Mobile Marketing Blog by Punchkick Interactive

I am not sure who found this first, but I found this on Alessandro’s site.

There is an interesting white paper from Forum Nokia: Mobile Game Graphics - Overcoming the Small Screen Challenge. It’s a short article describing some important challenges when you develop games for mobile phones. Anyone looking to start developing Flash Lite games, take a look at this article, it gives some good tips.

Read: Mobile Game Graphics - Overcoming the Small Screen Challenge.

This is not news to most of us, but alas, this phone is beautiful and it is so close to launching in the US—I couldn’t resist. The Nokia N-95 is due out the first quarter of 2007. Learn more at the N-95 WOM blog As Scott might say, Frigg’in sweet.

An article on Mobile Monday discussed the likely possibility that Sprint will join forces with Nokia in a big way for it’s new WiMax network that is expected to roll out by 2008. Does this mean more Flash Lite in North America? Possibly. However, bringing Nokia on as a major phone supplier would not be enough on it’s own.

Currently, Verizon Wireless and Sprint both use Qualcomm’s network. The difference is that Sprint has not signed a licensing agreement to use BREW for content distribution—so no Flash Lite.

Although the differences of WiMax and Sprint’s existing setup are not entirely clear to me, this may open the door for Flash Lite and Sprint.

Read the full article here.

If anyone is interested in designing or developing WAP sites for mobile phones, I have found some very useful information and put together this list of 11 essential tools for mobile Web development. You can also learn more about Punchkick Interactive’s mobile WAP and Web Site development capabilities.

Tools and Resources:

1. Mobi Ready score
Get your free page analysis and Mobi Ready score. This report tests the mobile-readiness of your site using industry best practices & standards

2. XHTML mobile phone emulator
Type in your .com / .net / .org / .biz, etc. site address and you can check how your site looks to a typical mobile phone user. Available handsets are the Nokia n70 and a Sony K750.

3. Submit Your Mobile Site to yahoo.com
This form lets you submit a mobile site to yahoo.com so that the mobile site will be included in search results when someone searches via their mobile handset at http://wap.yahoo.com.

4. The Mobile Domainatron
The Mobile Domainatron demonstrates a domain name’s mobile usability including: Calculating total keystrokes required to input the domain name on a typical i-mode mobile.

5. Mimic
Mimic (formerly i-Mimic) emulates either an N400i (European) or N505i (Japanese) i-mode mobile. Simply enter a URL and select the mobile you want to emulate.

6. YOSPACE.com phone emulators
You can either use the free online emulator for the 40+ handsets or you can use the standalone developer version on your PC. From here you can download the standalone version with a restriction of 5 minutes of use. Alternatively, you can buy a single user license is £299 + UK VAT.

7. WURFL - the Wireless Universal Resource File
The WURFL is an XML configuration file which contains information about capabilities and features of several wireless devices. The main scope of the file is to collect as much information as possible about all the existing wireless devices that access WAP pages so that developers will be able to build better applications and better services for the users.

8. Article :: The Mobile Web Top 10
Pukupi’s top 10 hints for building interoperable mobile web sites really spells out much of what has been questioned regarding mobile Web site development.

9. Article :: Making Small Devices Look Great
Opera has put together this wonderful resource that gives code examples, tips, and emulator advice for developing mobile XHTML pages.

10. Article :: Global Authoring Practices for the Mobile Web
This document gives general guidelines for web developers and content authors who are searching for directions to help create sites for the mobile web.

11. Blog :: http://www.handheldusability.com/
Handheld Usability is the first book to cover the emerging field of handheld product design. The book covers everything from product design cycles to optimum menu length and audicon (audio-icon) characteristics. Read the first chapter and preview other sections here.

QUOTE FROM KUNERI:
Considering these facts and possible future needs, we prepared a list for developers to have a reference when developing Flash Lite applications. Initially there are only Nokia S60 and Series 40 devices, however, we hope to extend the list further with your help. Please register to our forum, and contribute to Flash mobile device list for developers. There is also performance information for all devices, which will be filled with tests performed by us and other developers.

Original article: http://bloggy.kuneri.net/2006/12/17/flash-mobile-device-list-for-developers
Device List for Developers: http://forum.kuneri.net/index.php?topic=5.0
kuneri Forum: http://forum.kuneri.net