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
As with the release of a mobile guide for Rock Werchter there is more interesting features incorporated. Finally a beta working version on multi mobile platform previously only reach out to flash lite enabled phones from Nokia, Sony Ericson, … now they have ported their app to the iPhone.
For the first time (unless we missed something) flash lite content is ported to the iphone. Of course with all of the iphone UI advantages implemented! “How exactly did they managed this!” I hear you guys shout out loud. A while ago I was contacted by Emanuele Cipolloni from barefootsoft.com telling me about an awesome project they were working on: b.Tween. This is a framework using barefootsoft’s EyeGT technology to compile mobile content and deliver it across other devices. They were finishing the framework and wanted to test it out on Flash Lite content which I’d gladly delivered as you probably could imagine!
You can find more information about EyeGT at www.barefootsoft.com. Even though the b.Tween framework is still in a beta version and it is not 100% perfectly optimized, the result is stunning! Check out the youtube video:
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iPhone with Flash Lite content breakthrough
Nokia 6600 slide mobile phone is to be introduced later this year with enhanced features and updated functions. The features, appearance and special functions are what will make this phone stand out from other phones in this category. It is a smooth sliding phone with a glossy appearance with steel covers and aluminum center keys.
All features in this phone are well balanced and it is visibly very simple and elegant looking. When you tap the Nokia 6600 Slide phone twice it can indicate time, alerts, rejects calls, or snoozes. This feature is sure to attract users who prefer innovation in their mobile functions. The 3.2 mega pixel camera will enable high precisions photos and videos. The internet and MMS feature can be accessed from the phone menu. The 16 million colour 2.2†and QVGA display and the integrated nokia maps which can be augmented with separate navigation license and Nokia Bluetooth GPS module LD-4W can definitely take around every nook and corner of the town.
The 64 polyphonic ringtones, video, mp3,MP4, eAAC+ ,AAC AND MS-Windows media audio along with FM radio and MPG4 features make this Nokia 6600 a great model and a priced possession. It uses almost 20MB memory and he WAP 2.0 HTML browsing will definitely enhance your online mobile experience over HTTP/TCP/IP stack. Java and Macromedia flash is enables along with opera mini 4 browser.
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Nokia 6600 Slide a Flash Lite mobile phone
As Nokia making a full stake of Symbian and all Symbian products, there is a bright future for further integration of Flash Lite on to mobile phones. We can see more and more Flash Lite enables phones in market in near future.
From Washingtonpost :
Nokia announced this morning that it will pay $410 million to buy the remaining shares of Symbian that it did not already own and then turn the assets into a foundation that provides open-source software to developers.
In terms of Flash Lite
– Technology integration: This sounds like a pretty inclusive policy. The foundation will provide the integration of such environments as Java, Adobe FlashLite and Microsoft Silverlight.
– Driving innovation: Everyone on the call this morning seemed to echo the same idea that by being open-source and opening the code up, it will drive innovation and make the platform a leader. Mats Lindoff, CTO, Sony Ericsson: "Through its openness and completeness, it will fuel innovation, and it will bring growth to the mobile industry, service providers, developers and consumers, as well." Motorola VP Christy Wyatt: "By unifying the ecosystem today and by leveraging existing technology, we believe the combined efforts will truly accelerate the Symbian ecosystem, and provide greater opportunities for ourselves and partners."
Good news for all including the developer as Nokia-Symbian is going for open-source business model as for consumer we should see cheaper price of mobile phones and smartphones.
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Nokia - Symbian possible for a cheaper smart mobile phones
