S60 is a smartphone platform developed and licensed by Nokia to foremost mobile phone manufacturers like Nokia business units, Samsung, Lenovo and LG.

S60 provides a consistent, customizable and personalizable UI, extensibility and personalization, multi-runtime environment with extensive suite of smartphone applications, platform security and richest set of standards based platform enablers enabling differentiation capabilities for licensees to design and target their S60 based smartphones to different segments.

S60 also includes Advanced Device Management features that enable cost-effective full life cycle management of S60 based devices. The features includes:

• Configuration management
• Application management
• Firmware Update
• Remote Customization
• Device Control e.g. remote lock and wipe
  

Worldwide converged devices market shares 1Q2007** 

• S60 market share among converged devices is over 50% **
• In total 58 devices introduced to the market, sold by the great majority (200+) of operators worldwide *
• Over 100 million S60 based devices cumulatively shipped by S60 licensees (April 2007) *
• Nokia expects the smartphone market to exceed 250 million units in 2008 *

*   Nokia, Apr 2007

** Canalys estimates, Worldwide smart mobile devices, Apr 2007

  See the full range of S60 based devices at the S60 website.

Advanced Device Management in S60

To provide even more powerful device management, new Advanced Device Management has been developed for S60 3rd Edition FP1. Based on the standard OMA, the protocols can be extended by management objects that provide application and product specific extensions without additional implementation work in the OMA protocol stack itself.

One of the exciting new features of the Advanced Device Management for S60 is its support for multiple separate management servers, with different privileges to configure different settings on the mobile device in a controlled way. This is needed because the parties that manage mobile devices might have overlapping and even conflicting goals.

The server-side solution is based on the multiple simultaneous servers' model. The device management capability can be provided by stand-alone products or be bundled and hidden in single application management or network/multi-application management solutions. These can range from a ten-device management solution to solutions that can handle tens of thousands of devices in a corporate environment and millions of devices in an operator environment. Due to the open environment, the servers can be easily developed by 3rd party server vendors. All the specifications are available free of charge at Forum Nokia website.

The S60 Advanced Device Management concept includes the following features:

• Application Management for delivering and managing native Symbian and Java add-on applications over OMA DM
• Customization to install and manage all device UI elements over DM like start-up graphics, screensavers, wallpapers, themes, embedded links, logo on stand-by screen and idle screen shortcuts
• Terminal Management Security for using the device's security features and configurations, such as device lock, wipe, settings enforcement, silent updates, file scan, file delete, reboot etc.

The Advanced Device Management concept is available in S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 1 onwards and has been fully implemented e.g. in the Nokia E-series terminals.

For more information on S60 device management, please visit the S60 website.

For more information on S60, please visit http://www.s60.com