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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 database

Future 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!

Adobe expects 1 billion Flash Lite enabled handsets by 2010. Bill Perry from Adobe says:

There’s a steady trend of increasing handsets shipping with Flash technologies pre-installed. This past Wednesday during the mobile & solutions portion of the Adobe financial analyst meeting we shared that by 2010 we expect over 1 billion Flash enabled devices to be in market.

There’s also a lot of other good information and details about Adobe’s mobile and solutions available for you to watch or download.

Mobile-review posted a review of recently announced S60 3rd edition Feature Pack 2, walking on major features briefly with pictures. Flash Lite 2.1 is among features list.

The second update pack, known as Feature Pack 2, for the S60 was officially announced on February, 7 this year – this package brings about a bunch of critical changes that can change the way S60 platform is perceived by consumers.

via Darla

An online seminar from actionscript.it, comparing advantages and disadvantages of Flash Lite and J2ME platforms working on a common application. Seminar is for free (no registration required) on 13th March at 19:00-21:00. No time zone is specified, but most probably it’s UTC+1 (Italy). Check related post for details.

Meeting Agenda:

- Quick introduction to Flash Lite and J2ME
- Develop a game in Flash Lite e J2ME
- How to develop a network-oriented application considering the security issues in Flash Lite and J2ME
- Workflow to follow in order to produce an useful user interface for mobile

via Leonardo

Leonardo announced availability of his Flash Lite WriteFile tool for S60 2nd and 3rd edition devices. Well done!

WriteFile is a Symbian.c++ tool that gives to mobile flash developers the capability of saving text files on Symbian devices. New version is fully compatible with both S60 2nd and 3rd edition flash-enabled phones and works great with Flash Lite 1.1, 2.0, 2.1 embedded players. WriteFile can be used for save games, for saving user’s options configuration or anything you want

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.”

JupiterWeb, a division of Jupitermedia Corporation, today announced the winners of Developer.com product of the year 2007 contest. Flash Lite 2 is the winner of wireless/mobile development tool or add-in! Congratulations!

Each year Developer.com has its Product of the Year contest. We ask readers to nominate then vote on the technologies, tools, and programs that they think are the best in their field. Last year we said that the contest’s results were the most clear-cut we had ever seen. This year’s results were even more clear-cut than ever. In the main category of Technology, the winner dominated the category with 61% of the votes. Tools such as Apache Ant, which won Development Utility of the year, and Adobe Flash Lite 2, which won Wireless/Mobile development tool of the year, both won by some of the widest margins we’ve ever seen.

Surprisingly we had a shift in brand alliance, four repeat winners, and a winner in the Wireless/Mobile Development Tool or Add-in category that we never expected.

Winners of other categories are:

* Technology of the Year - Mozilla’s - AJAX
* Framework of the Year - Ruby on Rails
* Development Tool of the Year - IBM(R) WebSphere(R) Studio
* Development Utility of the Year - Apache Ant
* Web Service Product of the Year - Google(TM) Maps APIs
* Wireless/Mobile Development Tool or Add-in of the Year - Adobe(R) Flash(R) Lite(TM) 2
* Database Tool or Add-in of the Year - Microsoft(R) SQL Server(TM) 2005
* Java Tool/ Add-in of the Year - IBM WebSphere Application Server
* JSR (Java Specification Request) of the Year - JSR 244: Java(TM) Platform Enterprise Ed.5 (Java EE 5.0)
* .NET Tool/Add-in of the Year - Microsoft AJAX Library, ASP.NET AJAX Control Extensions and ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit (collectively “Atlas”)
* Open Source Tool of the Year - IBM WebSphere Application Server Community Edition

Here is a new article from Scott: Working with Nokia Series 40 with Flash Lite content.

By the end of Part 1, you will be acquainted more with Flash Lite 1.1 as it coexists on Series 40 handsets. Here I provide a quick overview of Flash Lite for Series 40 devices. This includes capabilities, limitations, as well as some overall considerations to make when developing content for the Series 40 Platform.

In subsequent articles, you’ll learn how to design, develop, and deploy Flash Lite 1.1 wallpapers, screen savers, as well as sub-LCD content for Nokia Series 40 devices.

There is a nice article about Flash Lite, posted by Denise at globeandmail : Hold the phone, Flash is coming!

Software is revolutionizing cell handsets in Asia and Europe, adding fanciful graphics and menus.  Dial a mobile phone subscriber in Japan and your call could set off a display of onscreen fireworks. When signal strength is low, clouds rolls into the picture. A missed call might cause a hot-air balloon to fly across the screen. And when the sun sets, an image of the city skyline changes from daytime to night.

Lots of good news from Adobe today.

Flash Lite 2.1 player is available for S60 and Windows Mobile 5.0 devices for free!

Flash 2.1 is based on Flash 7 and has following features:

• XML Sockets
• Inline text support
• Dynamic XML data
• Device video playback
• Persistent data
• Powerful and dynamic media
• Text enhancements
• Action Script 2.0 support
• Synchronized device sound
• Compressed SWFs

And other points mentioned by Bill :

• These new players are not IMEI locked, meaning you don’t have to provide your handsets serial number before downloading the installer.
• As part of the EULA you agree to not redistribute the installer.
• This is only the standalone player; no other content type (wallpaper for example) is supported in this player.

Read Flash Lite Open OS FAQ if you have further questions.

via Bill