Flash coming to iPhone - Its official

I am very sure that,  this is going to be great news for many of us. You know why??? - Adobe developing Flash for iPhone via SDK

Adobe is in the process of developing its own Flash client for the iPhone, company chief Shantanu Narayen told investment experts during a conference call (registration required). The executive revealed that Adobe has obtained the publicly available Software Development Kit and intends to release a version of the animation plugin through the App Store as soon as the software is completed. Narayen stated that analysis by the company suggested a form of Flash could be developed without requiring special access to Apple’s mobile Safari browser and that it would be an important launch regardless of how it arrives. “We believe Flash is synonymous with the Internet experience, and we are committed to bringing Flash to the iPhone,” the Adobe head noted. “We have evaluated [the SDK] and we think we can develop an iPhone Flash player ourselves.” Read More

Two Big annoucements from Adobe

1)  Flash Lite has Shipped on Over Half a Billion Device - It was only a few years ago that Adobe was passing the 20 million unit shipped milestone and the 100 million mark was a much desirable number to reach but, its 500 million my friend. Its a very very impressive number. Flash Lite shipments have experienced 150% year over year growth and are now delivered on devices from every major handset manufacturer worldwide including Nokia, LG, Motorola, Samsung, Sony Ericsson and many others.

2) Microsoft Licenses Flash Lite 3 and Reader LE for Windows Mobile – Along with this, Adobe also announced that Microsoft has licensed both Flash Lite 3 and Reader LE for inclusion in Windows Mobile devices world wide. Under the terms of this agreement, Windows Mobile OEM’s will ship both Flash Lite 3 and Reader LE with their products world wide.  This is an important win for Adobe and for our developer community and is one more agreement that validates the demand for our technologies in the market.

Read A Developer’s Perspective of this announcement in one of my most respected colleague - Bill Perry’s blog

There is another interesting post at ZDnet - The motives in a nutshell

Read more about both the announcements: Yahoo Finance 

Silverlight is SilverLight… There’s no “Silverlight Lite”

Ewan Spence, from AllAboutSymbian, is attending MIX08 and managed to get a few minutes with Brad Becker, who is the Group Project Manager for the User Experience Platform and Tools Marketing Group at Microsoft for a nice chat about Silverlight, which we announced earlier last week as coming to Nokia’s product lines, including their Symbian S60 handsets.

Notice Brad’s statements that there won’t be a ‘Silverlight Lite’ for mobile devices (may be he wanted to say “…like Adobe’s Flash Lite”). It will be the same for all, though applications will likely need to be recompiled for mobiles. As Brad points out, this works good because developers will be able to take the guts of their application and tweak it specially for the mobile.

First Android Touchscreen Phone

Andy Rubin, the man behind the Android and who is also the Director of Mobile Platforms at Google gave a demo of Android to BBC on a touchscreen phone. Android is still in Alpha but, look at the demo, this guy looks pretty stable. Anyways dont waste time and look at the demo

Demo Video Link

Video Interview of Nigel Clifford, CEO of Symbian

Nigel Clifford, CEO of Symbian, speaks with Bloomberg news at Mobile World Congress about Symbian’s announcement of the 53% jump in Symbian based mobile phone shipments.

Video Link

India adds the Highest number of Mobile Subscribers in January 2008

India, the world’s fastest-growing mobile market, added a record 8.77 million mobile phone connections in January 2008, according to data released by telecom regulator Trai on Friday. Industry sources said the additions in January could be the highest-ever recorded globally. China, the world’s largest telecom market, added 8.42 million subscribers in the month of January, led by a 7-million addition by China Mobile, the country’s dominant GSM operator.

China, the world’s largest telecom market, added 8.42 million subscribers in the month of January, led by a 7-million addition by China Mobile, the country’s dominant GSM operator.

India added a total of 8.77 million mobilephone connections during January, against 8.11 million connections in December 2007. However, wireline connections registered a decline of 0.03 million subscribers to 39.22 million in January. The total number of telephone connections reached 281.62 million at the end of January, against 272.88 million in December 2007. Tele-density increased to 24.63% at the end of January.

Read more in this post of WirelessDuniya

The Nokia Morph Concept

Featured in The Museum of Modern Art “Design and The Elastic Mind” exhibition, the Morph concept device is a bridge between highly advanced technologies and their potential benefits to end-users. This device concept showcases some revolutionary leaps being explored by Nokia Research Center (NRC) in collaboration with the Cambridge Nanoscience Centre (United Kingdom) – nanoscale technologies that will potentially create a world of radically different devices that open up an entirely new spectrum of possibilities.

Morph concept technologies might create fantastic opportunities for mobile devices:

• Newly-enabled flexible and transparent materials blend more seamlessly with the way we live
• Devices become self-cleaning and self-preserving
• Transparent electronics offering an entirely new aesthetic dimension
• Built-in solar absorption might charge a device, whilst batteries become smaller, longer lasting and faster to charge
• Integrated sensors might allow us to learn more about the environment around us, empowering us to make better choices

Read More here

The Future of Internet Search - Mobile Version

This might sound like a bit far from reality but, the point to note is that the combination of technologies used here are already with us. In his own words Petitinvention says, “This is what I wish the internet search will be able to do with a mobile device in the NEAR future. Touch screen, built in camera, scanner, WiFi, google map (hopefully google earth), google search, image search… all in one device. Like this way, when you can see a building through it, it gives you the image search result right on the spot.” I guess by now you have the tiny idea of what we are talking about. Just a picture to show what it is:

Follow the link to read along. Petitinvention - The Future of Internet Search

Mobile World Congress Interviews

If you are interested in seeing video interviews of people from different mobile companies who attended the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona last week, go to this link . This gentleman with the username of servicesmobiles in YouTube has posted some 53 videos of the show and most of them are interviews. I was pretty impressed so just thought of sharing.

Nokia S60 touch UI demo

The much talked about Nokia Touch Screen UI was demonstrated in multiple places in the Mobile World Congress last week. Here is a video showing the demonstration.