VIa The Symbian Blog, the following video shows 15 apps open at the same time on the N8 and it handles that pretty well. The panning and zoom in Ovi Maps is fast, images in the photos app load quickly (although they don’t like 12MP shots from the camera), the app switching is painless and the kinetic scrolling in the task manager is smooth. In the real world you hardly have more than 5 apps open, so the N8’s RAM should prove be enough.
At Google I/O Vic Gundotra, Google VP Engineering announced Flash Player 10.1 and Adobe AIR 2.5 running on FroYo.
Flash Mobile Blog said, While today’s announcement is all about Android, our target mobile operating systems for Flash Player also include Windows Phone 7, webOS, Symbian, and BlackBerry. Adobe provides a porting kit and Linux-based reference implementation to Open Screen Project partners to allow them to port Flash Player 10.1 to other platforms. These ports are subject to Adobe certification and must pass our standards for compatibility, performance and usability in order for devices to be marketed as “Includes Adobe Flash Player.”
The Nokia N8 is the first device to be powered by the brand new Symbian^3 platform and Flash Lite 4.0 device, the Nokia N8 will launch with a new breed of camera that promises to capture photos and video to rival dedicated point and shoot cameras.
The Nokia N8 is its 12-megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics and Xenon flash. It features a substantially larger sensor than any ever used in any other Nokia device – even bigger than many found in dedicated cameras. Recently, we caught up with Nokia’s resident camera guru, Damian Dinning, to get the full lowdown on what went into fine-tuning the N8’s camera and video capture skills – you’ll be able to read the full fact-packed story right here on Conversations this week, so stay tuned.
The Nokia N8 also introduces the ability to record high definition videos and edit them with a smart built-in editing suite on the device. Playback quality is just as important, and the 3.5-inch HD capacitive touchscreen is the ideal window for assessing your flicks and footage. There’s also a HDMI connector allowing you to hook the smartphone to your HD TV and share your media with friends and family in superb quality. We wanted to find out more about the benefits of HDMI in the Nokia N8 so we spoke to Paul Wheeler, a software program manager at Nokia, to get the full story – again, be sure to keep an eye out for our full story this later this week.
The Nokia N8 also doubles as a portable entertainment centre. Watch HD quality video with Dolby Digital Plus surround sound and hook into a dedicated Web TV application for access to news and entertainment on the move.
Read the detail Nokia N8 Specifications.
Via Bbiskero, This is a great news for Flash mobile developers since it proves that Nokia's interest for Flash technologies is still high.
The Forum Nokia Online Flash Lite Packager provides Flash developers with a simple and convenient way to package Flash Lite applications into SIS files for installation on Nokia S60 devices. By packaging Flash Lite content in this way, the application is installed as though it is a native Symbian application. The user can then run the application from an icon in the device's Applications menu. In addition, the packager will sign the SIS file with a developer's Symbian Publisher ID. Such signed files can then be Express Signed and submitted for publication in Ovi Store.
“This document provides developers with information on the Forum Nokia Online Flash Lite Packager. The reasons for the creation of the packager are explained and a full description of how to use the packager provided.”
Via Phandroid, Flash 10.1 should be coming to Android sometime in the second half of the year.
Flash 10.1 will require an ARM Cortex-A8 based processor or higher, which rules out all first generation Android phones. The Motorola Droid and Nexus One are the only Andriod phones currently available in the United States that will have enough power to pump out Flash 10.1 content.
Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen said “We have a number of excited partners who are working aggressively with us to bring Flash to their devices, whether they be smartphones as well as handsets, and so companies like Google or RIM or Palm are going to be releasing versions of Flash on smartphones and tablets in the second half of the year.”
Sony Ericsson has released a new article: Make money with Sony Ericsson and PlayNow™ arena
Sony Ericsson’s channels to market, PlayNow™ arena and Fun & Downloads are now open for distribution and sale of Flash content, thanks to our recent simplification of certification requirements which means Flash content does not need to be signed.
Sony Ericsson’s Project Capuchin technology enables you to convert your content in to a Java application (JAD/JAR files). You provide Adobe Flash CS3 or CS4, we provide the rest. Here is the basic procedure:
1. Install the Sony Ericsson Capuchin kit , available for Windows and Mac OS
2. Use the Create Capuchin Application function to turn your content in to JAD/JAR files
3. Submit your JAD/JAR files at submit.sonyericsson.com
4. Within 30 days (typically less) Sony Ericsson will review your application
5. Accepted applications are made available on PlayNow™ arena and/or Fun & Downloads
6. Users buy your application; you make money.
See the video:
Via Scott Janousek, during the the recording eSeminar: Flash Mobile development opportunities on different platforms and new tools, the Adobe divulged Adobe dropped the Flash Lite Distributable Player.
The Distributable Player Solution was intended as a runtime and packaging solution for Flash Lite which allowed content and applications to be packaged in .CAB and .SIS format. It also allowed for distribution of the Flash (Lite) Player updates via Over The Air updates through version checking.
Daily Mobile has posted some new pictures of Nokia 5230. The Nokia 5230 is a S60 5th Edition device with a resistive touch screen and tactile feedback. The device has a 3.2“, bright nHD (640 x 360 pixels and 16:9 aspect ratio) display with homescreen featuring Contacts Bar and media bar. Input methods include full screen QWERTY, alphanumeric keypad and handwrite recognition. Other features include a 2 megapixel camera, Bluetooth 2.0 +EDR, flash Lite 3.0 and MIDP Java 2.1 APIs. Supported WCDMA frequencies depend on the region where the device is available.
The Following is the list of the pictures:
You can also visit the bigger picture from Daily Mobile.
Symbian Guru has post a new Video preview, the video goes quickly through several aspects of the device, showing:
Nokia Conversation has posted a new video, the video takes us through using Google Wave on the N900:
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