The S60 (formerly Series 60 Platform) is a platform for mobile phones that uses Symbian OS. S60 is currently amongst the leading smartphone platforms in the world. It is developed primarily by Nokia and licensed by them to other manufacturers including Lenovo, LG Electronics and Samsung.
S60 consists of a suite of libraries and standard applications, such as telephony, PIM tools, and Helix-enabled multimedia players. It is intended to power fully-featured modern phones with large colour screens, which are commonly known as smartphones.
The S60 software is a multivendor standard for smartphones that supports application development in Java MIDP, C++, and Python. An important feature of S60 phones is that they allow new applications to be installed after purchase.
These are a few common features in S60:
* Devices' display resolution is originally 176x208. Since 2nd Edition Feature Pack 3, S60 supports multiple resolutions, i.e. Basic (176x208), QVGA (240x320) and Double (352x416). Nokia N90 is the first S60 device that supports higher resolution (352x416). Some devices, however, have non-standard resolutions, like the Siemens SX1, with 176x220. Nokia 5500 has a 208x208 screen resolution.
* It supports Java (J2ME MIDP 2.0 etc.) applications and Symbian C++ applications.
* It is designed to be easy and fast to use.
* It provides versatile and powerful application framework.
It is noteworthy that software written for S60 1st edition (S60v1) or 2nd edition (S60v2) is not binary compatible with S60 3rd edition (S60v3), because it uses a new, hardened version of the Symbian OS (v9.1).
List of S60 Phones
Series 60 Version 1.0, 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 3600
- 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 Nokia N-Gage QD
- Sendo X
- 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
- Panasonic X800
Series 60 2nd Edition, Feature Pack 1 (Version 2.1), based on Symbian OS 7.0s
- Nokia 3230 (development name Blitz)
- Nokia 6260 (development name Lightning)
- Nokia 6620 (development name Calvin)
- Nokia 6670 (development name Lara)
- Nokia 7610 (development name Catalina)
- Samsung SGH-D720
- Samsung SGH-D730
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 6680 (development name Milla (from "Milla Magia", the Finnish name for Magica De Spell))
- Nokia 6681 (development name Cho)
- Nokia 6682 (development name Ginny)
Series 60 2nd Edition, Feature Pack 3 (Version 2.8), based on Symbian OS version 8.1a
- Nokia N70 (development name Rolf)
- Nokia N72 (development name Rolf Espresso)
- Nokia N90 (development name Gromit)
S60 3rd Edition (Version 3.0), based on Symbian OS version 9.1
- Nokia 3250 (development name Thunder)
- Nokia 5500 (development name Roadrunner)
- Nokia E50 (development name Siberia)
- Nokia E60 (development name Mars)
- Nokia E61 (development name Smailer)
- Nokia E62
- Nokia E70 (development name Zeus)
- Nokia N71 (development name Isetta)
- Nokia N80 (development name Miro)
- Nokia N91 (development name Nemo)
- Nokia N92 (development name Magnum)
- Nokia N93 (development name Gundam)
- Nokia N73 (development name Scarfe)
- Nokia N75
S60 3rd Edition, Feature Pack 1 (Version 3.1), based on Symbian OS version 9.2
Sources
Wikipedia.com
S60.com
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