Extended widget offering and a new S60 device

Early this morning in the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco S60 announced extended capabilities of our Web Run-Time offering allowing creation of personal and context aware widgets. Widgets will be able to access S60’s numerous applications and services securely, including the calendar, contacts, messaging, audio, video, images, GPS, and camera, via JavaScript APIs.

This enables, for example, a weather widget can access the user’s current location via the phone’s built-in GPS to provide immediate local weather data. Or a flight tracker widget can easily fetch a travel itinerary from an airline’s website, save it to the phone’s calendar application, and set a reminder. A few hours prior to departure, the widget will automatically check the flight’s status by retrieving the flight details from the calendar.

Read the more from the press release.

Yesterday Nokia launched yet another new S60 device, the Nokia 5320 XpressMusic. The device is S60 3rd edition Feature Pack 2 device and comes with features such as dedicated XpressMusic keys, a 3.5mm audio jack, up to 24 hours of playback time, an audio chip for hi-fi sound quality, extendable memory up to 8GB, HS-USB for fast music transfer and HSDPA for fast access to data. In addition the innovative new voice-controlled Say and Play feature will allow you to merely say the name of a favorite artist or song to automatically play it. We’ll see the Nokia 5320 XpressMusic shipping in the third quarter of 2008 with an estimated retail price of 220 EUR before taxes and subsidies. Find out more from www.s60.com .