The S60 Platform

A couple weeks ago I attended a session on S60 by Oren Levine, Senior Product Marketing Manager, s60 Platform - Mobile Software Sales and Marketing, Nokia

Here are a couple points he touched on...

S60 on Symbian:

• On over 150 million devices
• Shipped by Nokia, Samsung, Lenovo, and LG
• Over 80 models of s60 phones worldwide
• Open platform - allows handset vendors and developers to easily build and program phones.

Usability:

• Over 80% of S60 users used the internet browser
• 47% use the device as a portable music player
• Users spend less than 50% of their time in calls or messaging

Web features:

• Widgets using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, AJAX
• Combine web based serves with personal context and data
• Create essential, exciting, personal services
• Access platform services through JavaScript and ActionScript

Media Features:

• TV, Radio, Music, Video
• Stream, download, broadcast
• Any format, any media

Calling all innovators - Forum.NOKIA - Calling All Innovators

Nokia buys Symbian - 4th q 2008

S60 & Symbian OS Open Source

• S60 and Symbian OS with UiQ and MOAP(S) moving to open source
• Non-profit open
• Membership is open to all
• Source code available for free
• Committed to move full platform
• Tools and resources available for free
• Wide offering of development environment

So does this mean Nokia wants to compete with google's open source alliance?