Archive of posts filed under the Series 40 category.

Top 12 OVI Store countries and downloads per country by devices

Here is an interesting post on the Forum Nokia Blogs with some information about top country and devices by downloads:
Top 12 Ovi Store Countries (in alphabetical  order): China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Turkey, United Kingdom, Vietnam.
Downloads per country by devices in terms of Ovi Store traffic by [...]

AAS Insight 114 podcast

Via AllAboutSymbian, the AAS Insight 114 podcast is available:

Nokia launches Nokia E5 and Nokia C6 – comparing with older devices, EDoF camera nitty-gritty feature.
Firmware updates for the Nokia N86, E71, E66 and E63.
Sports Tracker released on Ovi Store
Sony Ericsson Q1 2010 results
1 million Ovi Downloads for Numo Solutions

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FlashLite4Nokia.com WRT application available in OVI Store

You can now download the FlashLite4Nokia.com WRT application for this blog from OVI Store.

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OVI AppWizard rocks !!!

Yesterday Dale posted an interesting news about OVI AppWizard, a new service from Nokia OVI Publisher to create apps for the OVI Store. The idea is pretty simple. If you have a blog or site with an rss feed, the OVI AppWizard, takes your feed and creates a customized mobile application.
I asked yestarday to get [...]

Ovi Publisher guide updated, some surprises!

Via Bill, the Ovi Publisher guide was updated. A note that the OMA DRM Forward Lock that was supported before, now it’s not:
“WRT, Widgets are not supported. Java applications and *.NFL files for S40 devices are not supported.”
Here is a discussion on the OVI Publisher forum, which seems to explain that at least one device [...]

Nokia software strategy, Flash Lite/Flash in the roadmap

Here is an interesting white paper from Nokia about their software strategy. Forum Nokia reaches 4 millions users
“We are also continuing to support other development environments: Series 40 supports Adobe Flash Lite 3.1; Symbian also offers Java ME, Flash Lite 3.1 and Microsoft Silverlight; Maemo offers support for Adobe Flash 9.4. We also expect to [...]

OVI Store support for .pip file format, request

I posted a question/request to the OVI Publisher discussion forum regarding the support of the .pip file format to protect content installed via a .sis file.
I sent an email as suggested from the OVI support team and waiting for an answer.
Also for anyone who published content on OVI Store via nfl packaging for S40, check [...]

OVI Promotion tools

The OVI Promotion tool allows you to create banners for your content that is in the OVI Store.
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“The Forum Nokia Online packager project is currently on hold” !!!

It’s been several weeks (maybe months) that the Forum Nokia online packager for Flash Lite it’s offline. I know there are several developers and companies who are looking for information and having issues on distributing their content in the Nokia OVI Store.
Hopefully we will get more information during the Mobile World Congress 2010 and maybe [...]

Nokia 6303i classic announced

Via Nokia Conversation, Nokia announced a new model: Nokia 6303i Classic. It should be a Flash Lite 3.0 enabled phone.

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Ovi Store 1M downloads/day

Via Mobile Entertinement, looks like that the Nokia OVI Store is getting 1Million downloads per day and it’s accelerating. Also an OVI Store 2.0 it is in development for the first half of 2010.
“We’re doing just under one million downloads a day, and our download numbers are growing 100% month-on-month”.

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OVI Store: Tic Tac Toe Christmas game

Via Biskero, Tic Tac Toe Christmas game for the upcoming Holidays is now available on the OVI Store.

“Tic Tac Toe Christmas classic game. Get into the Holidays spirit. Play against your phone from 4 different levels: EASY, NORMAL, EXPERT and CHAMPION. The game keeps the score for You, the Phone and Draw.”
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Nokia masterplan for 2010

Via AllAboutSymbian and IntoMobile, Nokia is sharing information for 2010 roadmap.

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Flash Lite tutorials: Transitions

Forum Nokia has posted a great resource with documentation and code example: Transitions
“This example application demonstrates simple transition effects and their use cases. The application is compatible with all devices supporting Flash Lite 2.x and higher (S60 3rd Edition, FP1 and newer, Series 40 3rd Edition FP2 and higher) but is optimised for touch UI. [...]

Article correction: Flash Lite content with OMA DRM 1.0

Today Philippe contacted me regarding an issue he faced with Flash Lite and DRM. He was following my article on Forum Nokia Wiki to create a OMA DRM 1.0 Forward Lock Flash Lite file.
Using the NMIT tool from Nokia is possible to apply OMA DRM 1.0 to a Flash Lite (swf) file, but the tool [...]

Tic Tac Toe Classic available on OVI Store

Via Kero Mobile blog, the Flash Lite game Tic Tac Toe Classic is now available from OVI Store.

“Tic Tac Toe, a classic game. Play against your phone from 4 different levels: EASY, NORMAL, EXPERT and CHAMPION. The game keeps the score for You, the Phone and Draw.”
Tic Tac Toe Classic game is available for Nokia [...]

Nokia 7230 and Nokia 6700 Slide both Flash Lite 3.0 enabled

Nokia announced two new devices, a S60 and S40 which are both Flash Lite 3.0 enabled phones.

Nokia 7230
Nokia 6700 Slide

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