Sunnyvale, US, June 7, 2011 ACCESS CO., LTD, a global provider of advanced software technologies to the mobile, beyond-PC and digital TV markets, today announced the availability of NetFront™ Browser NX, a powerful new WebKit-based browser for beyond-PC devices. NetFront Browser NX features one of the world’s lowest and most efficient levels of memory usage on WebKit, a major open-source web browser engine for PCs and other devices.

 

NetFront Browser NX has been selected and customized as the browser engine for the Internet Browser in the Nintendo 3DS game console being sold in Japan, Europe, Australia and the United States. The Internet Browser is available to users upon installing the Nintendo 3DS system update as of today.

 

NetFront Browser NX incorporates a unique technology that achieves efficient memory usage while minimizing the impact of memory shortages, even under exceedingly low memory conditions, ensuring stable system behavior. In addition, ACCESS’ newly developed platform-independent library enhances portability.

 

NetFront Browser NX is optimized for beyond-PC devices like Internet TVs and set-top boxes and provides excellent support for popular, open-standard web services even in environments with limited resources.

 

Other key features of NetFront Browser NX include:

  • Flexible UI customization
    • Unique new API delivers user interfaces suited to a wide range of devices
    • Technically supported UI customization

 

  • OS compatibility
    • Linux®, Android™, Unix, Windows® CE, etc.

 

  • Device compatibility
    • Mobile phones, game consoles, Internet TVs, set-top boxes, multi-purpose machines and automobile infotainment systems