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Apple keeps holding Flash away from its flagship phone even though it seems that Adobe keeps asking nicely to join the party.

It sounds like this may change soon and with Flash comes Adobe’s 2 Million or so Flash Developers and they’re all heading towards the iPhone – whether Apple wants them or not!

The next version of Adobe’s Flash developer tools, Creative Suite 5 (currently in private beta), will include a “Packager for iPhone” app which will automatically convert any Flash app into an iPhone app. So while Flash apps won’t run on the iPhone, any Flash app can easily be converted into an iPhone app. (Microsoft is taking a similar approach with Silverlight). This is a bigger deal than many people appreciate.

As you know, most video on the Web (YouTube, etc) is displayed through a Flash player and even though Apple says that there’s problems with Flash it certainly seems to run ok on Android.

As well as the video playing Flash can be used to create Web apps. Apple kept Flash away not so to control the video experience on the iPhone, but because it needed to establish its own Apple-controlled iPhone SDK.

If you think that there’s plenty of apps to chose from now just wait ’til 2 million more developers join the current 125,000 iPhone app developers!

My word!

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Samsung Bada Goes Public (a bit) – So Far So Good

by Jay Garrett on December 8, 2009

badaSamsung Bada went a little bit more public today when I got a press-release in my mailbox that started:

Samsung bada (meaning Ocean in Korean) is a driving force in accomplishing Samsung’s vision of a ‘smartphone for everyone’.

Samsung Bada is pretty important as it’s actually built on the company’s Touchwiz interface and is being aimed at Sammy’s mid-range blowers.

This could mean an end to the snootiness of apps being reserved for the highend elite.

Samsung says that the Bada SDK will go beyond what we’ve already seen from rivals, letting developers create apps with face detection, and even access proximity and weather sensors – but, then they would wouldn’t they?

Apparently Samsung Bada will let app-makers create “context-aware interactive applications”…….

It appears that Sammy is taking a leaf out of Android’s book and allowing developers pretty much free range with the app building – unlike a certain orchard fruit-named company where apps have to follow strict guidelines that includes the not using “undocumented features” of the phone, for example, its proximity sensor ;)

When I say free-range I means it as Bada will even allow third party apps to perform core phone functions, such as making a call – Not even Android has that yet!

Samsung’s pledging a series of developer days across the globe in 2010 to introduce coders to its new platform. It’s also launching a challenge to developers, giving them the chance to win a share of a $2.7 million prize fund.

Bada is definitely shaping up to be something very promising from the sound of things – Just need to have a play with it myself if poss ;)

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New iPhone Design Leaked By SDK Icon and Reference – Not Long Until June!

May 25, 2009 Click to read more →
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Now this is what I expect from a bank holiday!
More fuel to the iPhone 3 rumours and this time it comes from an icon and reference from inside the latest iPhone 3.0 SDK.
Thanks again to MacRumours who’ve dug up a MacTalk.com.au forum thread that reveals the mention of “iPhone 2,1″ within the latest build of [...]

iPhone Accelerometer Controlled TV Out Discovered

November 28, 2008 Click to read more →

Ars Technica was messing around with the latest iPhone SDK and found something called MPTVOutWindow – which, unsurprising given its name, sends video out through the Dock Connector port to an outside source – (the TV bit of the name), such as an external screen.
Apparently this bit of kit is meant for movies but also allows any program [...]

iPhone Firmware 2.2 – Most People Ignored

October 26, 2008 Click to read more →

iPhone Firmware 2.2 – Cut and Paste, video and pics over MMS, typing emails and texts in landscape are all the things that aren’t going to appear!
What you will get, however, is Google Street View and walking directions – obviously more important than those I mentioned above.
There is something a little more interesting [...]

Xperia X1 Windows SDK Out

September 3, 2008 Click to read more →

Sony Ericsson are following the iPhone’s lead and have today published their Software Developer Kit (SDK) for the lovely Xperia X1.
The X1 can be personalised through its neat nine panel user interface.
Developers can use the Windows Mobile SDK, free of charge, to produce a wide variety of panels.
The Sony Ericsson SDK for Windows Mobile 6.1 [...]

AppLoop – Location Based Ads On iPhone 3G

July 2, 2008 Click to read more →

Whilst most of us are waiting to buy the new iPhone 3G there’s equal anticipation coming from third-party companies and developers who are waiting to take advantage of the possibilities that the SDK and GPS offers.
AppLoop is a startup launching today that will provide developers with a self-service platform for tracking mobile application usage and distributing ads [...]

Sling for iPhone and iPod Touch

June 9, 2008 Click to read more →

Sling have just released some interesting information which means that you could watch Sling-ed (?) flicks on your iPhone or iPod touch (albeit on a jailbroken version at the mo).
According to Sling,
“Ever since the Apple iPhone hit the market, we’ve been receiving inquiries as to when we’ll have a version of SlingPlayer Mobile for the platform. [...]

Apple WWDC 2008 Times and Places To Be At: Spy Pics

June 6, 2008 Click to read more →

Photos: Gernot Poetsch
Alrighty!!
It’s time to synchronise your timepieces people!  If, like me, you wont be over in the states on Monday Enadget will be feeding us the good stuff.
If you (possibly) want to get all the juice about the:

3G iPhone
Mid-range Mac desktop
Tablet MacBook
Tablet iPod touch
New MacBook Pros

Hang on though.  This is the WWDC (World Wide Developer [...]

iPhone Rotary Dial

May 16, 2008 Click to read more →

If you want your iPhone to wear some retro chic or you’re just plain feeling nostalgic you need this third party application that goes by the name of Visua mobile.
The app will put up this way cool rotary dialer upon your iBlower in place of that run-of-the-mill digital thing.
It’s just a shame that it doesn’t come with a [...]