Nokia Series 60

Nokia Series 60 is a platform for mobile phones that use Symbian OS. It is developed 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 browsing environments. An important feature of Series 60 phones is that they allow new applications to be installed after purchase.

On 22nd December 2004, Nokia released Python for Series 60 (http://www.forum.nokia.com/main/0,,034-821,00.html).

These are a few common features in Series 60:

Devices display resolution is 176 x 208.
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 2004) there are several different versions of the Series 60 platform in the market included in the following devices:

Series 60 - Version 0.9 with Symbian 6.1

Nokia 7650 (development name Calypso)
 

Series 60 - Version 1.x with Symbian 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 - Version 2.x with Symbian 7.0s

Version 2.0 utilizes new features like J2ME/MIDP 2.0 support and themes
Nokia 6600 (development name Calimero)
Nokia 6620
Nokia 7610 (development name Catalina)
Nokia 6260 (development name Lightning)
Nokia 6670
Panasonic X700
Samsung SGH-D710
 

Series 60 - Version 2.x with Symbian 8.0a

Symbian 8.x has support for WCDMA (GSM 3G) network.
Nokia 3230
Nokia 6630 (development name Charlie)
Nokia 6680
Nokia 6681
Nokia 6682

External Links

• http://www.symbianone.com
• http://www.series60.com
• http://www.symbian.com
• http://www.forum.nokia.com
• http://www.nokia.com
• http://www.samsung.com
• http://www.sendo.com
• http://www.siemens-mobile.com
• http://www.panasonic.com