S60 consists of a suite of libraries and standard applications, such as telephony, personal information manager (PIM) tools, and Helix-based multimedia players. The S60 software was a multivendor standard for smartphones that supports application development in Java MIDP, C++, Python and Adobe Flash. Subsequent iterations were named Symbian^2 (Japanese market only) and Symbian^3. 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 9.4 as its base. In 2008, the Symbian Foundation was formed to consolidate all the assets of different Symbian platforms (S60, UIQ, MOAP), making it open source.
Series 60 was renamed to S60 in November 2005. The platform has since seen 5 updated editions. It was introduced at COMDEX in November 2001 and first shipped with the Nokia 7650 smartphone. It was created by Nokia based on the 'Pearl' user interface from Symbian Ltd. The S60 Platform (formerly Series 60 User Interface) was a software platform for smartphones that runs on top of the Symbian operating system. Symbian S60v3 (3rd Edition) menu on a Nokia N73.
