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Nokia has announced that its S60 mobile phone will be the first mobile software platform to have widget support. Widget support will enable users to create widgets using familiar standards-based web technologies.

For those who are still in the dark with regards to widgets, well, they are nothing but little buttons that allow people to personalize Internet content into lightweight Web applications.

According to Tero Ojanperä, Chief Technology Officer, Nokia, “Mobility will change the Internet as people are able to access and create information specific to place, time and context. Widgets are an important milestone in this development. Introducing widget support for S60, much of the innovation seen on the Internet today is being brought to the mobile space for the benefit of the millions of S60 mobile device users.”

Web Run-Time and widget support will be available to S60 licensees as part of the S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 2. Tools, documentation and a software developer kit for widget development will be made available via Forum Nokia during the third quarter 2007. Widgets will be distributed to users through several channels, one of which is
WidSets, a popular consumer Internet service, which allows users to personalize their mobile Internet experience.

Nokia will host a live audiocast at 1.15 p.m. CET today as Chief Technology Officer Tero Ojanperä presents how Nokia and S60 make the Web personal on your mobile.