NetFront™ Brower Automotive Profile

Internet Browser for Car Navigation

NetFront Browser Automotive Profile is a suite of communications software modules built around NetFront browser, ACCESS’ globally popular Internet browser and the leading browser in the embedded browser market. NetFront Browser Automotive Profile includes state-of-the-art features that anticipate the future of Internet-enabled automobile navigation as standard. NetFront Browser Automotive Profile is equipped with location information-related functions that conform to the Mobile Web specification and POIX (Point Of Interest exchange) language specification.

Basic Functions

• Portable to various CPUs and OS platforms
• Flexible UI customization
• Delivers high performance even when memory and CPU resources are constrained
• HTML3.2 + frames
• JavaScript
• Cookies
• Displays GIF, JPEG, and X-BMP images, histories and bookmarks

Additional Features Unique to NetFront Browser Automotive Profile

• Compatible with Mobile Web^*1 Ver.1.0
  Compatible with HTML written according to Mobile Web specifications
  Sample mailer software supports location data attachments
  Sample automatic authentication function provided for service log-on
• Supports POIX^*2 Ver.2.0
  Library for reading POIX files provided
  Sample mailer software allows POIX transmission/reception
• Supports i-mode Functions
  Supports i-mode-compatible HTML Ver.2.0
  Supports i-mode-compatible location data HTML
  Supports i-mode-compatible location data mailing function

^*1 Internet connection specifications for mobile terminals (car navigation, PDAs) drawn up by the MobileWeb Consortium.
^*2 Point Of Interest eXchange language. Prescribed by MOSTEC (MObile information Standard TEchnical Committee), this language is used for describing location information to allow exchanges of location-related data over the Internet.

NetFront Browser Automotive Profile Module Configuration

NetFront Browser Automotive Profile

NetFront Browser Automotive Profile supports email and car navigation applications and is optimized for in-vehicle applications as well as location-based services. NetFront Browser Automotive Profile features a flexible architecture and supports an extensive set of plug-ins, rich content and navigation applications as well as next-generation automotive telematics services. JV-Lite™2 for CDC compatible devices is available as an option.