Customers and developers alike are worried about application compatibility at the moment – the painful binary break caused by S60v3 still is fresh in the minds of many. I am currently working on an Interview with Andreas Jakl (of Siemens Mobile fame): in the mean time, why not look at a lovely 26p whitepaper courtesy of Forum Nokia?
The document starts out by looking at the hardware powering the new OS release. For example: did you know that there will be touchscreenless S60v5 handsets?
It then goes on into a “Zen-of-Palmesque” fashion, analyzing scenarios where applications benefit from Touch optimization and on what developers should and should not to in order to create effective S60v5 programs. The final part of the document is a small tour over the new UI widgets – if you wonder about these, the last 5 pages are a must-read for developers and users alike (no code there).
The 3MB PDF file can be downloaded at the URL below – a Forum Nokia account is not needed:
S60 Touch – the whitepaper
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