The S60 Platform is a software platform for mobile phones that runs on Symbian OS. S60 is currently amongst the leading smartphone platforms in the world.
S60 consists of a multiple libraries and applications, such as telephony, multimedia players and PIM tools, which turns the phone into a more colorful and animated high-tech gadget. There are hundreds of Symbian compatible applications that can be installed, for improving the performance and update the initial operating system according to the latest spectacular versions on the market. The primal feature of 5th Edition is support for high-resolution 640×360 touchscreens and includes Adobe Flash Lite 3.0 with S60-specific ActionScript extensions that give Flash Lite developers access to phone features like contacts, text messaging, sensors and device location information (GPS).
There are so many software applications for Symbian 60 Series Phones that is pretty hard to classify them into one single category. From Java scripts to Internet mobility services and AntiTheft specific software, Symbian seems to have it all!
Your expensive smartphone is going to be protected by Phone Guardian. This program includes GPS, CellID so that you can actually trace the thief even by a simple SMS command for remote handling. Phone Guardian saves permanently all information about the mobile and the SIM that can be transferred to whatever number you want to when the SIM is going to be changed. to the defined numbers when the SIM is changed.
Y-Browser for Series 60 (3rd Edition) 0.89 is an effective file browser within your phone menu and on the Internet. It work just fine with any Symbian OS and does the “browsing job” for you, so you don’t have to look after, check and search and still not be sure that you’re going to find whatever you’d like to. Not only can you copy, edit or delete files simply but with an additional plugin the software suddenly offers further features such as a ZIP manager and text viewer.
The LiveTone Video Player for Symbian OS transforms your Nokia Series 60 mobile device into a full feature, video tone phone. It plays 3GP video on incoming calls, switch between standard and full screen viewing modes, assigns a default video to unknown callers and assign different videos to people in your contact book and can also import videos from your phone gallery.
ToDoManager is J2ME Symbian Free Software allows users to manage and schedule their personal to-do list. You can add, edit and delete to-do notes, manage priorities and deadline with precise alarm settings.
Adobe Flash Player for Symbian based Nokia S60 has made available the outside Adobe Flash Player version 2.1 for Symbian based Nokia S60 2nd and 3rd Edition mobile devices for Free. Adobe Flash Lite provides you with ability to watch Flash movies without any additional software on your phone.
Zenis PhotoRite Viewer is an incredibly fast and powerful image viewer designed for Symbian Series 60 phones. It offers some remarkable retouching and editing options like adjusting the brightness to contrast, distortions, wipes, black-and-white converters and various color filters.
There are also messenger applications especially designed for Symbian OS such as: Skype (for mobile), Trutap, Nimbuzz Mobile, Palringo Vocal IM, Slick, Instango and many others.
