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Sunday, July 09, 2006
Nokia S60: Testing Flash Lite Applications
Nokia S60 Mobile Phones
One cool thing about Flash Lite is how many new handsets that are shipping with the 1.1 player pre-installed. Part of my responsibilities at Adobe is to test existing Flash Lite 1.1 content on new mobile phones, create new content and applications and to share that information with the mobile developer community.

These best practices will soon be provided via white papers, technical articles and sample files. Some of the things that we're documenting include:
  • Various screen resolutions (176x208, 240x320, 352x416)
  • Screen orientation (portrait vs landscape)
  • Location of soft keys
  • Consistent API support
  • Flash content types supported
  • Optimization techniques for various media (images, audio, video)
Currently I'm testing on the following Nokia S60 mobile phones: N90, N71, E61, N91, N80, E70, N72, and E60.

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Hi Bill
Thanks as ever for the blogs, if you are interested I am testing on Nokia 3250, a Nokia 6233 and a Sony Ericsson 600i, I have a 6630 runing FL2, I hope to get another Sony Ericsson soon possibly the W330i. Would you be interested in swapping content to test. I have a really nice little app that I created for the BBC plus lots of other stuff . I am concentrating on FL1.1 only
Cheers
Alistair Gillan

By Anonymous Alistair Gillan , at Mon Jul 10, 02:05:00 AM PDT  

guys, just a quick, may be stupid question. with flash lite, will people be able to watch youtube content on it? say if you download the swf file onto your mobile, can the player work with that? thanks!

hc

By Anonymous Anonymous , at Wed Aug 02, 09:49:00 PM PDT  

You can go on the youtube.com website but to see the flash video it's depend about which player you have. Because On Youtube they use Flash Player 7 or 8 and on your mobile you use Flash lite 1.1. I try whith a nokia E61. And flash lite 1.1 isn't really adapt for video, but whith Flash lite 2 it's now possible. Maybe it's working whith a pocket pc mobile because it's accept flash player 6.

I have a question as well, somebody know when will we see FL2 directly integrate in the mobile ?
thanks

Gildas

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By Blogger jstevenson06 , at Tue Aug 08, 07:45:00 AM PDT  

I can't believe devices are still shipping with FL 1.1? Surely that is dated technology and all new devices should be shipping with FL 2.0?

Is there anywhere to get stats on the number of devices in different territories shipping with FL 2.0 either pre-installed or installed by the operator?

By Anonymous Pixelthis , at Wed Aug 09, 09:00:00 PM PDT  

What's NOT cool is that you cannot view streamed flash video on the new S60 V3 phones. In fact, I haven't found a way to get ANY video stream of any description to work on E61 or N80. Anyone have any ideas?

By Anonymous Anonymous , at Tue Aug 22, 11:33:00 AM PDT  

that's correct. Video is only supported in FL2.0 and the handsets shipping from Nokia have FL1.1 pre-installed.

By Blogger Bill , at Tue Aug 22, 04:55:00 PM PDT  

Hi Bill
Is there a way to install FL2.0 Player on a brand new N91 before the update S60 3rd Feature Pack 1?
Thank you Jean A. Cloutier

By Anonymous Anonymous , at Wed Sep 13, 02:27:00 AM PDT  

Hi Bill,
I have a Nokia E61. I can not open my website on it as it requires Flash 6.0, is there any way so that I can open this website. The website is www.paulropp.com , would appreciate your help

By Anonymous Anonymous , at Fri Sep 22, 04:11:00 AM PDT  

1) Right now we don't have any FL2.0 players for Nokia S60 3rd edition devices.
2) The Nokia E61 has FL1.1 pre-installed and you can view SWF content in the services web browser on that phone. Keep in mind that FL1.1 is based on FP4 so any SWF content that's published as Flash 5 or higher will not show up.

By Blogger Bill , at Sat Sep 23, 02:42:00 PM PDT  

Do you know if/when Flash Lite 2.1 player may be avaliable for download? I see that it is downloadable now from the Adobe store for $9.95 but it doesn’t list the phones I use as supported E series Nokia’s.

Will the 2.1 player ever be downloadable for free? Any info that you can provide would be greatly appreciated. Are cell phone manufacturers going to allow updating of their devices to FL2.1? Thanks kindly, Dave

By Blogger Mr. McCristall , at Sun Oct 29, 10:45:00 PM PST  

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