According to a C-NET article, AT&T may focus on just one or two mobile operating systems in the future. During a talk a the Symbian Parter Event, Roger Smith, director of next-generation services at AT&T, stated that “We want to standardize our platforms on a platform like Symbian that is mature and effective.”
According to a press release from Adobe, Adobe is collaborating with ARM to bring Flash 10 and AIR to the ARM 11 platform. This could bring Flash 10 and AIR to all sorts of consumer level electronic devices including mobile phones, set-top boxes and automotive devices. The processors are expected to be available in second half of 2009, with devices containing the processors coming later.
SEDW posted a news item stating that it will be extending support for its Project Capuchin to its future line of Symbian Foundation based phones. Project Capuchin is a system that enables Flash Lite to access device apis through a Java midlet.
SEDW recently posted a new article by ustwo on how to use the J2ME motion sensor api to feed motion data to a Flash Lite interface through Project Capuchin. The example demonstrates a user inerface that scrolls through news feeds by tilting the phone.
According to a news item at Brighthand, Best Buy will soon be selling unlocked Nokia s60 phones with a T-mobile contract. The article mentions Nokia N96 NAM (North American Edition), Nokia N78 NAM, and Nokia E71 NAM, all of which are Flash Lite 3 and Nokia WRT enabled phones.
According to Brighthand, it looks like momentum is starting around the release of Internet Explorer 6 for windows mobile 6.1. This version of IE supports a pre-installed Flash Lite 3 as an extension of the browser, along with Silverlight. Manufacturers are expected to release devices supporting this version of IE later this year and early 2009.
I recently upgraded my N95 8gb to the latest firmware version, v30.0.018. All Flash Lite screensavers are displaying in landscape mode, and there seems to be no way to change them to portrait mode. This was also a problem in a previous firmware update.
SonyEricsson has announced its second Project Capuchin phone, the G705. This is a Flash Lite 2.0 phone with the Project Capuchin ActionScript api bridge to enable Flash Lite 2.0 to interact with J2ME supported phone services.
Back in July SEDW site released Themes Creator 3.9, which supports Flash Lite 1.1 and 2.x emulation for standby screen screensaver and wallpaper content. Today I downloaded the themes creator to find out what aspects of Flash Lite it can emulate and how it all works.
Mobile Entertainment magazine web site posted a short article about Flash Lite wallpaper and screensaver content from mobivention that makes use of Sony Ericsson accelerometer to change according to handset rotation. This article mentions the idea of using Flash Lite for clocks, and time/date reactive animation.
