Via Biskero several new phones have been added to the list of supported Verizon Wireless phones. Download the updated Flash Lite supported devices spreadsheet.
- LG VX5300 (added)
- LG VX8700 (added)
- LG VX8350 (added)
- LG VX9400 (added)
- Motorola RAZR V9m (added)
- Samsung SCH-U740 (added)
Mobspecs wrote some interesting findings. An analysis made by A. Hill M: Metrics, a company that operates internationally that detects the consumption of content and mobile services in the United States and Western Europe, held to Develop Conference 2008, we learn interesting data.
The most important are those relating to the terminals more prevalent in Europe and technologies implemented in them. The 76.4% of terminals, in fact, are compatible with the Java platform MIDP 2.0 against 27% of those compatible with FlashLite. Most terminals compatible with these two technologies, says Hill, are mostly Nokia and Sony-Ericsson. Read the rest of this entry »
Opera recently released its widgets SDK for the forthcoming Opera 9.5 browser. Opera licenses its browser to consumer electronics OEMs and phone manufacturers. For example, all Symbian UIQ 3.3 devices have Opera 9.5 pre-installed and hence support this application runtime. Also Opera 9.5 apparently supports Flash Lite 3.0. This opens up another way to distribute Flash Lite and web browser based mobile applications, similar to Nokia WRT.
The SDK includes documentation, a desktop PC emulator, a debugger and a DOM inspector.
Visit the Opera developer web site for more details.

Sony Ericsson they have announced/mentioned the first mobile phone which supports the Project Capuchin API. It’s the SE C905 phone with Flash Lite 2.0, FM tuner and a 8.1 megapixel camera.
What is Project Capuchin?
Sony Ericsson’s Project Capuchin technology is a Java ME API and associated tools that define a bridge between the Java ME and Adobe Flash Lite programming environments.
This API and soon-to-be-available tools makes it possible to use Flash as the presentation layer and Java as the application logic, meaning that Flash tools can be used for UI design while still having access to all the phone services available to Java ME.
The tool packages the Flash content together with the Java application logic into a Java Archive, JAR file, hence allowing the resulting application and package to be treated and managed as a Java application re-using all of the existing Java infrastructure available on the phone and provisioning backend.
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