Opera Mobile S60 improves media portability

• Author: karui
• Filed under: Mobile Phones & Devices, Software Tools

  Related Tags: flash lite 2.1, flash player, flashlite 2.1, Opera, Opera mobile, S60, Windows Mobile

• Date: Jun 11,2008

Opera Mobile brings full Internet content and images to any device, from computers and cell phones to portable media players and game consoles.

New Features for Opera Mobile 8.65
* Support for Macromedia Flash Player 7 for Pocket PC
* FlashLite 2.1
* Text Wrap in Desktop Mode
* Grab and Scroll (only applicable to Pocket PC)
* Web search in address bar
* Save image
* Copy text
* Send link as email, SMS or MMS
* Import Bookmarks from Pocket Internet Explorer
* Desktop Mode as default viewing mode

Nokia Mobile Design Recommendations

• Author: karui
• Filed under: Software Tools, Tutorials & Tips

  Related Tags: enterprise, Java, mobile design, Nokia, Quality, S60, Series 40, UI, Usability

• Date: Jun 9,2008

Nokia forum publish a couple of articles, could be the Best practice for Mobile Design.

The first articles gives an explanation to what is good design and why it should be pursued in the first place. The article discusses the very core of design and the value that good design can bring to the end product. The article also takes a look into design today and tomorrow. It touches on Java ,Quality,S60,Series 40 ,UI ,Usability

Next one provides an overview to different aspects of mobile designing, such as the mobile context, tools, and standards. The challenges of mobile design are discussed with guidance of how to overcome them. An extended of the previous article touches more Enterprise scale.

The KISS60

• Author: ezpod
• Filed under: Event News & Updates, Mobile Phones & Devices, Software Tools

  Related Tags: 3109 classic, 3110 classic, 3250, 3500 classic, 5200, 5300, 5310, 5500 sport, 5610, 5700, 6085, 6086, 6110 Navigator, 6120 Classic, 6121 Classic, 6125, 6126, 6131, 6133, 6136, 6151, 6233, 6267, 6290, 6300, 6301, 6500, 6555, 7373, 7390, 7500, 7900, 8600 luna, 8800 Arte, 8800 sirocco, E50, E51, E60, E61, E61i, E62, E65, E70, E90, LiveU, N71, N73, N73 ME, N75, N76, N77, N80, N80 IE, N81, N81 8GB, N82, N91, N91 ME, N92, N93, N93i, N95, N95 8GB, N95-3 NAM, Nokia, S60, SO702i, SO902i, SO902iWPT, SO903i, sony, V800, W215, W325, W415, W425, W43S, W44S, W610i, W660i, W710i, W830a, W830c, W850i, W880i, Z712a, Z800i

• Date: May 17,2008

Introducing the KISS60 , it is a free mobile application that allows you to manage and enjoy FlashLite screensavers on S60 phone. When S60 phone can support Flashlite this , increase the number of mobile devices that can use the KISS60 and also the software is completely free to download and use.KISS60 enables FlashLite screensavers on 35 more* phones.

List of the phone that can use the application:-

Nokia : 3109 classic, 3110 classic, 3500 classic, 5200, 5300, 5310, 5610, 6085, 6086, 6125, 6126, 6131, 6133, 6136, 6151, 6233, 6267, 6300, 6301, 6500, 6555, 7373, 7390, 7500, 7900, 8600 luna, 8800 sirocco, 8800 Arte, 3250, 5500 sport, 5700, 6110 Navigator, 6120 Classic, 6121 Classic, 6290, E50, E51, E60, E61, E61i, E62, E65, E70, E90, N71, N73, N73 ME, N75, N76, N77, N80, N80 IE, N81, N81 8GB, N82, N91, N91 ME, N92, N93, N93i, N95, N95 8GB, N95-3 NAM .

Sony Ericsson :SO702i, SO902i, SO902iWPT, SO903i, V800, W215, W325, W415, W425, W610i, W660i, W710i, W830a, W830c, W850i, W880i, Z712a, Z800i, W43S, W44S

A Shot in the Dark with Flash Lite

• Author: ezpod
• Filed under: Event News & Updates, Software Tools

  Related Tags: BREW, iPhone, Java, Microsoft, Nokia, qualcom, S60, Silverlight, Symbian, windows

• Date: May 9,2008

The fact that Adobe has only delivered fair to poor Flash support for any platform outside of Windows is also a significant problem. While the company likes to rattle off the number of devices and operating systems that “support Flash,” it hides the fact that few of those actually support the latest Flash 9, with many stuck at support for Flash 5, 6, or 7.

Mobile devices typically run Flash Lite, which targets a minimal subset of Flash interactivity; the existing Flash Lite 2.0 is based upon the 2003 Flash 7 runtime. The recently announced Flash Lite 3.0 will be the first version that can play Flash video, the primary attraction of Flash on the web.

Flash Lite does not run on the iPhone. At Apple’s recent shareholder meeting, Steve Jobs noted that the Lite version of Flash “is not capable of being used with the web,” meaning it can’t play back content developed for the desktop web browsers, while the full desktop runtime “performs too slow to be useful” on the iPhone.

While Adobe has bundled Flash Lite players for devices running Symbian, Sun’s Java ME, Qualcom’s BREW, and Microsoft’s Windows Mobile, it also competes against those platforms for native development attention. It should come as no surprise that once those companies discover this, they will likely react the same way Microsoft did on the Windows desktop. Certainly, once Microsoft can deliver its own mobile version of Silverlight, it will attempt to displace Flash Lite. That’s apparently not too far away; the company recently demonstrated a beta of Silverlight 2 running on Nokia’s Symbian S60 and Windows Mobile devices.

[www.appleinsider.com] By Prince McLean