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Smartphone software platform
"Series 60" redirects here. For other uses, see Series 60 (disambiguation).
The S60 Platform (formerly Series 60 User Interface) was a software platform for smartphones that runs on top of the Symbian operating system. It was created by Nokia based on the 'Pearl' user interface from Symbian Ltd.[1] It was introduced at COMDEX in November and first shipped with the Nokia smartphone. The platform has since seen 5 updated editions. Series 60 was renamed to S60 in November
In , the Symbian Foundation was formed to consolidate all the assets of different Symbian platforms (S60, UIQ, MOAP), making it open source. In , based on the code base of S60, the first iteration of the platform since the creation of Symbian Foundation was launched as S60 5th Edition, or Symbian^1, on top of Symbian OS as its base. Subsequent iterations were named Symbian^2 (Japanese market only) and Symbian^3.
The S60 software was a multivendor standard for smartphones that supports application development in JavaMIDP, C++, Python[2] and Adobe Flash. Its API was called Avkon UI.[3] S60 consists of a suite of libraries and standard applications, such as telephony, personal information manager (PIM) tools, and Helix-based multimedia players. It was intended to power fully featured modern phones with large colour screens, which are commonly known as smartphones.
Originally, the most distinguishing feature of S60 phones was that they allowed users to install new applications after purchase. Unlike a standard desktop platform, however, the built-in apps are rarely upgraded by the vendor beyond bug fixes. New features are only added to phones while they are being developed rather than after public release. Certain buttons are standardized, such as a menu key, a four way joystick or d-pad, left and right soft keys and a clear key.
S60 was mainly used by Nokia but they also licensed it to a few other manufacturers, including Lenovo, LG Electronics, Panasonic, Samsung,[4]Sendo,[5]Siemens Mobile, Sony Ericsson, Solstice and Vertu. Sony Ericsson notably was the main vendor using the competing UIQ Symbian interface.
In addition to the manufacturers the community includes:
There have been four major releases of S "Series 60" (), "Series 60 Second Edition" (), "S60 3rd Edition" () and "S60 5th Edition" (). Each release had an updated version called Feature Pack, sometimes known as relay. Each runs on a different Symbian version.
Many devices are capable of running the S60 software platform with the Symbian OS. Devices ranging from the early Nokia running S60 v on Symbian OS v,[8][9] to the latest Samsung i Omnia HD running S60 v on Symbian OS v[10] In Symbian^3 the version of the revised platform is v
The table lists devices carrying each version of S60 as well as the Symbian OS version on what it is based. Note that new devices since Symbian^3 May be capable of upgrading to later systems, such as Symbian Anna and Symbian Belle. Therefore, you may see a device being listed more than once.
Symbian is now[when?] progressing through a period of organisational change to metamorph into an open source software platform project. As an OS, Symbian OS originally provided no user interface (UI), the visual layer that runs atop an operating system. This was implemented separately. Examples of Symbian UIs are MOAP; Series 60; Series 80; Series 90 and UIQ. This separation of UI from underlying OS has created both flexibility and some confusion in the market place. The Nokia purchase of Symbian was brokered with the involvement of the other UI developers and all major user interface layers have been (or have been pledged to be) donated to the open source foundation who will independently own the Symbian operating system. The new Symbian Foundation has announced its intent to unify different Symbian UIs into a single UI based on the S60 platform. (Announcements made in March indicated this would be the S60 5th edition with feature pack 1).
On 12 April , Nokia announced Symbian Anna as a software update to the Symbian^3 release. Three new devices (, X7 and E6) were announced which will have Symbian Anna pre-installed. Symbian Anna will be available as a Software Update for Symbian^3 based devices as well. Most Significant updates that come with "Anna" are
On 24 August , Nokia announced Symbian Belle (later renamed Nokia Belle)[15] as a software update to the Symbian Anna release. Three new devices (, and ) [Nokia is cancelled and is replaced with Nokia ] were announced which will have Symbian Belle pre-installed. Symbian Belle was available as a Software Update for Symbian Anna-based devices as well. Most Significant updates that came with "Belle" were
In November , Nokia announced the Carla and Donna updates. Carla was expected to be released in late or early and feature a new web browser, new widgets, new NFC capabilities and Dolby Surround audio enhancement. Donna was going to be a dual-core processor exclusive, and was planned to be released late or early [16] In May a Nokia executive claimed that Carla and Donna were cancelled, and that Nokia would instead only release Belle Feature Pack 2 later in , lacking many of the new features that were planned for Carla and Donna.[17]
In February , Nokia announced a partnership with Microsoft to adopt Windows Phone 7 as Nokia's primary operating system, leaving further Symbian development in question. Nokia has promised support for Symbian and its newer devices until at least , but no new Symbian devices will be released after Nokia PureView. On 29 April , Nokia announced that it would transfer Symbian activities to Accenture along with 3, employees.
Symbian Belle
Symbian Belle – the facts, the features and the pictures
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