Java ME and Flash Lite expert in Forum Nokia Americas, Mountain View. Besides mobile technologies, interested in HCI and the use of technology in sports.
Category: General
There are some useful new documents (like 10 energy saving tips ) and a whole section on FN.com reserved for power management of mobile phones from application developer perspective. In addition to the documentation there are some tools available (well, they have been available for some time...
Found some extra time to listen to one of Phil's S60 podcasts ( Podcast #28 ). The most recent one is an interview of Tommi Sihvola, one of the inventors of Widsets . (Quick summary: Widsets are mobile widgets that enable anyone to create, publish and share internet content to be accessed on...
I am trying to broaden my horizons a little and hence I looking for suggestions about good blogs around a variety of mobile topics. So I would like to hear from you which mobile development related blogs are you reading? I listed a few topics in the title of this post (Symbian/S60, Java ME, and...
I know the Forum Nokia TechDay in Miami announcement has been circulated to most of you guys through other mediums, but I think none of them has yet used the main selling point of the event.
In case you are contemplating between attending either the Miami or Palo Alto event , choose...
As I pointed out earlier , the Forum Nokia Known Issues articles have been transferred to our Wiki platform. Some of you have also noticed that we are inviting you to submit new known issues through the Wiki interface. At least there are already 4 Java ME issues submitted.
These new...
I am late in jumping on the bandwagon, but finally I started the installation of Flash CS3 as part of the Design Premium package (contains InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Flash Professional, Dreamweaver, and Acrobat Professional). I should have thought twice before starting the...
In case you have not noticed, our known issues documentation has been moved to our Wiki platform. Unlike other Wiki pages, these pages cannot be edited, but you can add comments in them:
"All official Forum Nokia knowledge base articles will be published under the username Forum...
It is soon time for one of the main UI academic conferences, UIST . This time I was reminded of this conference when I received a link to a demo of LucidTouch . This technology by researchers from Microsoft Research, Mitsubishi Research, and University of Toronto provides a nice 10-finger...
S60 blogs note here and there that S60 has added a feature wishlist on their site. This is in addition to the S60 application wishlist they have had for some time already. The system allows users to vote for the features, currently there is not much votes cast yet, but maybe after a few...
Waiting at the airport has been the theme of this past week. On Sunday I was waiting for a thunderstorm to pass over Denver airport, yesterday I waited at Chicago O'Hare for the mechanics to fix the plane, and today I am waiting in Munich, as I missed my connecting flight to Helsinki (thanks,...
At least here in U.S. it has been hard to avoid news articles about the FCC's decision of adding some extra rules for the forthcoming auction of the wireless spectrum, which will be vacated as the television broadcasters move from analog to digital signals. In case anyone missed this piece...
Related to my earlier entry on mobile-ready testing sites , ready.mobi has announced that it has a beta-version of it's service available , which will not only test one page at a time, but the whole site with one click (and the testing is of course how mobile friendly your Web site is)....
Biskero points out to an article about Web apps developed mainly iPhone in mind, but which also work great on the OSS Web Browser running on S60 phones (starting form 3rd Edition). The natural reason being that the browsers on iPhone and S60 phones are based on same WebCore components.
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I receive email questions from discussion boards (through my screen name) every now and then. As the system is set up so that I cannot respond to you if you do not allow messages through the discussion boards (yes, this needs to be fixed somehow), I have not been able to answer to most of...
We just recently introduced a new mobile developer offering named Launchpad , which is really concentrating on providing technical benefits for the mobile developers. By technical benefits I mean discounts for tools, early access to SDKs/roadmaps/etc (the same way as FN PRO),...