*support for high-resolution 640x360 touchscreens;
*before 5th Edition, all S60 devices had a button-based user interface.
*it also integrates standard C/C++ APIs
*includes Adobe Flash Lite 3.0 with S60-specific ActionScript extensions that give Flash Lite developers access to phone features like contacts, text messaging, sensors and device location information (GPS).

In addition to the well-known features like the S60 browser and web widgets of the previous S60 3rd Edition, the new S60 5th Edition introduces a host of new features that improve the multimedia and internet experience, offer a reliable, visual touch UI experience, and drive the evolution of developer innovation.
S60 5th Edition includes advanced camcorder features, including widescreen (16:9) video recording capability. With the widescreen nHD display support in S60 5th Edition, it’s now possible watch videos and images in widescreen mode. The versatile multimedia support includes the common video and audio formats such as MP3, ACC, H.264, Windows Media, Flash Video.
Touch UI, combined with tactile feedback and sensor framework, creates new opportunities for S60 licensees to differentiate and enhance the familiar S60 user experience. The built-in demand paging in S60 5th Edition improves application performance especially for memory-hungry applications and improves memory management to minimize the risks of an out-of-memory situation.
To evolve the developer innovation and opportunities, S60 5th Edition introduces Platform Services for S60. Platform Services enable web widget and Flash developers to access a rich set of features offered by S60 on the Symbian OS platform. With the addition of Open C++, S60 offers a wide set of powerful developer opportunities for various different developer needs.