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History - Series 60
There are currently three systems based on Symbian OS: Series 60 from Nokia; UIQ, owned by UIQ Technology, and MOAP, that is used by NTT DoCoMo. Lately Series 80 has also been on this list, but the Finnish manufacturer has terminated this platform once and for all by building its E90 communicator on Series 60 foundations.
The first Series 60 smartphone was Nokia 7650, announced in 2001 November 19. The first model from the manufacturer to have a built-in camera was of large size, but its features made up for this. Its CPU was a 104 MHz ARM9, it had 16 MB ROM and 4 MB RAM, there was 3.6 MB free to use from the latter one. Its display had a resolution of 176 x 208 pixels and was capable of displaying 4096 colors. Although it has been advanced in terms of data transfer too (GPRS class 10, Bluetooth 1.0, IrDA), its specialty was the software’s expandability, as Java applications were really low quality back then, and they could have been used mostly for text entry. Many devices have followed, like Nokia 3650, 3660, N-Gage, Sendo X and Siemens SX1. The common feature of these was that they had expandable memory, and SX1 had a 120 MHz CPU and a 176 x 200 pixel resolution display, of which the system used only 176 x 208, so the top row, 12 pixels in height, was a permanent status bar.
Nokia 7650
The first phone to use Series 60 2nd Edition was the egg-shaped Nokia 6600. The display had 65.536 shades of colors, memory expandability was also available (it had an MMC card), but the processor still had a speed of 104 MHz. It was important for users that version 7.0 supported themes, so the design of the system could have been customized, even if this had its limits. Panasonic X700 and X800 also used this system.
Nokia 6600
These have been followed by 6620, that used Series 60 2nd Edition Feature Pack 1, announced in 2004 January 15. This brought about lots of new services, the most important being: EDGE support, support for cameras with a resolution over 1 MP, possibility of creating new environmental profiles, advanced web browser (HTML 4.01 support, fullscreen view), MP3 and AAC support. The most important was, however, the extended Java feature, called MIDP 2.0. This system has also been used by Nokia 7610, 6260, 6670 and 3230.
Nokia 6620
The first phone to use Feature Pack 2 was 6630, that came in 2004 June 14. On eof the most important features of Symbian 8.0 was that the system could run from a NAND Flash memory, which resulted in more free RAM. This has been the first system to have voice recognition software. The graphical interface has also been more advanced, the new platform had support for OpenGL ES 3D graphics and transparent windows, the list of pre-installed software included Real One player, and the camera’s software has advanced a lot (image sequences, EXIF support). There has been a great leap forward in data transfer too, 3G became supported, the list of Bluetooth profiles included headset and printing (Bluetooth could have been used only for handsfree and data transfer before), and the browser supported file uploading. Three other phones have followed, 6680 had a 220 MHz processor.
Nokia 6630
After a year N90 has been launched, that used Feature Pack 3, and it has been followed by N70 and N72. The most important new feature was support for higher screen resolutions (240 x 320 and 352 x 416 pixels). Meanwhile Series 60 3rd Edition (9.1) has arrived, that used a new architecture, an ARM11 CPU was required to run it. In a few words: real-time kernel, GPS support, possibility of setting backlight from application, Bluetooth 1.2 and SyncML 1.2.
Nokia N90
The first model to be based on 3rd Edition Feature Pack 1 was announced on 2006 September 26, this has been N95. Animated screensaver, video ringtones, more alarm clocks, further developed web browser and location-based services were the most important on the list of new features. There are lots of Nokia and Samsung models using this version of the system until the present day. The latest edition is 3rd Edition Feature Pack 2, 6210 Navigator (2008 February 11), N96, N78 and 6220 Classic are based on this version. It contains the possibility of shorter development cycles, it has a new user interface, transparencies are present, music and videos can be played while they are downloaded, virtual memory is handled in a new way, web Widgets are supported and Flash Lite 3 is also included. So here we are now.
Nokia N95
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