Adobe pubilshed a valuable beta reference pdf that contains an overview of supported and unsupported ActionScript in Flash Lite versions 2.1, 3.0, 3.1, 3.1.7 as well as Adobe Mobile Clients: 1.0 and 1.1
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Category: Mobile
Video:Nokia Photo Browser “Browse your photos with stunning 3D effects”
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Nokia beta labs released Nokia photo browser “you can browse photo with stunning 3D effects” and cool features like magnifying glass,
Face detection! etc.
Looks great but still i feel WOW factor is missing.
vivek
Video: Opera Mobile 9.7 with Opera Turbo and Flash lite support
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Opera announced the new Opera Mobile 9.7 server-accelerated browser for smartphones and mobile devices. Opera Mobile 9.7 features Opera Turbo, Opera’s breakthrough compression technology, along with the company’s latest Presto 2.2 rendering engine (also used in Opera 10 desktop) and full support for dynamic Web technologies such as Ajax and Flash (for accessing popular sites like Facebook and YouTube).
Opera Mobile 9.7 will be officially available for download in the first half of 2009.
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Nokia Developer Summit 2009 announced
Nokia today announced the 2009 Nokia Developer Summit “two-day summit will explore global application distribution through Nokia channels, web runtime and browser optimization, plus cross-platform development using latest Nokia technologies ”
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Dimensions of compelling mobile experiences
An interesting read on different dimensions and thoughts on creating or thinking for “WOW” experiences in Mobile. we need to think on how your application can shine! sometimes its too difficult to find the right information at just right time! Think before you are planning for creating an application i.e. who are your user, purpose of the application, an intuitive User Interface, application for cross device capabilities etc. even smallest things matters.
The Major few aspects are:
Core, Social, Contextual, Cloud, Multi-screen
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Nokia and Adobe launch $10 Million Open Screen Project Fund
Adobe and Nokia announced a $10 million Open Screen Project fund which is designed to help developers create applications and services for mobile, desktop and consumer electronics devices using the Adobe Flash Platform “a singular experience for multiple devices”
“The Open Screen Project Fund encourages the use of Adobe tools and existing developer skills to create exciting and unique Flash applications for millions of Nokia devices,†said Tero Ojanpera, EVP, Nokia Services. “With more than 300 million Flash enabled devices in market, we will support these developers through the Forum Nokia developer community while providing a more targeted distribution channel to consumers with Nokia’s Ovi Store.â€
The new fund is a result of the Open Screen Project, an industry-wide initiative of more than 20 industry leaders set to enable a consistent experience for web browsing and standalone applications. you can find additional information on the Open Screen Project website and Forum Nokia website.
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Watch video: LG KP500 “Cookie” Adobe Mobile Client with active flash lite UI
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LG released a cool sporty phone with beautiful user interface using Adobe Mobile Client “a flash lite technology, especially used for User interface and only available for an OEM or targeting BREW MP.
The user interface is very intuitive that users will want to explore and master all of the functions and features of the LG-KP500. The UI allows users to access menus easily and shift around other menus simply and quickly with just one touch.
very cool
vivek
Design for Mobile 2009 conference
Design For Mobile is the first and only North American mobile user experience conference. This is a two-day conference focused on strategy and tactics for user research, product definition, interaction and other design, and usability testing. A day of workshops precede the conference sessions.
Event Time: April 20-22, 2009
Registration: is now open with the early bird rate available until March 7th.
I feel and think design is something which can change the way people look things and connects everyone. 🙂
vivek
Video: Introduction to Adobe’s mobile packager
A step by step video tutorial of Adobe’s mobile packager for distributing your Flash lite content by Serge Jespers.
“you can now package your application using the Mobile Packager and distribute your application as an SIS-file for Symbian S60 or CAB-file for Window Mobile phones. Your users can now download and install your Flash based application on their mobile device just like any other application they install. What’s even cooler is that we also package a Flash Version Checker together with your application. As soon as the user launches the application, the Flash Version Checker is going to check if the Flash Player is installed and if it is the correct version. If not, it’s going to download and install the Flash Lite runtime seamlessly.”
Unfortunately this packager works only on Windows and i hope adobe may release Mac version soon!!!
Very cool.
vivek
Microsoft’s announced new version of Windows Mobile with Adobe Flash lite 3.1
Microsoft’s announced at the Mobile World Congress, Barcelona that newer version of Windows Mobile is with adobe Flash Lite 3.1
“What people really want is PC-style browsing on the phone. … There’s all these stats whereby if you tell users, go to the most popular sites and do something, they have this success and failure rate of whether they can do it on different mobile smart phones. With Internet Explorer, our rendering, how the UI looks, it is much more accurate to the PC because it’s the PC browser.”
“Then, by including Flash Lite in there, it also helps if you have a Flash site. Some of them use Flash actually as core navigation and functionality. So it’s not all eye candy. If you go to a site like that, at least you can go find the information and interact with it. The bigger news isn’t about Flash Lite, the bigger news is about getting PC-quality browsing on your phone.”
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Adobe Releases Distributable Flash Lite 3.1 Player
Adobe released the most excited stuff for Adobe Flash Lite developer “redistributable version of the Flash Lite 3.1 player along with the packager tool”. You really don’t need to worry about whether someone has the player, and being helpless to get them it if they haven’t. 🙂
The distributable player solution enables developers to create rich applications for the latest version of Adobe® Flash Lite™ and directly distribute their content to millions of open OS smartphones, providing a better on-device user experience.
Currently this solution is available only in few selected cities like India, Italy, Spain, UK, and the U.S. can easily download applications. (additional countries will be added over time.) After downloading an application, consumers see its user-friendly icon in the device menu.
I am excited to do few testing on my Nokia 5320 Xpress music, we all should be proud that adobe made this available for India 😀 .
vivek
Adobe has announced the Flash Lite Developer’s Challenge.
Adobe has just announced the Flash Lite Developer’s Challenge in various catagories. The contest will award prizes to the best Flash Lite applications in the following categories:
1.Game
2.Infotainment
3.Lifestyle
4.Sports
5.Social Networking
Deadline for entries: 31 May, 2009
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Nokia launches IdeasProject.com “Do you have any idea” :)
Nokia has launched IdeasProject, an online information space designed to help people find and understand the connections between thought leaders and their big ideas.
“IdeasProject is an exciting new way to highlight big ideas from leading thinkers, and to show how so many new thoughts are connected to one another,” said Loic Le Meur, Founder, Seesmic and LeWeb conference. Le Meur’s “big idea” on IdeasProject is that “Sharing changes everything.”
“IdeasProject visitors can see new ideas as they surface and be able to track the connection between ideas and the thought leaders that contributed them,” said Valerie Buckingham, Director of Technology Marketing, Nokia.
Interesting! 🙂
vivek
Flash Lite Enabled Handsets to Top 1 Billion Cumulative Shipments in Q1 2009
Via Biskero, Strategy Analytics released new statistics about Adobe Flash Lite.
“Cumulative shipments of Flash-Lite enabled cellphones hit an estimated 961 million units at the of December 2008, up 489 million units over the previous year. With a current run-rate of over 40 million new shipments per month, Strategy Analytics estimates that the 1 billion figure will have been reached by the end of January 2009. Shipments of FL version 3.0 accounted for 8% of total FL shipments in 2008 globally, though in Japan the figure was over 42%â€
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i2fly featured in cool mobile design catagories on PAGE design magazine :)
i2fly on the cool mobile design showcase of PAGE magazine’s January 2009 issue. I’ve been dreaming of being featured on publications this year and never imagined to be get featured in the beginning of new year. Feeling soo great and a dream come true 🙂
About project:
Mysore dasara is a mobile website designed for Indian festival. you can find the finest information while traveling there, an ultimate travel guide for events schedules, hotels, how to reach, image gallery etc.
You can read about Mysore dasara mobile project here.
Cheers everyone. 🙂
vivek
Creating Flash Lite Mobile Applications: A Real World Example
Via Biskero, a new video from Adobe MAX, Creating Flash Lite Mobile Applications: A Real World Example.
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