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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Dimensions of compelling mobile experiences

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

Read more

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Nokia and Adobe launch $10 Million Open Screen Project Fund

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.”

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

good article on “Industry trends in prototyping”

trends in prototyping

trends in prototyping

A nice article by Dave Cronin on “Industry trends in prototyping” and work around in different scenarios.

There are various reasons for creating prototypes.

  • Prototypes make your designs better
  • Prototypes facilitate communication
  • Prototypes enable user input and usability assessment
  • Prototypes help assess technical feasibility and reduce development time

“Call it serendipity or even luck, but once you start drawing or making things, you open up new possibilities of discovery.”

vivek

Intelligere Flash Lite Server released

Intelligere Flash Lite Server (FLS) is a c++ opoen source component that gives to you the possibility to interact with the API of a symbian device from Flash Lite. Using FLS you can extend the capabilities of your Flash Lite application making some simple HTTP calls sending commands and getting back data in ths SWF file.

The main features of FLS are

– Launch native video player in full screen mode
– Download a file from the NET
– Check the percentage of the download in progress
– Create the APN without opening the native selector -certificate is requested
– Read variables without opening the APN selector
– Stop all the downloads
– Close the whole application
– Create a file
– Delete a file
– Write content into a file deleting everything before
– Append content to a file
– Clear all the contents of a file
– Rename a file
– Check if a file exist
– Get all the content of a directory
– Create a directory
– Delete a directory

Read more

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Design for Mobile 2009 conference

design for mobile

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

Adobe Flash Player 10 critical Update for Flash CS4 Professional!

Adobe released an important update for Adobe Flash Player 10 Update for Flash CS4 Professional!

“This download contains fixes for critical vulnerabilities identified in Security Bulletin APSB09-01 Flash Player update available to address security vulnerabilities. The update replaces the Debug and Release versions of Flash Player 10 browser plugins and standalone players that are included in the initial release of Flash CS4 Professional (player version 10.0.2.54). All users are encouraged to apply this update. These new players are version 10.0.22.87.”

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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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