the opening page, compresses it and sends the compressed form on the phone.

In fact Ovi Browser is very similar to Opera Mini 4.2, although the Nokia Beta Labs does not report on the use of Opera code in its product. At the moment this browser denies some services and features, however, is not the final version, and therefore arguing that it will receive, and what will not is too early. So far, the browser can download the compressed pages, URL, and auto filling, supports the integration of search engines (Yahoo!, Google, Bing), and has a bookmark. The test version is available on the site browser.ovi.com for phones from the list of compatible devices.

Nokia is planning to enlarge the list of items under OVi-brand. This time it’s not going to be something connected with Maps or Mail but rather a browser itself. This became known due to the download page leak in two different sites- Beta Labs website and Ovi website. Though none of them is active, but still it’s still assumed that they will “get turned on” soon.

However, Nokia does not comment on the development of Ovi Browser. It is possible that Ovi Browser is intended only for Symbian-smartphones, although most likely the Web browser can also run on Maemo and MeeGo platforms. The most optimistic analysts do not rule out that the Finnish company may try to go out and start a development of desktop browsers.