New S60 Edition for
Smarter Phones
With
the introduction of 5th Edition of smartphone software, S60 built on
Symbian OS, mobile devices will get equipped with touch user interfaces
and sensor technologies. Nokia 5800 XpressMusic is said to be the first
S60 5th Edition-based device. Developers can introduce touch UI
functionality in application design. The S60 5th Edition SDK and tools are
available to download via Forum Nokia.
S60
software includes the Web Browser for S60, which supports desktop-quality
browsing with Adobe Flash Lite 3. With the touch-enabled products and S60
5th Edition, the aim is to make Internet browsing more convenient by
allowing scrolling Web pages and interacting directly with Web content by
touching with a finger or the use of keys or stylus.
Sensors
will enable intuitive and smart usability for the key S60 applications.
For example, silence the phone ringing by turning the phone upside down.
The sensor framework in S60 5th Edition provides easy integration for wide
range of sensors into vendor's devices, and enables them and developers to
take advantage of sensor data to create new intuitive applications and
features.
S60 5th
Edition's new features continue to provide a complete solution for
multimedia experiences. New image and video editors in the S60 5th Edition
make it simple to capture and edit pictures and videos directly on the
device, before sharing them with others.
Users can
for example decrease red eye, crop image highlights, adjust image quality
or add text and graphics to pictures. With the video editor, users can cut
and merge videos and sound directly on the device. Support for large, high
resolution displays makes it possible for users to better enjoy widescreen
multimedia and these features.
S60 5th
Edition is also expanding its support for open-source technologies through
integrated support for Open C++. This support brings the Standard Template
Library and other popular platform-independent C++ libraries to the S60
platform, extending the Open C offering. Together, Open C and Open C++
create opportunities for developers to utilize existing skills and code
from other platforms in their S60 development projects, including
open-source components that run on Linux and other open platforms.
As the
global smartphone market is growing, nearly 180 million S60 devices have
already cumulatively been shipped by S60 licensees by the end of June
2008. More than a third of these are fully web-capable S60 3rd Edition
devices.
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