Nokia Series 60

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Nokia S60 (formerly Series 60) is a platform for mobile phones that use Symbian OS. It is developed primarily by Nokia.

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 [1]. An important feature of S60 phones is that they allow new applications to be installed after purchase.

It is noteworthy that software written for Series 60 1st edition (S60v1) or 2nd edition (S60v2) is not binary compatible with Series 60 3rd edition (S60v3), because it uses a new, hardened version of the Symbian kernel (v9.1).

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.
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 2005) there are several different versions of the S60 platform in the market included in the following devices:

Series 60 Version 0.9, based on Symbian OS 6.1