NPR is featuring stories on cell phones this week. So far they have stories on the role of Cell phones in India, the state of mobile internet in the US compared to Japan and Europe, an overview of the FFC auction in January and some cultural stories.

NPR Technology series on cell phones.

Following on the Nokia Flash lite sound article, I wanted to mention another Flash Lite 1.1 sound article I wrote for Sony Ericsson developer site earlier this year, in case some were not aware of it. The Nokia and SE articles are a little different, with the SE article focusing on MIDI device sound and featuring a case study for using MIDI sound in a simple Flash Lite 1.1 game. Read the article, Getting Started with Sound in Flash Lite 1.1 for more information.

Forum Nokia published my first article on sound for Flash Lite, focusing on Flash Lite 1.1 issues. The 28 page article, Flash Lite 1.1: Sound for Nokia S60 and Series 40 Devices, covers Device Sound and Native audio issues, techniques synchronizing MIDI sound and animation, emulating device sound and many other topics. I included examples to demonstrate concepts from the article. I am finishing a version for Flash Lite 2.0 which hopefully will be available early in 2008.

Here is the second part of my series on issues related to creating Flash Lite screensaver/wallpaper. Previously I wrote about the Sony Ericsson platform. This time I am sharing my observations on the Nokia series 40 platform, probably the most popular device family amongst developers, for Flash Lite screensaver/wallpaper content.

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T-mobile USA site is now listing the Nokia 6263 phone. According to a mobile burn review, it seems the 6263 is the USA version of the Nokia 6267, which is a series 40 5th edition phone supporting Flash Lite 2.1.

For some reason it is not yet listed on the Nokia developer site. Allesandro posted about this earlier in December.

According to DAPreview, a beta firmware update (FW3.53b) for the Cowon D5 PMP adds support for custom Flash Lite UI themes. This is the second PMP device on the market (that I know of), the other being iRiver CLIX, to support Flash Lite theming.

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