What is S60?

What is S60?

S60 (formerly known as Series 60) is a platform for smart phones. It is originally developed by Nokia and it is based on Symbian OS. Since S60 phone is a smart phone, you can do more than just voice calling and text messaging. It provides more features, such as managing calendar, browsing the Internet, listening to music and even playing games. Currently there are more than 30 S60 devices in the market.

Symbian OS, with its roots in Psion Software's EPOC, is structured like many desktop operating systems with pre-emptive multitasking, multithreading, and memory protection.

Symbian OS's major advantage is the fact that it was built for handheld devices, with limited resources, that may be running for months or years. There is a strong emphasis on conserving memory, using Symbian-specific programming idioms such as descriptors and a cleanup stack. Together with other techniques, these keep memory usage low and memory leaks rare. There are similar techniques for conserving disk space (though the disks on Symbian devices are usually flash memory). Furthermore, all Symbian OS programming is event-based, and the CPU is switched off when applications are not directly dealing with an event. This is achieved through a programming idiom called active objects. Correct use of these techniques helps ensure longer battery life.

Unfortunately, Symbian C++ programming has a steep learning curve, as Symbian requires the use of special techniques such as descriptors and the cleanup stack. This can make even relatively simple programs harder to implement than in other environments. Moreover, it is questionable whether Symbian's techniques e.g. the memory management paradigm are actually so beneficial. It is possible that the techniques, developed for the much more restricted mobile hardware of the 1990s, do cause unnecessary complexity in source code; programmers are required to concentrate on bug-prone low-level routines instead of truly application-specific features. It is difficult, however, to make a move towards a more high-level and modern programming paradigm in Symbian, because the platform is so tightly bound to semi-obsolete thinking models about mobile software development. Symbian OS design faults

All of this makes Symbian OS's flavor of C++[citation needed] very specialised. However, many Symbian OS devices can also be programmed in OPL, Python, Visual Basic, Simkin, and Perl – together with the Java ME and PersonalJava flavors of Java.

Here is the complete list of s60 mobiles : If u find any more member of this category .. plz add here ...


Lenovo P930

LG KS10

Nokia N82

Nokia E51

Nokia N95 8GB

Nokia N81

Nokia N81 8GB

Nokia 6121

Nokia 6120

Nokia 5700

Nokia N77

Nokia E90

Nokia E61i

Nokia E65

Nokia 6110 Navigator

Nokia N93i

Nokia N76

Nokia 6290

Nokia N75

Nokia N95

Nokia E62

Nokia E50

Nokia 5500 Sport

Nokia N73

Nokia N72

Nokia N93

Nokia N92

Nokia N71

Nokia N80

Nokia E70

Nokia E61

Nokia E60

Nokia 3250

Nokia N91

Nokia N70

Nokia N90

Nokia 6682

Nokia 6681

Nokia 6680

Nokia 3230

Nokia 6670

Nokia 6630

Nokia 6260

Nokia N-Gage QD

Nokia 7610

Nokia 6620

Nokia 3660

Nokia 3620

Nokia 6600

Nokia 3600

Nokia N-Gage™

Nokia 3650

Nokia 7650

Panasonic X800

Panasonic X700

Samsung SGH-i560

Samsung SGH-i550

Samsung SGH-i450

Samsung SGH-i400

Samsung SGH-i520

Samsung SGH-Z600

Samsung SGH-D730

Samsung SGH - D720

Siemens SX1

Ask-vinay.... Your description had completed. Symbian using system in the memory or not using access memori. Different with java... Sometime, when we activating a few java app, we get trouble, hard to move... (than??...)

Nashierz Bro... Please clarify ur question.. i will give u da answer after that....

Thanks !!!

Thanx for the info vinay nw ppl knw if the have s60 phones or not

cool.. nice info

vinay there are generations of these phones like s60v1 which includes nokia6600.s60v2 which includes N70,N90,6680 ETC & S60V3 OR OS9.1 which includes...3250,N71,N93 ETC.....

ON S60 V1 &V2 BOTH JAR N SIS FILES WORK....
ONS60V3 JAR N SISX FILES WORK...SIS FILES DONT WORK ON IT N VISE-VERSA