With the announcement of the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, we also got our first view of S60 5th Edition. Surely this brings many cool changes, but the press release did not offer many details, nor did most of the screenshots of the new device. Luckily, over at Forum Nokia, the full SDK is now available for download, along with an emulator, which is basically an online version of the core operating system.
I downloaded the SDK and have been playing around a bit. While it’s not the full version that you’ll see on the 5800 XpressMusic (clearly there are pieces that were created specifically for that device), the S60 5th Edition emulator will give you an idea of what’s changed and what it’s like to play with a fully-functional device. I’ve put together several video walkthroughs of some features of this new S60 5th Edition user interface. If there are particular features that you’d like to see explored, please let me know in the comments.
Tomorrow I’ll be showing off the various input methods and a few neat aspects to those, so be sure to check back!













