This year The Nokia Developer Summit and Nokia World will take place at ExCeL London, Sept 14-15. Nokia will run both events bringing together people from every part of the global mobile community for an even richer event, with insights into every aspect of the mobile industry.
This is a great opportunity for every mobile developer. I'll attend both events thanks to Forum Nokia! See you there.
(via AllAboutSymbian) - Nokia today introduced their first Symbian^3 device, the Nokia N8.
The Nokia N8 is a powerful combination of internet, video, photos, music, maps with Symbian^3 operating system. With a large capacitive touch screen supporting pinch to zoom, social networking integration, a Carl Zeiss 12 megapixel camera with wide-angle lens and Xenon flash, shooting 720p HD video, On Demand WebTV, HDMI connectivity and USB OTG, you can create, discover and share a world of creativity. Additionally, for the software developers, the device includes Qt 4.6.2, Java MIDP 2.1 and Flash Lite 4.0.
You can read full device details here or take a look to the launch event website.
(via MobileCrunch) - The first videos of Symbian 4 have just been released for public consumption:
And I must agree with the following comment:
The first videos of Symbian^4 have just been released for public consumption, and we can’t help but notice that they seem very.. uninspired. Actually, perhaps that’s inaccurate. They’re very inspired. Directly inspired. By the competition.
Last Friday, Adobe and Condé Nast unveiled a new digital magazine experience based on WIRED magazine at the TED conference in Long Beach, California. Built on Adobe AIR and developed with Condé Nast, the tablet prototype we showed during the TED "Play" session illustrates the possibilities for magazine publishers to reach readers in new ways. Really cool UX. Enjoy the video below.
Apple today announced the long awaited iPad! A great device and a completely new world for devices developers:
The best way to experience the web, email, photos, and video. Hands down. Imagine being able to page through websites, write an email, flick through photos, or watch a movie. All on a big, beautiful, Multi-Touch screen. With just the touch of a finger. Read all details here.
As expected Adobe announced the upcoming support (Packager for iPhone) for the increased screen size and resolution of the iPad. Exciting! Let's wait further news on the topic.
Forum Nokia is hosting a interesting two-session webinar about User Experience and Design Resources on January 28th.
What is user experience, anyways? Arabella David will give you the basics of what user experience is, and how elements of it can be used in developing an easier to use, more efficient application. We will review the free resources available online, the evaluations you can purchase for your app, and events where you can sit down face to face with a user experience specialist and immediately improve your app.
January 28th
Session 1 1pm London | 3pm Helsinki. Register here.
Session 2 11am San Francisco | 2pm New York. Register here.
Symbian Foundation revealed some details about the new Symbian UI and made available an open discussion to the community for questions, comments, suggestions, requests, and generally anything that relates to this proposal. The corresponding Major Contribution Proposals are Orbit and Direct UI. This simple mockup reminds me something like Android and its homescreen widgets. Let's see what will happen... More info below:
- Orbit: http://developer.symbian.org/wiki/index.php/Prop/Orbit#Current_drafts
- Direct UI: http://developer.symbian.org/wiki/in...Prop/Direct_UI
- Symbian UI Concept Proposal submitted by Nokia on 14 January 2010: http://developer.symbian.org/wiki/im...roposal_v2.doc
(via Mark) - Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, given the huge investments with the Open Screen Project, will be Adobe's most important event in the mobile calendar. There will be a lot of interest for the launch of Flash Player 10.1 and iPhone native apps with Flash and Adobe AIR®. For this reason Adobe is giving away upon request complimentary passes to the Mobile World Congress exhibition halls. The free passes are limited to two per company on a first-come, first-served basis. Send an email to mwcstaff@adobe.com with your name, company name, and email address.
Join us at Mobile World Congress 2010, where Adobe and partners of the Open Screen Project will preview some of the innovations enabled by the Adobe® Flash® Player runtime for smartphones, smartbooks, and netbooks running popular entertainment, gaming, and video websites. In 2010, more devices will come to market supporting Adobe Flash Player and a new class of application known as "contextual applications." Experience firsthand contextual applications from leading brands that adapt presentation and performance to different application contexts — including various operating systems, platforms, and devices — and user personalization.
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