Leonardo announced that they decided to make Janus Engine open source. Nice!
Janus Symbian Engine, the custom made extension that will help you improve Flash Lite functionalities, has become an open source project!
Flash Lite and Java (JAR) packaging method made available by Felipe Andrade and Alessandro Pace!
With Jarpa, installable Flash Lite content can finally be delivered on different platforms!
Jarpa is a free of charge software solution under terms of Apache Software License.
Its also an open-source project, they are looking for contributors to join!
Awesome!! Great work guys. We wish you luck :)
Felipe is presenting his new project Flyer; Python S60 open source framework for Flash Lite developers in Boston Adobe Mobile and Devices User Group. It’s on April 26th at 12PM EST. You have to join to user group in order to participate in the seminar. More information is here.
Felipe announced a new Python for S60 framework for Flash Lite developers: Flyer!
Flyer is based on the Flash Lite 2.1 integration with Python for S60 and contains the following features:
- Take photos with device camera from Flash Lite
- Take device screenshots from Flash Lite
- Send files over a bluetooth connection from Flash Lite
- Get the contact entries in the default device databaseFuture releases (May, 2007)
- Sound recording and playback
- File upload to a remote server
- GPS module to display latitude, longitude, satellite count, and time
- Record device screen!
Late November, we posted a new completely integrated open source mobile platform; OpenMoko and Neo1973. Today we received a comment about the latest specs of Neo1973 via their message board. It was impressive, now with Bluetooth support, it looks even better!
I personally am up for freedom on my device. Although I support out-of-the-box configurations to ease introduction phase and global standardization, I should have the right to choose how to use the device I own. I actually don’t like the idea that someone else decides what is the best for me and limits my freedom. Therefore, Neo1973 looks very attractive to me. I don’t know how the device will be, or if it will be as good as it sounds; but that’s a good idea and sooner or later good ideas become real.
There are couple of articles comparing Neo1973 and iPhone in USNews, gizmodo and a also feature comparison. It’s told first devices will be out in February and there are no major problems, but I couldn’t find where to buy one.
Here is the latest specs of the standard kit:
* 120.7 x 62 x 18.5 (mm)
* 2.8″ VGA (480×640) TFT Screen
* Samsung s3c2410 SoC @ 266 MHz
* Global Locate AGPS chip
* Ti GPRS (2.5G not EDGE)
* Unpowered USB 1.1
* Touchscreen
* micro-sd slot
* 2.5mm audio jack
* 2 additional buttons
* 1200 mAh battery (charged over USB)
* 128 MB SDRAM
* 64 MB NAND Flash
* Bluetooth (yes bluetooth!)
There are two more kits that will be available (in addition to the standard kit): A “Car Kit†and a “Hacker’s Lunchbox.â€
That’s amazing! Partnering FIC, OpenMoko announced the immediate availability of a completely integrated open source mobile communications platform! Availability also coincides with the unveiling of FIC Neo1973 smartphone, which utilizes OpenMoko and will be available in January 2007! Check press release and screenshots here.
What that means? Think that you have a smartphone, fully customizable and hackable as a PC with thousands of software and less than 350$! As built on Linux kernel, OpenMoko offers all power of open source on mobile devices. Developers can easily(?) start developing software and offering services. Furthermore, Neo1973 also suuports dual OS and can run Windows Mobile. Check also linuxdevices’ post.
From the web site, FIC’s device looks like it has promising specifications:
Hardware
Software
Looking forward:)
