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Nokia’s Series 40 6th Edition was announced back in June and today the Finnish giant released an SDK for the platform. Let’s quickly sum up what’s new in the latest version of Nokia’s feature phone platform:
- Full fledged Webkit-based browser, which until now was available exclusively for the Symbian S60 smartphones
- Adobe Flash Lite 3.0 support (Flash streaming video!)
- Java-based location API (JSR-179) for navigation and location-aware services
As for the SDK itself, it provides Java class libraries, APIs (including the Nokia UI API), relevant documentation and a device emulator for testing Java, Flash Lite and browser content. It’s available immediately from Forum Nokia’s website.
Commenting on the announcement, Forum Nokia’s Tom Libretto said: “Nokia is very pleased to release our Series 40 6th Edition SDK, enabling developers to create a broad range of exciting new software and services focused on the dynamic mobile consumer market worldwide. This latest SDK helps third-party developers to build richer multimedia applications and deliver advanced mobile services to the broad base of mobile subscribers served by Nokia Series 40 high-volume devices around the world.”
For the record, the first Nokia device that used the Series 40 6th Edition is the 7510 Supernova, which was announced alongside other phones from Supernova series. The other device that relies on Nokia’s latest feature phone platform is the newly unveiled Nokia 6260 slide.
Full release is available from here.
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Dusan Belic
Dusan has been using smartphones since their introduction and is now following the latest trends in the industry. The "convergence" is what he's most excited about, and writing about it is the next logical thing to do. He thinks that using a smartphone is what everyone who cares about their time should do. In addition to his interests in mobile phones, Dusan also loves to experiment with the latest web and mobile 2.0 services. The idea of accessing and managing your information from any device no matter where you are simply amazes him. Whether it's an online to-do list, note taking service or a video sharing social network, he's there to try it out. He admits though, he's still searching for the ultimate web-based organizational tool, which "sings" perfectly with the mobile PIM application. Dusan used to run SymbianWatch.com which later became part of IntoMobile. He lives in Serbia, South-East Europe, from where he edits the site on a daily basis.
