What does Nokia Series 60, 70, 80, etc. mean!!!

[a_to_z123]

Hullo Guys!

Well I've been listening to Series 60, 70, 80 among the Nokia phones for a long time now but never put a thought to it as to what it means actually.
So this is the question for now, tell me in detail about this thing!
The idea came when I recently bought a new 6670. Its in the 60 Series.

Waiting for your replies.
Zaib.

 

[technoteen]

they mean the various version of symbian operating system

they are incremental with increment in functionality

the comman ones like 6600, ngage and others are symbian 60

the older ones like 6610 6100 7620 are series 40

i havent heard abt series 70 but the series 80 are the new generation smartphones

you may want to visit *www.symbian.com for more information

 

[theraven]

nope
symbian isnt there on all phone series
the series are 40, 60 and 90 if im not mistaken
60 series uses symbian os
40 series are the normal series ...
eg are 6610 and 6100
and 90 series are the communicators afaik
that is 9210i,9500,9300 et al

anyways grudge should be along soon to correct me

 

[bharathbala2003]

also the 60's can b used for 3100,3120 i suppose.. cos i downloaded stuffs from gprs that said 60 series..

 

[drgrudge]

symbian isnt there on all phone series
the series are 40, 60 and 90 if im not mistaken
60 series uses symbian os
40 series are the normal series ...
eg are 6610 and 6100
and 90 series are the communicators afaik
that is 9210i,9500,9300 et al

anyways grudge should be along soon to correct me

No raven, comumunicators are series 80 phones and not series 90. They have series 7 OS. The smart phones include 9500, 9300 etc...

6600 are symbian 60 phones and even they have series 7 OS only.



Difference between series 40 and 60:
1. We can't install much apps in these types of mobiles.
2. series 40 phones have less resolution and hence the interface will seem faster than that of the series 60 phones.

Now series 60, 80 and 90:
Series 60, 80 and 90 are the same with the exception of different UI. From a developers (eg. nokia ) perspective these differentiated developer platforms mean, to any minor changes or extra work. It's like just using windows media player 9 or 10 like that, more major changes but there may be some small changes here and there....

 

[Nemesis]

Difference between series 40 and 60:
1. We can't install much apps in these types of mobiles.
2. series 40 phones have less resolution and hence the interface will seem faster than that of the series 60 phones.

Less resolution? What exactly do you mean by that?

There are tons of apps for Series 40 too mostly games. They can run a lot of games-slightly scaled down versions of N-Gage games.

 

[drgrudge]

^^ lesser resolution than series 60 phones....


And plz see my post clearly, we cant' have "much" or as much as apps as we get for series 60 phones. And as u said, they are mostly java games.

 

[Nemesis]

^^ lesser resolution than series 60 phones....


And plz see my post clearly, we cant' have "much" or as much as apps as we get for series 60 phones. And as u said, they are mostly java games.

I just wanted to know what you meant by lesser reolution

If you meant in terms of screen quality then I'm afraid you are wrong. In fact, Nokia is cramming 208x208 in the 6230i screen even though the physical size is still the same as it was in the 6230. So other than the smartphones like Communicator series/P910i/7710 etc. this is amongst the highest resolution available.

If you meant something else, well, then that's what I wanted to know

 

[Wizard No.2]

nope
symbian isnt there on all phone series
the series are 40, 60 and 90 if im not mistaken
60 series uses symbian os
40 series are the normal series ...
eg are 6610 and 6100

NO

6610 is a Series 60 fone,


And Nokia 3230 also uses Symbian OS

 

[drgrudge]

I just wanted to know what you meant by lesser reolution

128 x128 pixels or 208x208 is not the issue was i taking abt.
Ok, i all wanted to say that if we take some image and keep that as our wallpaper to 6610 and 6600, then the wallpaper would look good in 6600.
The resolution i was taking to tell is the ability of the phone to show finer details, and it may be related to pixels , but the quality of the picture differes in series 40 and 60 phones

6610 is a Series 60 fone

Lol, raven was correct in saying that 6610 is a series 40 phone. He just got confused between 90 and 80 series. As far as i know , there are no series 90 phones by nokia as yet, even 9500,9300 runs on series 80 only.

Nokia 3230 also uses Symbian OS

Who was taking abt 3230? We all know abt it and it's a symbian phone.

 

[theraven]

hehehe
thats a riot
u mean to tell me 6610 runs symbian os ?
show me the phone !!

 

[aadipa]

Well this link should clear some doubts...

Nokia Phone User Interface Series

 

[a_to_z123]

Good Job!

That was indeed some explanation! Well it was a good effort on your part. Thank you all! If there are any more details do put them in.