As for today we all witnessed the release of Symbian S60 5th Edition with the Official Launch Of Nokia 5800 Xpress Music. Yes, finally Nokia have managed and pulled it to the limits to bring us the likes of Touch interface with WideScreen and Music with surpass media capabilites. With the advent of the 5th Edition of the S60 Platform we see more advanced features come to life. The S60 Blog will focus both on the S60 5th Edition Symian OS and The Nokia Tube aka oficially the 5800 XpressMusic.

The 5800 XpressMusic as the name suggests is a device for Music Lovers. Well, it caters to the much likes of the iPhone and iPod touch clientage and sure is much more than that in the sense that it is Symbian S60, which mean more Web, Email, Chat, Videos, Ovi, Geo tagging ect. I’m sure it beats the iPhone Out Dead. Kudos to 5th Edition S60.

Key features in the new device are an amazing all touch input with multiple touch sensors that make navigation fast and accurate. The story not only ends here but touch input is equally backed by special tool bars making user experiences enhanced and easy to access browser and internet application options.

Accelerometer technology has been fully used to make owning 5800 more fun. For example, to silence the phone ringing is just by simple turning the phone upside down. The sensor framework in S60 5th Edition provides easy integration for wide range of sensors into vendor’s devices, and enables them and developers to take advantage of sensor data to create new exiting and intuitive applications and features.Now thats Open Source

S60 5th Edition’s new features continue to provide a complete solution for multimedia experiences. New image and video editors in the S60 5th Edition make it simple to capture and edit pictures and videos directly on the device, before sharing them with others. Users can for example decrease red eye, crop image highlights, adjust image quality or add text and graphics to pictures. With the video editor, users can quickly cut and merge videos and sound directly on the device. Support for large, high resolution displays makes it possible for users to better enjoy widescreen multimedia and these features.

The implementation of the S60 Web Runtime in S60 5th Edition adds support for S60 Platform Services, which enables creation of personal and context aware Web widgets. Platform Services gives these Web standards based applications access to numerous applications and features of the S60 platform, such as calendar, contacts, GPS, messaging, audio, and video. Widgets can also mash-up information from the Internet together with selected information from the user’s mobile device. These Platform Services are easily accessible to Web content developers and service providers via new JavaScript and Adobe Flash Actionscript extensions. All of these capabilities continue to provide the user with the most control over security and their own private data.

To lower the barrier to entry for new innovation, S60 5th Edition is also expanding its support for open source technologies through integrated support for Open C++. This support brings the Standard Template Library and other popular platform-independent C++ libraries to the S60 platform, extending the Open C offering. Together, Open C and Open C++ create opportunities for developers to utilize existing skills and code from other platforms in their S60 development projects, including open source components that run today on Linux and other open platforms.

Thus a truley amazing experience!