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S60 Location Technologies

S60 5th Edition
– creating mobile location-aware solutions has never been easier

If you know where you are, mobility becomes much more powerful and useful in everyday life. For S60, making the handset, mobile application and user experience location-aware has been a long-term commitment.

Native, position-technology agnostic APIs were introduced as far back as S60 2nd Edition. More recently, S60 3rd Edition introduced Landmarks!, which is an open format point-of-interest creation, management and sharing system. S60 3rd Edition also included support for JSR-179, which enables Java applications to access landmarks and other location capabilities.

Now S60 5th Edition improves the use of location capabilities even further by introducing S60 Platform Services, which enables web widgets and Flash Lite applications to access location information. Only a few lines of Flash Lite ActionScript or JavaScript are required to access location information, demonstrating unprecedented simplicity in development of mobile Location Based Services.