Which s60 Are You?
Sometimes, mobile applications have different versions categorized for different symbian series. Some got confused on which their mobile phone belong and trying different application version that will work. Does it have to be always a ”trial and error”?
The S60 Platform (formerly Series 60 User Interface) is a software platform for mobile phones that uses Symbian OS. S60 is currently amongst the leading smartphone platforms in the world.
These are a few common features in S60:
- Devices’ display resolution is originally 176×208. Since 2nd Edition Feature Pack 3, S60 supports multiple resolutions, i.e. Basic (176×208), QVGA (240×320) and Double (352×416). Nokia N90 is the first S60 device that supports higher resolution (352×416). Some devices, however, have non-standard resolutions, like the Siemens SX1, with 176×220. Nokia 5500 has a 208×208 screen resolution.
- It supports Java (J2ME MIDP 2.0 commonly, but varies from phone to phone.) applications and Symbian C++ applications.
- Certain buttons are standardized, such as left and right select, Menu, Clear, and Input Settings.
There have been three releases of S60: “Series 60″, “Series 60 Second Edition” and “Series 60 3rd Edition”.
- S60 First Edition:
Nokia N-Gage, N-Gage QD, 3650, 3660, 7650*, 3260, 3600, Siemens SX1
- S60 Second Edition:
Nokia 6600, 6620, 7610, 6260, 6630, 6670, 3230, 6680, 6681, 6682, N90, N70, N72
Lenovo P930
Panasonic X700, Panasonic X800
Samsung SGH Z600, Samsung SGH D730, Samsung SGH D720
- S60 Third Edition:
LG KS10
Nokia E51, N95 8gb, N81, N81 8gb, 6121, 6120, 5700, N77, E90, E61i, E65, 6110 Navigator, N93i, N76, 6290, N75, N95, E62, E50, 5500 Sport, N73, N93, N92, N71, N80, E70, E61, E60, 3250, N91
Samsung SGH-i560, SGH-i550, SGH-i450, SGH-i400, SGH-i520
*no memory card slot
