Nokia announced the new edition of its Series 40 feature phone platform. The new Series 40 5th Edition is a full hardware, software and API architecture, incorporating Java ME technology with support for the latest version of the mobile information device profile (MIDP 2.1), and providing an enhanced UI that enables developers to build richer multimedia applications and services for Nokia mass-market, feature phones.
The Series 40 5th Edition also implements the advanced JSR-248 Mobile Service Architecture specification, as well as the latest version of Adobe’s Flash Lite 2.1, thus providing developers and content creators with more options in their endeavors. In addition, Series 40 5th Edition also enables Bluetooth and IrDA (Infrared) connectivity and synchronization capabilities, and delivers a robust mobile browsing environment through support of a number of mobile browsing standards. The platform’s broad support for SMS text messaging and multi-media messaging (MMS) includes true interoperability for a variety of MMS content formats and classes.
New developer tools, including Series 40 5th Edition SDKs with device emulator, Java class libraries, APIs (including the Nokia UI API) and documentation, will be made available in June 2007 at Forum Nokia. More information about the Series 40 5th Edition is available from here.