Alessandro Pace's Blog

Nokia Developer Champion of the month, April 2012 !

biskero — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 15:49:53 +0300

I have been selected Nokia Developer Champion of the month for April 2012!

Pretty cool, thanks to the Nokia Developer Champion program.

“Nokia Developer Champion Alessandro Pace (biskero to his friends) is a mobile architect and entrepreneur with over 5 million downloads in Nokia Store to his company’s credit. Working out of his home base of Firenze, Italy, he is a world-renowned expert on Flash Mobile development, a WURFL contributor for Flash Lite, co-founder of Mobile Monday Boston, and architect of the Kero Mobile AppStore. He’s also great fun to have a conversation with over your favorite beverage. Take the conversation technical, discuss business, or get him to tell you the legend of Biskero. It’s a conversation you won’t forget.”

Alessandro

Nokia Symbian Belle rolling out for Symbian^3 devices

biskero — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:15:11 +0200

Today Nokia Symbian Belle started to rolling out for Symbian^3 devices!

Check your device update via Nokia Suite.

Alessandro

Nokia N9 apps Facebook page for developers and users

biskero — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 15:39:57 +0200

If you have apps/game for Nokia N9 please share it on this facebook page.

Invite anyone to join as the page, it is made to increase N9 apps/games visibility.

Alessandro

QUI application for Nokia N9, share your location

biskero — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 19:32:28 +0200

The QUI and QUI Lite for MeeGo Nokia N9 are live in the Nokia Store. The QUI Lite verison does not support Email/Facebook/Twitter/Google+ sharing compared to the full version, get QUI full version for these additional sharing features.

“QUI allows you to share via SMS/Email/Facebook/Twitter/Google+ your location to a friend. Use your GPS to get your location and share it by sending a SMS/Email/Facebook/Twitter/Google+. Your friend will receive a link to a web page with your location on a map. GPS and Network access are used as positioning methods. No data is collected. No ads are shown on the application.”

Alessandro

Nokia Suite 3.2.64 Beta from Nokia Beta Labs

biskero — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 22:22:54 +0300

Nokia Beta Labs released the Nokia Suite 3.2.64 Beta:

Nokia Ovi Suite is now called Nokia Suite
The application has a refreshed look and feel
The new Support view offers info and help with using Nokia Suite and your phone
The Support view helps make sure you have enough free space on your phone
The improved sync log shows you what has changed during syncing
Software updates for your phone software and phone applications run now more reliably
You might also notice, that Nokia Suite doesn’t anymore run MPlatform.exe process – we’ve removed that from our architecture. You’ll MPlatform.exe still running, if you have Nokia Ovi Player installed into same PC
Of course, new Nokia Suite 3.2 contains lots more new stuff, huge amount of different errors have been corrected and also many crash issues have been resolved

Alessandro

Nokia Store QML client in Nokia Beta Labs

biskero — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 21:15:40 +0300

Nokia Beta Labs released a new Nokia Store client with a Belle look and feel for some devices.

The Nokia Store is a QML client available for the following devices: Nokia C6-01, C7-00, C7 Astound, E7-00, N8-00, X7-00.

Just installed and looks and works fine, pretty fast scrolling. Seems updates for apps are not working but not sure yet!

Nokia Beta labs is looking for feedabck.

Alessandro

Symbian Anna and Belle supporting Flash Lite 4 content

biskero — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 21:38:15 +0300

Nokia release the new version of Symbian OS, Symbian Anna and announced Symbian Belle. Both support Flash Lite 4 content and if you have created content for Nokia touch devices, for example using Flash Lite 3, it will work out of the box on new devices. Great advantage both from a technical and business point of view.

Also from looking at some videos of Symbian Belle UI/UX looks like a great improvement in the direction of competing directly with Android, iOS and Windows Phone. I am waiting for the Nokia N9 and MeeGo to have a more wide comparison.

Looking forward to Nokia World in October.

Alessandro

OVI Maps renamed Nokia Maps, HTML5 working on iOS and Android

biskero — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 16:10:20 +0300

So rebranding is going underway at Nokia and OVI Maps has been renamed Nokia Maps.

Also interesting enough is that HTML5 is been used to allow Nokia Maps to work on Android and iOS devices. More information here.

Here a picture taken on a Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, maps look great and location works fine too.

Alessandro

Kero Mobile and Calling All Innovators contest

biskero — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 15:22:35 +0300

Ciao

Kero Mobile and Calling All Innovators contest.
If you have time please download and vote in Entertainment category for Kero Mobile http://store.ovi.com/content/131851

More information about Kero Mobile here.

Alessandro

QUI application shares GPS location via SMS/Email

biskero — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 15:37:12 +0300

Via Biskero, a new application in the OVI Store, QUI and QUI Pro. "Basically it gets your GPS location and you can share it via SMS/Email with your friend. You friend will receive a SMS/Email containing a link to a mobile site which will display a map with your locatio. The map uses OVI Maps API. If your friend has a Nokia device, he/she can start OVI Maps client to location you."

“QUI and QUI Pro allow you to share via SMS/Email your location to a friend. Use your GPS to get your location and share it by sending an SMS. Your friend will receive a link to a mobile web page with your location on a map"

The QUI application supports the following GPS enabled Nokia touch devices, including the Nokia X7:

Nokia C7 Astound
Nokia C5-03
Nokia C6-01
Nokia C7-00
Nokia E7-00
Nokia N8-00
Nokia X7
Nokia C6-00
Nokia 5230 Nuron
Nokia 5235 Ovi Music Unlimited
Nokia N97 mini
Nokia X6-00
Nokia 5230
Nokia N97
Nokia 5800 XpressMusic

Download QUI and QUI Pro !!

Alessandro

Nokia Push Snowboarding and Burton project

biskero — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 20:48:05 +0200

Not sure how many people know about this join project between Nokia Push Snowboarding – Burton. Burton is the top brand of snowbard gears in the world and pretty much the inventor of modern snowboarding. The R&D projects is testing the data collection from sensors on various parts of the riders and boards via a Nokia N8.

Basically Nokia and Burton got together to create a snowboard kit to collect data using different sensors via a Nokia N8 while riding a snowboard. They have the application tried by Terje Haakonsen, a legend in the snowboard world!!!

Nokia Push Snowboarding – Burton made available both data collected from 4 riders and code snippets for collecting sensors data.

I am really looking forward to see the final product and get one for sure!

Alessandro

Biskero gets 1 Million downloads from OVI Store

biskero — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 20:07:17 +0200

Via Biskero blog, Biskero announced 1 Million downloads from OVI Store for our content.

Top downloads are Kero Mobile and Tic Tac Toe Blue. Looks like OVI Store allows more and more develoepers to reach more users every day.

“Kero Mobile allows you to access mobile applications, games, media, music, social networking communities, news, sport news, blogs, city information, RSS feeds and more. You can browse, view, play and download content via OVI Store. Operator data charges may apply.”

Alessandro

Tic Tac Toe Holiday in OVI Store, get into the Holiday spirit !

biskero — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 13:56:01 +0200

Biskero release a new version of Tic Tac Toe Holiday in OVI Store for all Nokia touch devices, get into the Holiday spirit !

Alessandro

Forum Nokia video: protect Flash Lite content using .pip installer

biskero — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 12:45:17 +0300

Here is a video showcasing how to protect Flash Lite content using .pip installer:

Alessandro

Forum Nokia Developer Interview: Kero Mobile

biskero — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 21:38:21 +0300

During Nokia World and Nokia Developer Summit I had the chance to get interviewed by Forum Nokia, here is the video.

Download Kero Mobile from the Nokia OVI Store.

Alessandro