Nokia Series 60
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Nokia Series 60 is a platform for mobile phones that use Symbian OS. It is developed primarily by Nokia.
Series 60 consists of a suite of libraries and standard applications, such as telephony, PIM tools and multimedia players. It is intended to power fully-featured modern phones with large colour screens, which are commonly known as smartphones. Series 60 is currently amongst the leading smartphone platforms in the world. It is licensed by some of the foremost mobile phone manufacturers in the world including Siemens, Samsung, Panasonic, Sendo and Nokia.
The Series 60 Platform is a multivendor standard for smartphones that supports application development in Java™ MIDP, C++, and Python (http://www.forum.nokia.com/main/0,,034-821,00.html). An important feature of Series 60 phones is that they allow new applications to be installed after purchase.
These are a few common features in Series 60:
- Devices' display resolution is 176 x 208 in current devices. (2nd Edition Feature Pack 3 brings support for larger resolutions)
- It supports Java (J2ME/MIDP 1.0) + applications and Symbian C++ applications.
- It is designed to be easy and fast to use.
- It provides versatile and powerful application framework.
Currently (as of 2005) there are several different versions of the Series 60 platform in the market included in the following devices:
Series 60 Version 0.9, based on Symbian OS 6.1
- Nokia 7650 (development name Calypso)
Series 60 1st Edition (Version 1.2), based on Symbian OS 6.1
- Nokia 3620 (GSM 850/1900 successor of the 3650)
- Nokia 3650
- Nokia 3660 (GSM 900/1800/1900 successor of the 3650)
- Nokia N-Gage and N-Gage QD
- Samsung SGH-D700
- Sendo X
- Sendo X2 (http://www.symbiancentral.com/content/view/45/0/)
- Siemens SX1
Series 60 2nd Edition (Version 2.0), based on Symbian OS 7.0s
- Contains new features like J2ME/MIDP 2.0 support and themes
- Nokia 6600 (development name Calimero)
- Panasonic X700
- Samsung SGH-D710
Series 60 2nd Edition Feature Pack 1 (Version 2.1), based on Symbian OS 7.0s
- Nokia 6620
- Nokia 7610 (development name Catalina)
- Nokia 6260 (development name Lightning)
- Nokia 6670 (development name Lara)
- Nokia 3230
Series 60 2nd Edition Feature Pack 2 (Version 2.6), based on Symbian OS version 8.0a
- Symbian 8.x has support for WCDMA (GSM 3G) and cdma2000 networks.
- Nokia 6630 (development name Charlie)
- Nokia 6638
- Nokia 6680
- Nokia 6681
- Nokia 6682
Series 60 2nd Edition Feature Pack 3 (Version 2.8), based on Symbian OS version 8.1a
Series 60 3rd Edition (Version 3.0), based on Symbian OS version 9.1