S60 is a software platform for mobile phones that runs on Symbian OS and owned by Nokia , its smarter as iPhone , and its easy to develop a software , application and widget for it , Aptana Studio now has a plugin for its IDE for developing Mobile Apps and Widgets for Nokia S60 Phones .
Use your HTML, JavaScript, Ajax and CSS skills and Aptana Studio to create widgets and mobile apps that can run locally on Nokia S60 platform phones.
So its easy now for web developers to create applications and widgets , with the same ease for iPhone . Web developer skills which need ( xHTML , Javascript , ajax , DOM and CSS) are the same needed for developing iPhone application now . But is that will be enough to drive the attention of medical , health care related application developers and companies to move their attention from iPhone to S60 Nokia ?!
Aptana.com has create also iPhone plugin for their IDE , however its more older than S60 plugin . Aptana is a succseful IDE for developers who are into RIA , ( Adobe AIR , RubyOnRails ) . and so far they done great work finishing those plugins for developers .
Developing S60 application will be supported by Nokia Web Runtime (WRT) which provides JavaScript APIs for S60 platform features . which also can be downloaded as Aptana Studio IDE plugin .
Aptana IDE is an eclipse based , so there for developers can use eclipse plugins as well on it , and there are some plugins developed for BioInformatics which will be useful for developers interest on it .
But is S60 will be the competetior for iPhone ?
Hamza Emadeen Mousa
