General S60 Third-Party App Thoughts
- Filed under: Event News & Updates, Software Tools
- Date: Apr 18,2008
As you can see, the software landscape for Symbian S60 devices is hardly barren. Yes, there are not nearly the amount of third-party applications available as there are for the Palm OS or Windows Mobile, but most of that is because there is a lot of core functionality present in devices already.
You also have a different paradigm of use — non-touchscreen for the Symbian/S60 folks, and touchscreen for the Symbian/UIQ folks – that forks developers and reduces the number of titles available for both.
Java apps are more prevalent with Symbian, and well done in some cases (Google Maps and Mail Mobile, Opera Mini) whereas native development is stronger on Palm OS and Windows Mobile devices. Java apps have been around a long time, and Nokia’s implementation of Java is very well made. The performance of these apps does not drop off nearly as much as I’ve seen on Windows Mobile and Palm OS devices.
Flash Lite is interesting too. The front end of N-Gage, as well as some of the games, are made with this. The Nokia Web Browser also has been updated to view Flash-enabled websites via Flash Lite in some of the latest devices.
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