Double compatiblity JAVA MIDP and Flash Lite

• Author: karui
• Filed under: Event News & Updates

  Related Tags: 3G, Java MIDP, Nokia, Sony Ericsson

• Date: Aug 1,2008

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.

Sony Ericsson SE C905 with Project Capuchin

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

  Related Tags: API, flash lite 2.0, Java, JavaME, Project Capuchin, Sony Ericsson, Sony SE C905

• Date: Jul 2,2008

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.

Sony Ericsson SO706i Flash Lite Mobile

• Author: karui
• Filed under: Mobile Phones & Devices

  Related Tags: flash lite 3.0, Flash Lite Mobile Phone, Sony Ericsson

• Date: Jun 30,2008

The new SO706i from Sony Ericsson is a clamshell that comes in three basic color versions (white, golden pink and black) as well as in lots of other girly-colored versions. Also, the handset is packed with countless wallpapers that have floral motifs. The features of SO706i include: a 2.8 inch TFT internal display with 262K colors and a 240 x 427 pixel resolution, external LEDs for incoming calls, messages or emails, GSM and HSDPA connectivity (the GSM one is only for global roaming, as Japan doesn’t use these frequencies anymore), mobile TV, advanced email and Web capabilities (Flash Lite 3.0 support included), Google Maps, Google search integration, a 2 Megapixel camera with auto focus and video recording, pre-installed games and lots of other useful applications. The internal memory of the handset is not known, but we do know that it can be expanded with a microSD card, up to 2GB.

Sony Ericsson move for a Java ME and Flash Lite bridge

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

  Related Tags: Java, Java ME, Sony Ericsson

• Date: May 1,2008

Sony Ericsson wants mobile software developers to have the best of both worlds.

Next week at JavaOne, the company plans to demonstrate its Project Capuchin, which will allow software developers to create applications for mobile phones that can use pieces of both Java ME and Adobe Systems’ Flash Lite to create their applications. The company plans to release a set of APIs (application programming interfaces) and a software development kit in the second half of this year to bring the two different mobile development styles together.

For example, Java developers could decide to use the richer user interface technology found in Flash Lite, said Ulf Wretling, general manager, head of developer program and communications for Sony Ericsson. Or maybe a developer wants to use Java’s three-dimensional graphics for a mobile game but would prefer to use Flash Lite for menus, he said.

The problem with this kind of project is that while it creates a “bridge” between the two technologies, as Wretling put it, it also pulls developers away from the current road map for both Java and Flash Lite. The difference here is that developers will still be able to create regular Java or Flash applications using this set of APIs, just mixing and matching technology from the other camp as needed.

This technology will be used on the mass-market mobile phone, not the smartphone category with more sophisticated operating systems. Sony Ericsson phones will arrive in the second half of the year with this technology, but the company plans to release the software development kit before the phones arrive.

Ultimately, Sony Ericsson would like to share the technology with the broader community so that it could be used on other phone platforms. “We intend to make the APIs available, to publish them, but in what way, form and shape we haven’t fully decided yet,” said David. “But you can anticipate standards or open source or a combination thereof.”

With a growing number of mobile operating systems and development platforms on the market, Sony Ericsson, like the other phone makers, will be competing for developer attention. All of the software and phone makers want to attract the best developers, who in turn want to be able to create attractive applications that can be used by a large user base.

“There is definitely competition about getting developers’ mind share,” said Wretling. However, if companies like Sony Ericsson can make the development environment attractive, they can help grow the number of mobile-application developers too, he said. Ultimately that benefits users, who will be able to choose from an increasing number of applications.

[cnet]