Firefox Mobile for Symbian coming in 2009

If you're a smartphone browsing type, one of the more challenging aspects has long been that there's not a whole lot of choice in the mobile browsing arena, with many users sticking with their default browser; if you wanted choice, there was Opera Mobile, and that's about it.

Mozilla has a team responsible for mobile Firefox development,under the product name Fennec. Why Fennec? Well, the Fennec Fox is a smaller member of the fox family, or in other words, a smaller version of Firefox. This is apparently what passes for punnery in the development community.

Open-source software development initiative Mozilla expects to finalize development of its mobile Firefox browser on the Symbian platform by the middle of next year, according to a blog post by Christian Sejersen, Mozilla's director of mobile engineering.

Earlier this year, the company said it is in informal talks with mobile operators about its free Mobile Firefox browser. At the time, Mozilla said it would release mobile browsers for the Linux and Windows Mobile operating systems.

[via Christian Sejersen ]