Price barrier to a good mobile web experience is falling

This weekend while idly browsing around some phone stores in Dublin, I noticed that you can now get a Nokia 6120 for about €170 from a couple of different Irish operators with a prepaid contract. This is the lowest price I've seen for a new S60 phone without a contract. It's not short on features either: HSDPA, 2 cameras (1 of which is 2 mega pixel), video calling, nice screen etc. Most importantly though, this device has the most recent S60 OS on it, which means it has the WebKit browser. It's nice to see the reach of this browser extending down to cheaper devices and making a good mobile web experience more commonplace. Yes, I know that Opera Mini is free, but for many people the requisite install step is a deal breaker — having to find it and install it means it simply won't happen.