Janus Symbian Engine has just gone open source. Janus allows S60 Flash Lite applications to access phone features that aren’t part of Flash Lite. It does this by setting up a local http server which, in turn, accesses the OS.
Open sourcing will make this technique more attractive to companies who previously might not have wanted […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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.

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 […]

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, […]