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An interesting subject I came across at Paul’s Nokia Forum blog. Many interesing ideas like RoofShout. Check it out here.

A new development competition from Nokia, with a prize of their brand new multimedia computer N95. There are 3 main categories: Travel, entertainment and productivity. Submissions can be developed by C++, J2ME and yes: Flash Lite, for Symbian OS 9.1. There has to be at least a working prototype until 30th October 2006. You give almost full license to Nokia for the submissions and Nokia gives you a brand new N95 and own profile section on NSeries.com, including link to your website. Nokia also promises to provide assistance with development and testing for selected applications.

Follow the link and click on “Developers Competition” from the menu below.

Note : Later noticed that, if it’s your first time, it comes up with region selection. So a possible path to information can be : Select Europe region -> Developers competition from the menu below (or win N95) -> “The Lab” -> First of three -> Competition guidelines. Sorry, but this is the only way I could find. Great interface, but hard to give links. Let me know if there is a better link.

Miikka from Aniway posts second part of his Flash Lite developer categorization series: “No Money Involved”. Once again interesting and quite realistic approach. Next part is “Developer with funding”. Thanks Miikka for sharing his experience!

It’s been some time that I am trying to decide the most convenient way to present my FlashLite content. There seems to be 2 primary choices: A bare SWF or an installation package.

To present the product as a SWF file only, is not a very preferable way personally. Although it is simple, it is not secure, not formal, and inefficient; if there are other resource files. However, installation package does not seem to be a great solution also. We are always proud that FlashLite content can be made compatible for many devices without much effort. That might be reasonable, considering the meaning of porting for other platforms (i.e Java Mobile and Symbian). However, how about the portability of installers? Most common one is SIS file; however, if we create a SIS file, unless we show some extra effort and money, it will not be S60 3rd edition compatible. Furthermore, it will not be supported by other platforms than Symbian, and even there will be difficulties among Symbian series (S40, S60…).

So, what could be a good solution for that? There is already a problem of FlashLite supported devices in market, penetration is not that high. If we also limit that by our installers, how will it be possible to distribute our content to widest possible devices? Should we start thinking about all FlashLite enabled devices and try to prepare an installation system seperately for each group?

Meantime, I got lazy, and checked if there are some easy solutions to create my SIS package for my FlashLite content. Here I found this tutorial. Enjoy!

This tutorial will demonstrate how to create a nice packaged Symbian application (with personalized icon in smartphone’s menu) that simply starts the .swf of our Flash project, and then exit. On the web, there are many tutorials about packaging all ours files in a Symbian OS installation file (.sis), but no one that tell us how to “launch” a Flash Lite application.

Nokia decides to give names, instead of numbers to their new phone models.

What you will see coming from us in the future is not just a numbering system, you are going to start to see names that carry a meaning and are important to consumers.

No details are given about models or time. However, seems like Nokia is inspired by the success of Motorola’s RAZR and LG’s chocolate. Nokia also admits that they have been late to come up with thin models.

It’s good that Nokia is aware of the situation and trying to come up with new ideas. I am now wondering what kind of names and sequences we will see. Engadget is up for Finnish city names (actually I would be up to have a model called Oulu, however doesn’t seem to be easy to pronounce).

What is your idea? What would be Nokia’s first named model? Let’s be creative!

via Engadget

Aniway keeps on going for great posts series. Here is their new post categorizing FlashLite developer types. First part is “The Lone Wolf” and new one “No Money Involved” is coming up soon. They are experienced in the market, so their approach is quite realistic. You may find something for yourself or to add.