Nokia Research Center has released their wonderful Nokia Sports Tracker application which is a GPS based activity tracker that runs on S60 smartphones. Information such as speed, distance and time are automatically stored to your training diary. To be able to use application for real, you need Nokia S60 3.0 phone with Bluetooth GPS device or Nokia S60 3.0 phone with integrated GPS.
Freeware version
So time to start the jogging 😀
Looks cool 🙂
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Jan Chipchase of the Nokia Research Center talks about how behavioral research feeds into the phone maker’s design strategies.
He talk many things about behavioural design and uses of mobile in different cultures or regions. how actually people use mobile in villlages etc.
Intresting interview!!
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It was great meeting with John Koch, Adobe’s Developer Relations Manager from APAC. We discuss on many things related to Flash lite. Like
He shown Nokia 5300 from T-mobile with cool wallpaper and screensavers 🙂
And promises that things will be better soon for flash lite developers in India but it take some time.
Got Cool gifts from him too 🙂
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Splus released mySportData : a FL 2.1 application
Features are:
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Selatra CEO Sean Cronin said: “We foresaw the great impact FlashLite would have on the mobile gaming market and committed early to producing a comprehensive catalogue with content developed aggressively through our partner programme. We firmly believe casual gaming will grow strongly as consumers seek to bring their PC console experience to the mobile and play their favourite flash games while on the go.”
Specifically, Seletra has partnered with US-based JRVisuals Studio to bring FlashLite versions of retro classics Meteors, Reversi and Invasion to market.
Read more
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SWF2Go is a professional toolkit for Adobe Flash Lite, which allows developers to create Symbian SIS installer and SWF launcher icon for Flash Lite applications.
SWF2Go is compatible with all versions of Adobe Flash Lite Player up to v2.1 and with Symbian S60 platform editions 1st, 2nd & 3rd. Thus allowing developers to distribute their Adobe Flash Lite based games and applications to a wide range of mobile devices.
Features:
Great job!! by orisonÂ
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Aral Balkanan share a little FlashLite 2.1 mobile app that converts hexadecimal to decimal to binary. As an added little bonus, it also converts the hex values to characters and vice-versa.
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unic8 Studios released “Asteroid defense” first Flash lite 1.0 based classic space shooter action game with a new concept.
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If you are interested in participating in this study, please answer the questions at: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=412513363969
If you are a good fit for this study, we will then contact you about scheduling a session. Otherwise, we will keep you in mind for participation in future projects. We look forward to hearing from you.
Adobe User Research
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The winners of the Nokia and SingTel Multiplayer Game Quest have been announced after several months of exciting competition between Forum Nokia PRO developer finalists from around the world.
The Game Quest was launched last June with a challenge to develop connected multiplayer Javaâ„¢ games that would capture the imaginations of millions of mobile subscribers in the Asia-Pacific region.
Winners and Runner-ups are:
Category: Cross Platform Gaming
Winner
Game: Chess Game
Developer: G-mode, Japan
Runner-up
Game: 4ToScore
Developer: Hungama Mobile, India
Category: Multiplayer Gaming for the Male Segment
Winner
Game: Street Golf
Developer: Mauj, India
Runner-up
Game: Battle Jams
Developer: Activate, Singapore
Category: Multiplayer Gaming for the Female Segment
Winner
Game: Puzzle Bobble
Developer: Taito, Japan
Runner-up
Game: Mapan
Developer: 01 bit-side, Germany
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Indiagames launched 9Â games for all the Flash Lite supported handsets on Nokia S60 and around 5 wallpapers/screensavers for each sceen resolution of Nokia S40 in Singapore using the Nokia Content Discover on device catalog. Via Mariam
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This interview is with Adobe and Adobe gets into some serious detail with their new mobile phone development strategy centered on Flash Lite.
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While creating Flash lite wallpaper we still feel sometime that graphics is overlapping or disturbing user interface.
It’s good to consider always about onscreen elements and “screen clutterâ€. “Might the wallpaper background interfere with the user interface on the phone as Scott too mention in Flash applications for Mobile devices book.â€
So again we have to come back to flash authoring and change design elements then test again in cel phone.
Off course testing is very important while developing mobile contents but
this small template can save a bit of time of designers/developers.
That’s what how this small idea originate in my mind 🙂 .
How to use this template:
See the difference in Flash lite emulator:
Earlier without template- see image 1
Now with template- See image 3,  its easy, now developer can see how content looks in cel phone. Â
Download here
For series 40: display resolutions 240 x 320 (width x height) pixels.
For series 60: updating soon.
Looking for your feedback what you feel about this small template.
Kindly feel free to post your comments and suggestion.
Jesse Warden released another flash lite 2 application “360FlexSchedule” for up to date conference schedule on your phone / device.
Cool 🙂
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