The S60 Platform (formerly Series 60 Platform) is a platform for mobile phones that uses Symbian OS. It is developed primarily by Nokia and licensed by them to other manufacturers including Lenovo, Panasonic, Samsung, Siemens and Sendo.

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. S60 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, Lenovo, Samsung, Sendo and Nokia.

The S60 Platform 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 and the Sendo X, with 176x220. Nokia 5500 has a 208x208 screen resolution.
• 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.

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).

See also

• S60 Platform and Symbian OS
• List of Nokia products
• Microbrowser
• Mobile Development
• Multiplayer Mobile games

External links

• S60 is managed by Nokia and includes a list of S60 products
• Forum Nokia - S60 developer site
• Nokia's list of S60 devices

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