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Category: Series 40

Supernovas 7210 and 7610

Last week Nokia announced four new Series 40 devices : Supernova 7210 Supernova 7310 Supernova 7510 Supernova 7610 After Bill Perry from Adobe asked me about the details of the new 7210 and 7610 devices, I realized that our devices specs are missing that...

Series 40

6131 NFC supports RFID tasg, not VisualTags

This is likely old news for some people, but after finding this out myself only recently through this thread on the FN Discusion boards, I thought a wider notification is in place to reduce further confusion. Even though the SDK for Nokia 6131 NFC , contains the full Javadoc for...

Java, Series 40

Content Handler API on Series 40

Some people have likely already noticed that Content Handler API ( JSR-211 ) is listed in the device specs for a couple announced Series 40 phones. Namely 6500 Classic and 6500 Slide , which should be out during the third quarter of this year. The inclusion of CHAPI is not a typo. This...

Java, Series 40

Some comments on Series 40 5th Edition SDK

The Series 40 5th Edition SDK (Java ME, of course, and Flash Lite 2.1) is finally out. Yes, and in case you were wondering, we skipped the 4th edition. A couple of comments. This SDK supports the JSR-248 Subset plus a couple of additional APIs, including JSR-177 (APDU and...

Flash, Java, Series 40

Friday ramblings: Battery covers and SIM card holders

There are almost as many battery cover lock mechanisms and SIM card holder mechanisms in Nokia phones as there are different phone models. I might be exaggerating a little, but still the variety is astounding. As I have to change SIM cards between phones almost daily (and sometimes even more...

General, S60, Series 40

Notes for Java developers targeting new Series 40 entry-level phones

Nokia announced seven entry-level phones today. Java applications can installed on three of those seven phones. The model numbers of those Series 40 phones are 2630 , 2660 and 2760 .    The set of Java APIs on those low-end phones differ a little from the mainstream Series 40...

Java, Series 40

Checking out the API access settings on Nokia devices

I have touched the security settings of operator branded phones on this blog in the past ( China Unicom , Sprint , Hucthinson 3G , T-Mobile U.S. and AT&T/Cingular ). However I have been pretty light on details about the API access settings on generic (non-branded phones). Time to change...

Java, S60, Series 40

Installing MIDlets on Series 40 and S60

The MIDP specification allows quite a lot of variance in the installation procedure of MIDlets. The spec basically only states what the AMS (Application Management System) needs to take care of but not how it should be taken care of.  So it is no wonder that installing MIDlets on Series...

Java, S60, Series 40

Series 40 and network configuration

Once again I got inspiration from FN Discussion boards after reading for umpteenth time about Series 40 network configuration issues for MIDlets.   There is a technical note on this , which tackles this issue pretty nicely, but I still would like to write a detailed explanation on...

Java, Series 40

MIDlets, System.out, and Series 40 phones

There is a document on Forum Nokia web site describing how to redirect the System.out and System.err on newer S60 phones. I dawned only recently to me that this similar functionality is quite easy to achieve on Series 40 phones.   By "debug" I simply mean here that one can...

Java, Series 40

AMMS and Nokia devices

Following last week's SATSA API update, I thought an update of the AMMS capabilities of Nokia devices is in order too, as the implementations are not similar on Series 40 and are only partial on S60 devices. Advanced Multimedia Supplements API (JSR-234) is a new API on Nokia devices....

Java, S60, Series 40

SATSA API on Nokia devices

SATSA API (JSR-177) has four optional packages: APDU, CRYPTO, JCRMI, and PKI. The device manufacturers have so far been able to choose which ones to implement. In the future there is a little less flexibility in here, because Mobile Software Architecture specification ( JSR-248, MSA ), defines...

Java, S60, Series 40

Series 40 3rd Edition Feature Pack 1 - devices

Some of you might have noticed that SDK for Series 40 3rd Edition Feature Pack 1 was just released (today, to be more exact). There are a bunch of new features on this SDK including JAXP support (JSR-172, Web Services), SVG (JSR-226), MMS (JSR-205) + a number of other enhancements (including...

Java, Series 40

A bunch of new Nokia phones

Monday was a busy news day for Nokia. Besides a "small" announcement of Nokia Networks merging with Siemens infra business unit , there were a number of interesting announcements in Nokia Connection held in Singapore. Five new devices were announced, four of which are Series 40 3rd...

Series 40

 
 
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