Month: May 2007

Japan to Pass 107 Million Subscribers by 2010

According to the latest research by ROA Group, the number of mobile users in Japan will increase to 107.3 million by the end of 2010 with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 3.93% during 2003-2010. In a new report, ROA Group has analyzed the trends and carrier strategies in the Japanese mobile market in 2006.Read more

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FlashCast beats dirt: Japanese mobile users may soon be warned of an earthquake in their area before it even strikes.

Adobe Flash Cast

Via JD, “Great news, for the tectonically-concerned in Tokyo… mobile providers DoCoMo and KDDI are cooperating on an earthquake notification system, which can transfer information from a plate shift to sensors to network to individuals faster than the shockwaves can penetrate the ground. So you will know of the earthquake before it arrives. They ‘re gradually hooking up individuals to remote sensors all around the world…(I’m not positive that they’re actually using the Adobe Flash Cast publishing service for this relay, but both DoCoMo and KDDI rely on the Flash Cast push services.”

Japan’s two biggest operators, NTT DoCoMo and KDDI, said Wednesday they are jointly developing a system to notify customers of an imminent earthquake, while number three Softbank said it is separately working on a similar service.

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Designing mobiles for the world

Jan Chipchase 

Mobile phones have shaped global communications. But who shapes mobiles? BBC News speaks to Jan Chipchase, principal researcher at Nokia Design.

Jan Chipchase tours the world looking at how people use mobile phones in their everyday lives and, more broadly, how people live. “This is interesting to Nokia because we want to put things in people’s pockets – something of value. As from Jan Chipchase “Human behaviour changes very slowly; technology changes very quickly”

“We do this research work to inform and inspire the design stage. To bring designers into the field so they know whom they are designing for.

“Often designers are designing phones for markets they have little experience of – so we want to bring the world to them and them to the world.”

Its really a good short review to know how Nokia User research works to know what people’s want to put in their pocket 🙂

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decisionEASY – a FlashLite 1.1 application

 Flash lite applications_i2fly

“Can’t choose between two invitations? Can’t decide who shall pay for all the beer you and your pals have drunk? Just in need of one or two dices two play some game? Get decisionEASY and forget the burden of random choices for ever!”

lubilogames design this cool apps. “decisionEASY“to make a decision …so now you can choose 😉 Looks good.

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Adobe Device Central, found another new bug

Just working on some Flash lite concept i found another new bug in Adobe Device Central.

“Jpeg Image issue ” show a red screen in Adobe Device Central.

I tried using Bitmap Image quality settings (tried changing from below 100 %) as in below images, it gives me a red screen output “FLERR: Bad Image Data Error!”
in Adobe Device Central But when i tried the same process using Flash 8 nothing happens. Not sure what can be the reason for this ?. An Image quality can be adjusted easily to get a desired size output.

Adobe device central Jpeg bugs

Some other bugs and missing features which i posted earlier can be seen here.Read more

Hope Someone from Adobe can look in these bugs and will solve soon.

vivek

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Nokia 7001 a phone Concept by Tobias Hornof

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Tobias Hornof, who seems like a fan of both Nokia and Apple, designed this concept device. The so called Nokia 7001 Pocket is a small device that uses a touchscreen for all the user interactions. It can access the Internet, play music and video, take and show photos, and much more. Hopefully, we’ll see Nokia working on a touchscreen based devices in the near future.

I like the concept and UI it looks really cool 🙂

vivek

First IndiMaD E-Seminar – MobileWish: Putting technology to mobile emotions with Samir K. Dash

The IndiMaD User Group is hosting its first E-Seminar with Samir K Dash on June 1 between 7pm-8pm IST (10:30am – 11:30am EST)

The presentation topic is MobileWish: Putting technology to mobile emotions. To give you an introduction about Mobile Wish – MobileWish is world’s first complete mobile greetings messenger created with Adobe Flash Lite 2.0 allowing users to send and receive the greetings to almost anyone around the world on their mobile handsets.

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How you keep your Mobile phone Main/front screen. Do you really keep standby (front horizontal menu) or not?

Need some user reviews and it will be great to know your feedback and views.
My question is very simple: How you keep your Mobile phone Main/front screen. Do you really keep standby (front horizontal menu) or not?

i2fly_without standby

i2fly_without standby

I need your feedback in following way:
Your Mobile phone: Model
Standby: yes or no
Or If you can send me(vivek@i2fly.com) screenshot of your phone then it will be really great.

Kindly post your feedback as soon as possible.

vivek

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Adobe Device central, is something missing?

adobe device central

While doing a short review of Adobe device Central i feel something is missing.
Like :
1. Why no profile (sample device set) for 240×320 under fl 1.1, i use Nokia 6131 with fl 1.1 very similar case in FL 2.0 no profile for 176×208.
2. Even Screensaver functions support in Nokia 6131 but functions are disable not sure why?
3. An addition of Mini display (on supportive phones) in ADC will be really great advantage as it will help in to see content in emulator itself.
4. In wallpaper mode rather then shrinking the space from top and bottom if we will show default icons then it will be really great and user can see how visually content looks. As in practical nothing happens like that. Off course in other sense user know that design should not disturb user interface.
Kindly read full post here  where i mention why and how its useful and it really save time of developers. As even in other emulator like imode-html Simulator, its there.
5. Under Display>reflections we have indoor, outdoor etc. Why not night just curious we can make backlight glow and it will be interesting to user how it looks in night….just a thought.
6. No auto refreshment or a Restart button, each time user has to refresh manually his apps./screensaver/wallpaper etc. It will be great if we have a restart or rerun button. So no double clicking on device list. It also depends on how scripting is written but in many cases it’s required to rerun applications.
7. Why older device like Nokia 6680 removed in recent device profile list.Just curious as it should be there.
8. I installed device profile 5 in flash 8, got error. When choose Nokia 6131 in wallpaper mode then phone height shrinks which is wrong. Instead of content to be shrink as Its not happening in ADC (Adobe device central).

It will be great if anyone notice or feel some missing or future features of Adobe Device Central, Feel free to post here. I hope any one from adobe will notice or speak something.

vivek

Adobe Creative Suite 3 event, Bangalore

Adobe Creative Suite 3 event, Bangalore, India

Adobe Creative Suite 3 event, Bangalore

Adobe Creative Suite 3 event, Bangalore

Adobe Creative Suite 3 event, Bangalore

Some pics from Live Adobe CS3 event, Bangalore which happened on last thursday, 10th  May 07, Its really cool! got some hands on tips from Rajesh, Adobe and V.natrajan, Image Infotainment ltd. Some Cool features of Adobe which I noticed:

  • Adobe product is now more focussing on similar UI interface and maintain functionality so its easy access from one software to another.
  • More on handy design tools to save time.
  • Now photoshop Supports 3d format like 3Ds, Obj, KMz and collada even video can be edited live(Movie Paint) in Photoshop is really cool.
  • Adobe Photoshop Cs3 extended gives a new dimension to Photoshop like non destructive editing using new smart filters its something very similar to Adobe Fireworks filter where any effects or filters can be applied without altering original images.
  • 2D and 3D measurement tools.
  • Adobe Bridge now can handle Camera Raw Images and even a normal photo can be handled as Camera Raw which is really cool.
  • Adobe Flash CS3 and device central 🙂
  • File handling is easy as Layer supports from Adobe Photoshop CS3 or Illustrator CS3 to Flash CS3 works really perfect for designers 🙂

Vivek

Adobe Creative Suite 3 trials now available

adobe creative suite Cs3

Adobe released fully functional 30-day trials of all Adobe® Creative Suite® 3 products and editions.This is the first time that Trial version is available in two formats :by downloading or by ordering a trial DVD set. For Photoshop Extend you can download here.

Trial DVDs of Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Premium, Design Standard, Web Premium, and Web Standard cost US$9.99, and trial DVD sets for Creative Suite 3 Production Premium and Master Collection cost US$24.99, including shipping.

Seems Its really  a good implementations as US$9.99 for trial is very cheap and can save download time 🙂 .

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Adobe Cs3 event is happening all around the world, for India you can register with following below details.Just email your name, designation and company name at cs3@endtoend.in with CS3 confirmed’in the subject line. Or fax us your details mentioning CS3 confirmed to the below fax numbers.

Adobe Cs3 event

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