SE on a winner with Walkman phones
From IT News: It seems Sony Erricson has done better than expected recently, with mobile sales up and 2006 looking solid. The Walkman range of phones have been a winner for the handset manufacturer, with the range getting more upgrades in the near future (3G versions, etc). Maybe an improved port of Flash Lite ... hmmm ? The SE phones had a browser based port for some time, but then it disappeared from some handsets. Would love to see a more reliable commitment from SE to Flash Lite, especially on these music-orientated handsets. Imagine some of the cool UI you could build around music players ... ahh .. dare to dream.
posted by Dale Rankine @ 10:11 AM
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Ciao Dale,
that's an interesting finding. I guess mobile muisic is taking the lead !
About Flash Lite, I think we need to look at Flash Lite browser type application since most of SE have FL in the browser and the new nokia from this week has the same implementation.
Alessandro
The only issue I have is that people don't really recognize Flash Lite (at least europeans). I don't know even a single person among my non-dev friends who can tell that Flash Lite is a "small" Flash for mobiles. They can't even tell what Java is, except that "it's for games" - so how are they supposed to recognize FL? And since there is no demand from the user side - why should SE care about FL?
Anyway - I've been playing with my N6680 and FL2 for a week and I love it, it's alomst as fun as programming with normal flash. I hope other devs will follow.
Well Jarek the whole idea is that really the consumer doesn't need to know what the content is made in (Java, Flash, etc), just that works on their phone. SE won't care about FL though as a platform until either Adobe help them realise that there's a million potentil developers out there for FL content, or when another handset manufacturer (let's say Nokai) get it going to the masses, and they see the quality and growth of FL content on their competitor's products.
I think SE do care about Flash Lite, part of me thinks that they have disabled FL as wallpaper in certain models just because the performance is so bad. And they do kind of get it, at least they are starting to get it. I imagine the flurry of content that is set to swarm around Nokias will give them a final insight :) At least they are currently using FL to create user changable UIs with some phones but this functionality has not yet been opened up to developers.
Agreed that users dont need to know at all what the format is - it really doesnt matter, especially when you condsider a browser market, the only reason web users know what Flash is, is because they are asked to install the Flash Player in their browser. This obviously wont be happened with phones, thankfully.
I think if they use FL in the p990 then performance shouldnt be a problem - if it is there is something seriously wrong. Also expect to see some new SE phones announced at 3GSM - will be interesting to see how much they make of any FL element or not.
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