Archive for the 'Flash Lite' Category
Friday, May 16th, 2008
Felipe Andrade and Alessandro Pace have created Jarpa, "Java Packaging for Flash Lite Developers".
The latest S60 phones support both Java ME and Flash Lite. Jarpa allows Flash Lite Developers to deliver their content as Java ME applications. The Java and Flash Lite can communicate via either files or a custom Symbian Server.
I have had a […]
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Friday, May 2nd, 2008
There’s an interesting article ‘Fragmentation is the enemy of innovation‘ on the MEX blog - especially interesting for me as I am quoted in it.
I also tend to think Flash Lite’s new zero cost licensing has come too late - I criticised Flash Lite licensing in 2005. As an aside, Adobe’s existing shipped 500m licenses […]
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
I was sad to hear today that Sonopia has failed. I previously thought Sonopia presented some interesting opportunities for more vertical applications (see Related Articles below).
While I don’t know much about what happened within Sonopia, I suspect it is it might have failed because people didn’t want to give up their existing phone, tariff or […]
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Friday, November 16th, 2007
There are so many developer competitions on at the moment. As well as the high profile Android Challenge there’s also UIQ’s Open, BT’s Wi-Fi Challenge and Nokia’s Mobile Rules.
One you may not of heard of is the Adobe/Playyoo contest geared towards Flash Lite game developers.
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Saturday, May 26th, 2007
One of the problems with Flash Lite is that you can’t access many of the phone’s features. Recently, I came across Flyer that extends Flash Lite 2.1 to allow you to use Python on S60. This allows you to…
Take photos with device camera from Flash Lite
Take device screenshots from Flash Lite
Send files over a bluetooth […]
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Wednesday, April 25th, 2007
Sonopia is the ‘Do-it-yourself’ MVNO. You may remember I wondered how programmable the phones were and whether it would be possible to create a Sonopia MVNO differentiated by some kind of mobile application.
Sonopia Customer Service previously told me that only BREW was supported. I have since had an email from the VP Engineering at Sonopia. In actual fact, […]
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Thursday, October 5th, 2006
Just came across the new Google Code Search. It works very much like my popular Symbian Codex and J2ME Codex which I produced about a year ago.
I thought I would see how useful the Google Code Search will be for mobile developers. I typed in ‘extends midlet’ to get all J2ME applications. I got ‘about’ 700 references. Wow. Next […]
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