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.
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Double compatiblity JAVA MIDP and Flash Lite
Adobe Flash, the popular platform for web applications and media, may finally be coming to the iPhone. “May” is the operative word here — it sounds like development is still in the early stages, and Apple might not even be interested.
While Flash-related speculation hasn’t even approached the level of constant rumors and counter-rumors about the release of the iPhone 3G, there’s still been plenty of grumbling. After all, the lack of Flash support is disappointing on a device that’s supposed to offer the most advanced mobile browsing experience around.
Adobe chief executive Shantanu Narayen set off a wave of discussion during an earnings conference call in March, when he said the company was working on version of Flash for the iPhone, although Adobe later clarified that all the discussions were still preliminary. Well, it’s three months later and time for another earnings call. Naturally, Narayen took the opportunity to get people talking again. He said Flash for the iPhone is now “working on the emulation.” That means Adobe has Flash running on an iPhone emulator on a computer in the company’s labs. As for an actual iPhone … they’re working on it. This isn’t exactly an earth-shattering announcement, but hey, at least it’s progress.
(Anthony Ha, http://venturebeat.co)
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Flashlite Missing the iPhone Ride
- Author: ezpod
- Filed under: Event News & Updates, Mobile Phones & Devices, Software Tools
Related Tags: 3G, Flash Lite, gms, HSDPA, mms, Nokia, Real Media, S60, ssl, WAP
- Date: Apr 21,2008
This is the first Communicator with 3G, and HSDPA at that. Sadly for us Americans, that high speed data connection is available only on the 2100Mhz band, which isn’t used in the US. That means we have to resort to 2.5G EDGE, which averages 165k on the E90 according to DSL Reports mobile speed test. You can turn off 3G in phone settings to save power as a consolation. Thankfully, there’s WiFi for much faster data when near a hotspot or home/work access point. The E90 is a quad band GSM world phone that supports all GSM bands: 850/900/1800/1900MHz and it’s sold unlocked for use with any GSM carrier by Dynamism and other importers. The SIM card is located under the battery. Though import versions of the E90 aren’t targeted to the US, the Nokia Settings Wizard had no trouble setting up AT&T and T-Mobile settings for data and MMS for us. Call quality was the usual excellent Nokia stuff, and reception is strong (stronger than the Nokia 9300) on both the 850 and 1900MHz bands as measured using PhoneNetInfo and other decibel-reading utilities. The E90 comes with the usual speed dial where you can assign 2 through 9 to numbers in your contacts (1 is reserved for voicemail). Also there is Nokia’s voice dialing which we’ve never found very trustworthy (woe when it dials an overseas contact instead of the intended next door neighbor). Voice dialing gives you only 1.5 seconds to make sure it “heard” and dialed the correct number.
We’ve extolled the many virtues of the S60 3rd edition web browser in several other reviews. Suffice to say it and the iPhone have the best browser in the mobile business, hands down. Pages are generally rendered faithfully, including javascript and most dHTML based on javascript, CSS, tables, frames and more. The S60 browser uses Safari technology, and it also handles WAP sites and RSS feeds. In conjunction with the 800 pixel wide screen display, it’s a most desktop-like experience. Sorry, there’s no QuickTime or Windows Media player but it does support Flash Lite, Real Media and multiple windows along with SSL.
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Review : Nokia E90 Communicator
