Nokia Series 40 and W3C Widgets

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I was quite surprised to notice that latest Series 40 phones support standard W3C widgets. If that wasn’t enough to get my attention I also noticed that they have a competition for creating apps that run on Series 40 Feature Pack 1 devices.

What I did was converted my Symbian^3 game, Blockers, for Series 40 screen size and packaged the game as stated in W3C standard. Unfortunately I don’t have a Series 40 phones myself but luckily Nokia also provides simulator with Nokia Web Tools for testing e.g. Series 40 Web Apps. The shown screenshot was taken from the simulator.

If you happen to have a Series 40  (especially Touch and Type) phone, I would be really interested on hearing how the game works on your phone!

Game can be downloaded from project site, here. …or direct link to .wgt file.

  • Eccolo

    I copied the .wgt file onto the memory of my 6260 slide (s40 5th ed) but the phone doesn’t recognize the format. How should i use it?

  • Marcos Caceres

    They are not quite standards complaint. They implement an versions of the W3C widget specs and require a few proprietary things for their widgets to work (at least in their emulator). Hopefully they will sort all that out soon.