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Sittiphol Phanvilai's Forum Nokia Blog http://blogs.forum.nokia.com/blog/sittiphol-phanvilais-forum-nokia-blog A Forum Nokia Blog neois 2009-11-24T01:18:48Z Series 60 5th Edition SDK 1.0 finally out http://blogs.forum.nokia.com/blog/sittiphol-phanvilais-forum-nokia-blog/2009/03/07/series-60-5th-edition-sdk-1.0-finally-out After a long await, at last Series 60 5th Edition SDK 1.0 is available now. <table cellpadding="24"> <tbody> <tr> <td> <img src="http://blogs.forum.nokia.com/data/blogs/resources/300027/S605thEdv1.jpg" align="left" /> </td> <td valign="top"> Here is the changelog: <ul> <li>The standard three softkeys in the emulator’s keypad-off display.</li> <li>Support for the Chinese, Arabic, and Urdu languages. (Support for the Arabic and Urdu languages is provided by SDK plug-ins.)</li> <li>Start-up progress indicator, which is visible when the emulator is minimised.</li> <li>A number of issues have been resolved and deficiencies removed (see release notes for details).</li> </ul> The package size is much bigger that the previous one. The new one size is 622MB while the v0.9 one size is 499MB only. <a href="http://www.forum.nokia.com/info/sw.nokia.com/id/ec866fab-4b76-49f6-b5a5-af0631419e9c/S60_All_in_One_SDKs.html" target="_blank">Click here to go to download page </a> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> S60 2009-03-07T17:27:19Z neois A First Glance on the Series 60 5th Edition http://blogs.forum.nokia.com/blog/sittiphol-phanvilais-forum-nokia-blog/2008/10/05/a-first-glance-on-the-series-60-5th-edition    First of all, let me say Congratulations! to Series 60 for the big improvement to the new generation, Series 60 5th Edition. Today I will bring you through this great thing. (All images in this blog entry were captured from Series 60 5th Edition SDK Emulator) First Opening   When you launch device for first time, same as earlier version, you have to select region and set date/time.  <img src="http://www.nuuneoi.com/blog/564/001.jpg" border="1" /> <img src="http://www.nuuneoi.com/blog/564/002.jpg" border="1" /> <img src="http://www.nuuneoi.com/blog/564/003.jpg" border="1" />   Welcome to Active Idle screen! <div style="text-align: center"> <img src="http://www.nuuneoi.com/blog/564/004.jpg" border="1" /> </div>   This theme is too bright. I don't like it, so let me change the theme... <div style="text-align: center"> <img src="http://www.nuuneoi.com/blog/564/005.jpg" border="1" /> </div>   OK! Much better! It's nice looking now. ^_^   User Interface   Generally, user interface doesn't change much. It still has Status Pane at the top of screen and Softkey Pane at the bottom of screen but there is one additional pane above the Softkey Pane. It contains some amount of menu icons for the application. <div style="text-align: center"> <img src="http://www.nuuneoi.com/blog/564/006.jpg" border="0" /> </div>   Let see what is the icon in that Menu Pane mean. (I'm not sure that in official it's called Menu Pane or another)   Swirly Button      <img src="http://www.nuuneoi.com/blog/564/007.jpg" border="0" />      Familiar? Yeah, now swirly key has been moved to active idle screen already.   Dial Keypad Button       <img src="http://www.nuuneoi.com/blog/564/008.jpg" border="0" />      Bring up the Dial Keypad.  <img src="http://www.nuuneoi.com/blog/564/010.jpg" border="0" />    Profiles Button       <img src="http://www.nuuneoi.com/blog/564/011.jpg" border="0" />      Open Profiles application.  Basic Applications   Press Swirly Button, the familiar menu screen will appear. <div style="text-align: center"> <img src="http://www.nuuneoi.com/blog/564/014.jpg" border="0" /> </div>   Familiar but much more fantastic, right? ;) Now, Let touch some icon to launch application. The first one I'm going to show you is...Contacts.  <img src="http://www.nuuneoi.com/blog/564/015.jpg" border="0" /> <img src="http://www.nuuneoi.com/blog/564/016.jpg" border="0" />   Now, let create new contact by press the right most button on Menu Pane or Options -> New Task. (In my opinion, it's quite user friendly. It's very similar to S60 3rd Edition. I don't need to learn anything.)  <img src="http://www.nuuneoi.com/blog/564/017.jpg" border="0" /> <img src="http://www.nuuneoi.com/blog/564/018.jpg" border="0" />   Type in the name in First Name box by touch at First Name field.  <img src="http://www.nuuneoi.com/blog/564/019.jpg" border="0" />   Huh?!? What's that. Oh, it's the new input method called Alphanumeric Keyboard. Actually there are 4 input methods in Series 60 5th Edition. I will write about them in the next part.   Umm, it supports so many languages. Very interesting... <div style="text-align: center"> <img src="http://www.nuuneoi.com/blog/564/020.jpg" border="0" /> </div>    Fill inthe First name and Mobile phone number and then press Done. <div style="text-align: center"> <img src="http://www.nuuneoi.com/blog/564/021.jpg" border="0" /> </div>    Result  <img src="http://www.nuuneoi.com/blog/564/022.jpg" border="0" />    Now I try to add my thumbnail to my contact information. <div style="text-align: center"> <img src="http://www.nuuneoi.com/blog/564/023.jpg" border="0" /> </div> <div style="text-align: center"> </div>    Nice UI! I like it.    Next application I'm going to show you is... Calendar. <div style="text-align: center"> <img src="http://www.nuuneoi.com/blog/564/027.jpg" border="0" /> </div>    There is additional area at the lower of screen. This area is used for showing the calendar entries.    Next app is Gallery.  <img src="http://www.nuuneoi.com/blog/564/028.jpg" border="0" /> <img src="http://www.nuuneoi.com/blog/564/029.jpg" border="0" />    You can notice that there are so many major changes of Gallery from the S60 3rd Edition. Every entries have been showed in Grid.    The thing that I like most of Gallery application is you can Edit Image.  <img src="http://www.nuuneoi.com/blog/564/030.jpg" border="0" />    You can add effects as you want. Cool! I like this feature much.  <img src="http://www.nuuneoi.com/blog/564/031.jpg" border="0" /> <img src="http://www.nuuneoi.com/blog/564/032.jpg" border="0" /> <img src="http://www.nuuneoi.com/blog/564/033.jpg" border="0" />    One more thing that is very interesting is wmv file is fully supported.  <img src="http://www.nuuneoi.com/blog/564/034.jpg" border="0" />    Next is Camera. Camera UI come in the landscape view like in S60 3rd Edition.  <img src="http://www.nuuneoi.com/blog/564/035.jpg" border="0" /> <img src="http://www.nuuneoi.com/blog/564/036.jpg" border="0" />    So many effects still be there. <div style="text-align: center"> <img src="http://www.nuuneoi.com/blog/564/037.jpg" border="0" /> </div>    Music Player  <img src="http://www.nuuneoi.com/blog/564/038.jpg" border="0" />     The buttons are so big. It's very user friendly for touch based UI.The interesting thing in Music Player application is you can seek through the file using the timeline at the center of screen.     Last one, Web Browser.  <img src="http://www.nuuneoi.com/blog/564/039.jpg" border="0" /> <img src="http://www.nuuneoi.com/blog/564/040.jpg" border="0" /> <img src="http://www.nuuneoi.com/blog/564/041.jpg" border="0" />     (Sorry that I opened my native language website so the text inside may be unreadable)     I must admit that I'm very impressive on this generation of Web Browser. It can render nearly perfect (or may be perfect already!)  <img src="http://www.nuuneoi.com/blog/564/042.jpg" border="0" />     You can zoom in/out easily using your finger.  <img src="http://www.nuuneoi.com/blog/564/043.jpg" border="0" />     This new generation of Web Browser come with many interesting options and user friendly UI.  <img src="http://www.nuuneoi.com/blog/564/044.jpg" border="0" />     Let see what you get when you change screen mode to Full Screen and Landscape mode. Very great! <div style="text-align: center"> <img src="http://www.nuuneoi.com/blog/564/045.jpg" border="0" /> </div>     This is the most important factor for me to buy Nokia 5800. Big Screen, Perfect Rendering. Wow! Input Methods     This will be the last part I will write about Series 60 5th Edition.The Input Methods. As I said above, there are 4 input methods in Series 60 5th Edition. Let's see one by one. Alphanumeric Keypad  <img src="http://www.nuuneoi.com/blog/564/046.jpg" border="0" />   It's on screen keypad. You are still able to use T9 in this mode.  <img src="http://www.nuuneoi.com/blog/564/047.jpg" border="0" /> Mini QWERTY Keyboard  <img src="http://www.nuuneoi.com/blog/564/048.jpg" border="0" />    It's a small QWERTY on screen keyboard. This is the only mode that you can see the application while typing. While you press any key in keyboard, there will be some popup called Character Preview show above that key. This will help you to type more accurate. <div style="text-align: center"> <img src="http://www.nuuneoi.com/blog/564/049.jpg" border="0" /> </div>    One more thing about this mode is you can move on screen keyboard anywhere you want using the top right button on on screen keyboard. Full screen QWERTY Keyboard    When you select this input method, the screen will change to landscape mode automatically.   <img src="http://www.nuuneoi.com/blog/564/050.jpg" border="0" />    In my opinion, it's the most suitable input mode for touch based UI like Series 60 5th Edition.    By the way, there is Character Preview in this mode too.  <img src="http://www.nuuneoi.com/blog/564/051.jpg" border="0" /> Handwriting    Touch Screen and Handwriting are always come along. ;) <div style="text-align: center"> <img src="http://www.nuuneoi.com/blog/564/052.jpg" border="0" /> </div> Wow, this is quite long article (and quite hard for me to write it with my bad English skill. ^^") Hope these information is useful. :) Good luck, Series 60! - Sittiphol Phanvilai S60 2008-10-05T16:24:07Z neois