Editing S60 (software platform) (section)

{{short description|Smartphone software platform}}
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{{Infobox OS
| name = S60
| logo = S60 logo.png
| developer = [[Nokia]]
| working state = Discontinued
| latest release version = 
| marketing target = Smartphones
| influenced by = Pearl
| succeeded by = Symbian^3 (in name)
| support status = Unsupported
}}The '''S60 Platform''', originally named '''Series 60 User Interface''', is a discontinued [[platform (computing)|software platform]] and [[graphical user interface]] for [[Mobile app|smartphones]] that runs on top of the [[Symbian]] operating system. It was created by [[Nokia]] based on the 'Pearl' interface from [[Symbian Ltd.]]<ref>{{cite book|last=Babin|first=Steve|title=Developing Software for Symbian OS: An Introduction to Creating Smartphone Applications in C++|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_hkEUsEkn9MC&pg=PA12|year=2005|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|isbn=978-0-470-02833-9|page=12}}</ref> S60 was introduced at [[COMDEX]] in November 2001 and first shipped with the [[Nokia 7650]] smartphone; the original version was followed by three other major releases.

In 2008 after Nokia bought out Symbian Ltd., the [[Symbian Foundation]] was formed to consolidate all the assets of different Symbian platforms (S60, [[UIQ]], [[MOAP]]), making it [[Open-source software|open source]]. In 2009, based on the code base of S60, the first iteration of the platform since the creation of Symbian Foundation was launched as S60 5th Edition, or Symbian^1, on top of [[Symbian OS#Symbian OS 9.4|Symbian OS 9.4]] as its base. Subsequent iterations dropped the S60 brand and were named solely under the Symbian name.