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Nokia Series60

Nokia Series 60 is a platform for mobile phones that use Symbian OS.

Series 60 is currently amongst the leading smartphone platform 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.

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 multiple different Series 60 versions in the market which contains 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
• Nokia 3650
• Nokia 3660
• Nokia N-Gage and N-Gage QD
• Samsung SGH-D700
• Sendo X
• Siemens SX1

Series 60 - Version 2.x with Symbian 7.0

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)
• Panasonic X700
• Samsung SGH-D710

Series 60 - Version 2.x with Symbian 8.0

Symbian 8.0 has support for 3G networks.

• Nokia 6630 (development name Charlie)

See also

• Microbrowser