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Internet services extend beyond desktop experiences with context
aware and personal Widgets
 
San Francisco, USA / Espoo, Finland - S60 on Symbian OS, the leading
platform for mobile innovation, today announced extended capabilities
of its Web Run-Time offering allowing creation of personal and
context aware widgets. S60 was the first mobile software platform to
support the creation of widgets and this announcement enables web
developers to create even more compelling and relevant services. In
addition, S60 has expanded choices for open source innovation in
native application development through adding support for several
popular platform-independent C++ libraries.
 
"Our expanded Web Run-Time and widget offering has the potential to
change the economics of mobile software development. Anyone with Web
development experience can now create powerful mobile applications in
days or even hours, drastically reducing the cost of development and
further expanding the application offering," said Matti Vänskä, Vice
President, Mobile Software Sales and Marketing, Nokia. "In addition,
Internet services can be made more powerful and relevant for users by
adding personal data such as the current location of the user,
through GPS. The user experience from such services goes beyond what
the desktop based environments can provide."
 
Mobility has fundamentally changed the way people use the Internet.
It is personal, always with you and always connected. This is
realized by further enhancing the capabilities of widgets -
lightweight, Web standards based applications - as they will be able
to access S60's numerous applications and services, such as calendar,
contacts, GPS, messaging, audio, video. The widgets can also mash-up
information from the Internet together with selected information from
the user's mobile device.
 
S60 enables the development of exciting new services and mash-ups by
combining the power of the Web with power of the S60 platform. For
example, a weather widget can now access the user's current location
via the built-in GPS and in just a moment display the latest weather
forecasts for that location. The flight tracker widget fetches the
user's itinerary from the airline's Web site, saves it to the mobile
device's calendar, and sets a reminder. A few hours prior to the
travel time, the widget automatically checks for the flight status by
getting the flight details from the calendar.
 
"As an early adopter of the S60 Web Run-Time platform, we have found
it easy to migrate and port our popular desktop WeatherBug widget and
extend our live, local weather content to mobile utilizing the latest
Web technologies from Nokia," said Chris Brozenick, VP of Product,
WeatherBug. "We also have been able to leverage the S60 Platform
Services to deliver context-aware weather data along with partner
information, such as local movies and restaurants. This truly enables
us to leverage mobility to the maximum and enhance the overall
usability and user experience of our widget."
 
To support the S60 software strategy and cross platform development,
S60 is also expanding its support for open source innovation through
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 that was announced last
year. 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
targeted at Linux and other platforms.
 
S60 on Symbian OS is the world's leading smartphone software, is
under continuous development by Nokia and licensed by some of the
industry's top mobile device manufacturers. With this announcement,
S60 is reinforces its market leadership, already at more than 53%
(Canalys) share of global converged device shipments. Over 150
million S60 devices have cumulatively been shipped by all S60
licensees, with 75 device models addressing the widest range of
segments and price points launched to date.
 
The S60 press backgrounder can be found from the Nokia Press Bulletin
Board at 

http://pressbulletinboard.nokia.com.
 
About S60
S60 software built on Symbian OS is the world's leading smartphone
software, and is licensed by some of the industry's foremost mobile
device manufacturers. More than 150 million S60 devices had been
shipped by all licensees by January 2008.  The flexibility of the S60
software allows for various hardware designs and software
configurations, as evidenced by the multitude of S60 devices already
available on the market. Through its award-winning user interface,
extensive support for new mobile services and the innovation
potential for partner solutions, the S60 provides an open and
scalable business opportunity for mobile operators and 3rd party
developers. For further information and news about the S60 and the
S60 community, please visit www.s60.com.
 
About Nokia
Nokia is the world leader in mobility, driving the transformation and
growth of the converging Internet and communications industries. We
make a wide range of mobile devices with services and software that
enable people to experience music, navigation, video, television,
imaging, games, business mobility and more. Developing and growing
our offering of consumer Internet services, as well as our enterprise
solutions and software, is a key area of focus. We also provide
equipment, solutions and services for communications networks through
Nokia Siemens Networks.
 
 
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