Well, since it’s still 16 days away until the official US launch of the T-Mobile G1 (HTC Dream running Google’s Android), T-Mobile decided to throw the fans a bone and published a website covering the G1 and also provides an emulator where you can try the device.

The emulator itself is a bit frustrating. Most of the menu applications are not operatable and has a red textbox in the middle of the screen saying “This screen is not fully functional”. So all you’re left to do is stare at the screen as if it was an image.

The emulator does give the sence of the wider-than-screen desktop as you can drag it right and left and see how you can feel it with icons and widgets, and the notifications screen which needs to be dragged from the top to see latest notifications. Read more »

A few hours ago Sittiphol Phanvilai posted a first glance on the S60 5th Edition on his Forum Nokia Blog. He shows images from the SDK Emulator and discusses a few of the improvements made in this edition.

To remind you, the first s60 5th edition device is the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic which is a touchscreen device.  Quite obvious the major feature Symbian developers are going to explore in this edition is the touchscreen.

Also, in Voice of S60 Saara Bergstrom interviewed Eero Kukko, who’s managing the S60 Platform Marketing, about the highlights of the new S60 5th Edition. You can download in MP3 version here (11:40, 5.33 MB).

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