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An invite for Ed to Nokia World would be great!

biskero | 28 November, 2006 04:29

Hello,

I was reading this blog post at Ring Nokia about giving a free pass for Ed to Nokia World. Ed is the blogger of E-Series.org. These blogs and in particular Ed are completely dedicated to blogging about Nokia products. I am sure a lot of E61 have been sold because of his blog and a free invite to the Nokia World is win win for Nokia. Anyone?

Also Nokia World setup a blog, which indicates their attention to blogging, so as Ring Nokia stated: "Can someone please contact him and just send him an invite!?"

Thanks
Alessandro

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Flash Lite player, different implementations

biskero | 24 November, 2006 21:45

Flash Lite is been implemented in different ways on different mobile platforms and mobile manufactures.
For example Nokia has decided to use Flash Lite to allow development of standalone applications, games, wallpapers, screensavers and web pages, while other manufactures use Flash Lite for the User Interface, for menus and other content.

In Japan more then 60% of i-mode sites have Flash Lite content from simple animations to games. Very popular are animated ringtones.

So what about the Nokia? Well Nokia decided to have different Flash Lite implementations on the Series 60 and Series 40 platforms. Here is a summary
  • Series 60 3rd  Edition can execute Flash Lite 1.1 content as standalone such as games, applications and animations. Also you can view Flash Lite 1.1 content in the WAP browser.
  • Series 40 3rd Edition FP1 can execute Flash Lite 1.1 content as standalone, screensaver, wallpapers, subLCD and in web pages.
There are also some updates in the upcoming Series 60 3rd Edition FP1 and Series 40 3rd Edition FP2 which have Flash Lite 2 technology. The implementation of the player is similar to the previous implementations.

The Series 60 3rd Edition FP1 will have the possibility to view Flash Lite 2 content into the S60 Browser version 2. This seams a really interesting feature and since Flash Lite 2 supports streaming video, might be really compelling! First mobile phone supporting this Flash Lite implementation is the Nokia N95.
Also the Series 40 3rd Edition FP2 have Flash Lite 2 but some things are different regarding the Flash Lite 2 API. For example the Nokia 5300, which is a Flash Lite 2 enable phone, does not support loading external video using the video API. But it supports video embedded into Flash Lite 2 content. So you can create wallpapers that has embedded video!

If you want experiment developing Flash Lite content check my previous posts regarding how to start developing using Flash Lite. Also remember that there is a Flash Lite contest running until the end of February.

It will be great if the Flash Lite implementation would be consistent across devices and platforms. For example I would like to see Series 60 support all Flash Lite implementations. Also seams that future Series 60 will support Flash Lite animated ringtones.

Alessandro

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Flash Lite 1.1 web page

biskero | 08 November, 2006 01:26

I got some emails and saw some post regarding viewing Flash Lite 1.1 content into a web page using Nokia phones.

First, Nokia WAP browser of Series 40 3rd Edition feature pack 1 and Series 60 3rd Edition phones supports Flash Lite 1.1 content embedded into a web page (not all models supports this features). The S60 Browser (full browser) does not support Flash Lite 1.1. The next version will support Flash Lite 2.0 content. Some people got confused on this. Also check the S60 browser blog for more infos.

If you want to test Flash Lite 1.1 content using the Nokia SDKs you need to install the following:

The latest Series 60 3rd edition SDK does not have Flash Lite 1.1 support (check the release notes). Both these SDK will allow you to test Flash Lite 1.1 content in the emulator. I guess it's a first step before testing on the real device.


As far as Flash Lite 1.1 content you can just use the HTML code generated by the Flash 8 Professional IDE by publishing html such as:

    <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
    <head>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
    <title>Flash Lite 1.1 site</title>
    </head>
    <body bgcolor="#000000">
    <object data="flsite.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="160" height="170" >
    <param name="bgcolor" value="#000000" />
    <param name="loop" value="on" />
    <param name="quality" value="high" />
    </object>
    </body>
    </html>

Now you can create your sample Flash Lite 1.1 site, store it into a web server and access it from the SDK WAP browser or from your Nokia Series 60 3rd Edition or Series 40 3rd Edition Feature Pack 1 phone such as Nokia N91 or Nokia 6125.

By the way, there is a Flash Lite Application Contest organized by the Adobe Mobile and Devices User Groups of Boston, Australia and Brazil and one of the categories is Flash Lite 1.1 sites!!

Alessandro

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