15 Mayıs 2008 Perşembe

Nokia has announced support for Silverlight

Nokia and Microsoft are working together to put Silverlight on Nokia's high-end smarthphones that run on the S60 platform, which uses Symbian. This is great news as it will bring the rich technology from the desktop to Mobile devices.

Silverlight allows designers and developers to produce rich web applications that are independent of browser, operating system and handset.

For more information on the Nokia adoption of Silverlight, read the official Nokia press release.

Also, to learn more about Silverlight, especially Silverlight 2.0, check out Scott Guthrie's blog post!

IntelliScreen Brings Useful Widgets to iPhone's Home Screen


Instead of just staring the time, date and your choice of wallpaper when you start up the iPhone, why not make it more Windows Mobile-y by putting useful information there*? The app IntelliScreen lets you show either your upcoming calendar items, recent emails, recent text messages, the weather, or even an RSS feed up on the standby screen, letting you see what you need to see without even unlocking your phone. Useful? Definitely. Cluttered? For sure.

It's also in beta, and may crash or even wipe some of your data if it conflicts with some of your other apps. Be careful.

* Yes this is one of the few times that people want to make the iPhone more like Windows Mobile.

ASUS P560 sports Windows Mobile 6.1, many acronyms


Buried underneath the hoopla surrounding the announcement of ASUS' Lamborghini-branded ZX1 at CeBIT, the more mellow P560 was also announced, featuring pretty much every spec the average WinMo buyer could want these days in a package that speaks far, far less about the car you're driving (or wish you were driving, anyway). HSDPA, WiFi, 3.2 megapixel autofocus cam, Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR, GPS, microSDHC slot, 256MB of ROM, 128MB of RAM, and Microsoft's freshest build of Windows Mobile Professional -- 6.1, that is -- all have managed to find their way into the P560's unassuming shell. Not bad, though the €500 (about $772) price tag could scare a few folks away when it launches next month.

3M mini-projectors set to land in / with Samsung phones later this year


3M has been touting its mini-projectors for some time now (along with many others), but it looks like they're now finally a bit closer to landing in an actual product, with Samsung reportedly set to begin offering them later this year. What's not clear, unfortunately, is whether the projectors will actually be built into the cellphones (and if so, which ones), or simply offered as an attachment of some sort, but either way you can apparently expect to pay between $200 and $400 for the chance to spread a bit of visual pollution.

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