Flash Lite - free at last December 6, 2006
Posted by Mads Foli Bjerre in : Mobile, Flash Lite , add a commentGreat news - the Flash Lite player is now available for nada/zip/zilch.
Free availability is one of the things that are needed to get traction for Flash on handsets. More and more phones are preinstalled with Flash Lite, which is essential. But like the Flash equivalent on PC’s, people need to be able to install updated versions when they arrive.
What still bugs me, though, is the process of getting the new Flash Lite player onto your handset. First of all, you need to have an Adobe ID. If you don’t have one, you need to create one.
Second, once you get to the download page, they assume you know what specific flavour of the Symbian operating system your phone is running:
I didn’t. I had to look it up.
After that comes all the usual hassle with downloading, transferring and installing the app on the handset. This HAS to be easier if this “upgrading-the-player-yourself” is ever going to take off.
But if you’re still up for it and your handset supports it, go ahead and get the new, free player: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/devices/
Update: Roger Fischer also notes the annoying install experience.
Nokia N95: El Presidente December 4, 2006
Posted by Mads Foli Bjerre in : Mobile, Gadgets , add a commentOr: This Time I Really Think They Got It Right
I cannot even begin to describe how excited I am by Nokias newest phone — or, as Nokia would like to call it, multimedia mobile: the N95. The reason for my excitement is this:
Everytime Nokia or any other phone manufacturer comes out with a new product, something is always missing. Take the Nokia N73 for example. This is the phone I’m using at the moment. Fantastic device. Does almost everything I want it to do. Almost. I’d like WiFi, GPS and an even better camera. There is always something missing, right? Well… not anymore.
Somehow Nokia has managed to squeeze multiple mucho-desirable features into a device that’s actually smaller than my N73 (how do they do it?):
- They’ve upgraded the camera to 5 Megapixels.
- There’s built-in GPS. Bye-bye old trusty TomTom Go.
- WiFi. Finally I can upload hi-res pictures and video to my moblog at Albino Gorilla without having to pay obscenely expensive data traffic charges.
- There’s 150 Mb of internal memory.
- There’s a gorgeous 2.6 inch QVGA LCD supporting 16 million colors.
- There are dedicated music keys in an ingenious cover sliding design.
- There’s even an ATI gaming chip for smooth 3D gaming graphics
Priced at €550 the N95 will be available in January 2007 in two colors, plum and sand. It isn’t cheap, but rest assured I will get my hands on the N95 when it hits the shelves. And I promise I’ll post my thoughts when I have had some time to play with… err, I mean, use it.
In the meantime, do as I did: Check out some N95 videos on YouTube.
Here’s one more clip with a dude demonstrating the phone (in French, but you get the drift):