At this week’s Symbian Smartphone Show in London, UK,  Nokia introduced a touch user interface for the Series 60 on Symbian OS. The S60 touch UI offers developers the opportunity to create applications and content that use a variety of input methods, including touch screens with traditional keypads, touch screens with full messaging keyboards, and touch screens with finger or stylus input. All existing S60 3rd Edition applications will run on touch-enabled devices without modification. New touch UI comes with support for tactile feedback, which means that there is a some kind of pulse (physical feedback) when the user taps on the screen. This improve the user experiencebetter with ability to perceive  the device’s response.

Also, Nokia soon plans to offer tools that will help developers optimize the touch experience of their S60 applications and content.

When software giant Oracle Corporation acquired Sleepycat Software last year, company officials knew they were also gaining a product — Sleepycat’s Berkeley DB — that would be perfect for mobile devices running Symbian OS. But Oracle developers knew that porting Berkeley DB’s thousands of lines of C code to a new OS could be a challenge. The solution came from Nokia’s Open C plug-in for the S60 3rd Edition SDK. By providing a standard interface with pthreads and key POSIX functions, the Nokia kit saved Oracle about one-third of porting development effort. In fact, thanks to Nokia’s Open C plug-in, Oracle only needed to redesign fewer than 1,000 lines of code, and the entire porting process took only 10 man-days. The result: Berkeley DB’s simple key-value structure can now be used for a wide range of S60 applications, such as a message store for SMS, MMS, and mails; a contact or calendar database; and a multimedia store.
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Mobile devices equipped with full featured Web browsers have already become an undivided part of the Internet World. Now Nokia has pioneered the next Internet revolution by creating a Mobile Web server for Series 60 phones. This application makes it easy to create content and services for a mobile Web site, or mobsite. Read more … »

Just a small tip:
to listen to radio in your midlet , use following code example:

Player player = Manager.createPlayer(“capture://radio?f=100.1&st=stereo”);
// This will tune to 100.1 FM frequency in stereo mode

Developers will soon be able to develop applications that comply with the Mobile Operational Management JSR 232 standard (OSGi) and use SNAP Mobile in less-than-optimum networks, according to two announcements made by Nokia at JavaOne 2007.

Nokia is collaborating with Sprint to develop the JSR 232 Mobile Operational Management specification. Sprint says it will use OSGi technology in advanced 3G environments and consider the technology for future 4G environments. Separately, developers can expect more robust handling of networks that have less-than-optimum performance from the forthcoming SNAP Mobile SDK 1.4. The release is scheduled for the second quarter. The SNAP Mobile SDK is a suite of free developer tools, documentation, and sample code for creating connected Java mobile games that run on the SNAP Mobile platform; this latest update is backward-compatible with previous SDK releases.

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