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Nokia intros three new S60-based applications

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BANGALORE, INDIA: Finland-based mobile handset maker Nokia today announced the availability of three new applications built on the S60 software platform for mobile phones: Quickoffice Version 4.1, Web Server and WaveSecure.

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The Quickoffice Version 4.1 application for Nokia E90 phones makes users PC-independent to create and edit Microsoft Office documents – including Word, Excel and PowerPoint files – from the phone itself.

However, Quickoffice currently does not support open source documents.

Existing E90 users can download Quickoffice Version 4.1 on to their phones, Mahmood Kalantar, director, Mobile Software Sales and Marketing, APAC, Nokia, said at a press conference here.

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The Web Server application remotely gives the user a complete access to the phone via the Internet. The user can access data stored on the phone, access the call logs section of the phone via the Internet to know the details of received and missed calls.

Additionally, the user can access photo gallery, send messages and click photographs remotely.

The Mobile Web Server is currently in beta and is provided free of charge. The user should create a log in ID to avail this application.

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The Web Server application even doubles the phone as surveillance equipment. The camera can be clicked remotely via the Internet, and the clicked photo can be accessed on the computer monitor for remote surveillance.

According to Gautam Dhingra, marketing manager, Mobile Software Sales and Marketing, the Web Server application does not currently support videos.

He said such capability could be built on the S60 platform.

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Using the WebSecure application – developed by Tencube – a user can track a missing phone via the Internet, create backup for the data stored and even delete the data.

The data retrieved can then be stored on to any S60 phone using a restore option.

Nokia termed WebSecure as the “ultimate security application” for the mobile phone.

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S60 on Symbian OS is one of the three platforms Nokia uses to develop applications. S60 is the only one licensed to developers.

The other two platforms – Series 40 and Series 80 – are strictly for in-house development of applications.

Kalantar said that the S60 was “partially made in India.”

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He, however, lamented that only eight per cent of Indian developers work on developing mobile applications. “Indian developers put most of their professional time on developing Web applications.”

Kalantar added that the combined power of the Internet and S60 could change the economics of development.

“S60 is open to all developers with the widest range of runtime environment and open channels to market,” Kalantar added.

Nokia has built a large developer ecosystem around S60, which supports Symbian C++, Open C, Open C++, Java, Python, Web run-time and Flash, among others.

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