S60 5th Edition Brings Touchscreen Support
Today Nokia announced the first smartphone to use the new S60 5th Edition user interface, the 5800 XpressMusic. This new version of S60 adds quite a few options, not the least of which is support for touchscreen displays. What else is new, and what does it mean to you?
New features that S60v5 supports include, obviously, touchscreen displays, and also the new widescreen resolution. Advanced sensors are also supported, including proximity sensors, accelerometers, and others. The most important thing is that, for the most part, native applications written for S60v3 devices will be compatible with the S60v5 devices, such as the touchscreen 5800 XpressMusic.
However, a new set of tools for developers has been made available today at Forum Nokia, allowing developers to dig into the SDK and create some stunning applications that can directly take advantage of the new features in S60v5.
For consumers, we’ll have to get our hands on the 5800 XpressMusic and other S60v5 devices to really get a taste for the various changes. As of now, aside from the touchscreen and higher resolution displays, it seems that S60v5 offers roughly the same support as S60v3 Feature Pack 1 and 2.
So when are you going to get to play with it? guru/rita/pseudofinn?
so u mean that , themes and apps of s60 3rd edition will work on this tube? wont the resolution get messed up, if i use 3rd edition theme here? btw is the safari updated , is there USB 2.0 and charging via that?
yeah will u get hands on it???
they chose to skip the 4th edition due to supertitious reasons.
4 is a very unlucky number in some asian cultures, which are Nokias very important markets.
the number 4 sounds like death when said in chinese.
I’m pretty sure applications will need to be tweaked, though not necessarily rewritten, to work with v5. Icons will need to be created at a larger resolution and applications that use their own graphics will need to have larger resolution graphics written in. I’d really like to see how this all works first though. We’ll see.
Oct 9th, 2008 at 3:51 pm
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