Tuesday 27 March 2012

S60 editions

There accept been four above releases of S60: "Series 60" (2001), "Series 60 Second Edition" (2003), "S60 3rd Edition" (2005) and "S60 5th Edition" (2008).

S60 1st Edition

In Series 60 1st Edition, the devices' affectation resolution was anchored to 176×208.

S60 2nd Copy

Aswell accepted as S60v2. Starting with 2nd Copy Affection Pack 3 (S60v2.3), Series 60 supports assorted resolutions, i.e. Basic (176×208), and Double (352×416). Nokia N90 was the aboriginal S60 accessory to abutment a college resolution (352×416). Some devices, however, accept non-standard resolutions, like the Siemens SX1, with 176×220. Nokia 5500 Sport has a 208×208 awning resolution, and the Nokia E90 with its advanced 800×352 close display.

S60 3rd Edition

S60v3 uses a accustomed adaptation of Symbian OS (v9.1), which has binding cipher signing. In S60v3, a user may install alone programs that accept a affidavit from a registered developer, unless the user disables that affection or adapt the phone's firmware through third-party hacks that avoid the binding signing restrictions. This makes software accounting for S60 1st Copy or 2nd Copy not binary-compatible with S60v3.

In 2006, a "Designed for S60 Devices" logo affairs for developers was launched. The logotype can be acclimated with befitting programs behindhand of them getting built-in Symbian or Java.

S60 5th Edition

In October 2008, S60 5th Copy was launched. Nokia absitively to move from 3rd Copy anon to 5th Copy "as a affable action to Asian customers",5 because the amount four agency bad luck in some Asian cultures). S60 5th Copy runs on Symbian OS adaptation 9.4.6 The above affection of 5th Copy is abutment for high-resolution 640×360 touchscreens; afore 5th Edition, all S60 accessories had a button-based user interface. S60 5th Copy aswell integrates accepted C/C++ APIs and includes Adobe Flash Lite 3.0 with S60-specific ActionScript extensions that accord Flash Lite developers admission to buzz appearance like contacts, argument messaging, sensors and accessory area advice (GPS).

The S60 5th Copy is the endure copy of S60. Its assets forth with Symbian OS, UIQ and MOAP(S) accept been acclimated as a abject for Symbian, an accessible antecedent operating arrangement getting developed by the Symbian Foundation. The aboriginal copy of Symbian, Symbian^1, uses S60 5th Copy on top of Symbian OS 9.4 as its base.


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