Sprint announced plans to launch the OpenWeb solution from Openwave Systems, promising an enhanced mobile Web browsing experience on nearly all Web-capable phones. The OpenWeb solution offers a more PC-like browsing experience on mobile devices, optimizing the standard layout of a Website and reconstructing it to properly fit the screen of the user's particular phone, regardless of the memory or processing power of the device. Users also can use automatic in-page navigation so they can more easily reach the most important data from the Website.

“Whether clicking through the Sprint portal or typing in a URL, both new and existing customers can use their Sprint phones to search virtually any Website and it will appear quickly and in a format they're used to seeing on their computer screens,” said Kevin Packingham, vice president of wireless product management for Sprint, in a statement. “By working with Openwave, we're making that Internet experience even more customer-friendly and useful by enhancing the ability to translate non-mobile sites onto the mobile phone.”

Available nationwide in the coming weeks, the enhancement will be automatic for customers, requiring no additional actions or downloads.  The carrier said it plans to launch additional mobile Web innovations in 2008 to “further enhance users' experience on their mobile device.”

Sprint also said it has employed an open Internet approach since first launching the Wireless Web on its phones in 2001.