Pocket Flash

We’ve all had mobiles for a few years now, even my mum in her 50’s sends me regular text messages. We know where the letter ‘g’ or ‘k’ is going to be without looking. So how on earth did this happen? Who thought it would be a good idea to completely throw out the standard alphanumeric keypad layout that’s been used on mobile phones for over two decades and replace it with this. I actually really liked the phone, I found the touchscreen a bit quirky, but very responsive and more importantly accurate. It’s a shame that LG spent so long getting the touchscreen technology right, only to make finding someone in your contacts list such an absolute nightmare that you go back to your old phone and sell it on eBay.

Sir Alan Sugar has sold Amstrad to BSKYB today for £125 million, personally netting a cool £35m for his 27.9% of the companies shares. Before the deal, 75% of Amstrads’ revenue came from making set-top-boxes for BSkyB.

This in the same week as Sony announce a deal with BSKYB to deliver a video download service for the PSP which will be available to those in UK and Ireland. This is to be part of their multiplatform ‘Anytime‘ service, which allows Sky subscribers to watch shows on-demand, already available on 3G mobile phones in addition to PC’s and of course TV.

This must be a bit of a stick in the eye to BT who signed a four year deal with Sony this May to offer “video calls, voice calls and messaging” through the Sony PSP, as BT Vision competes directly with Sky and their tv-on-demand /anytime service. Surely BT must be pig sick having to watch this service go to Sky.

FUILauncher released for Windows Mobile

“You’ll need Windows Mobile 5.0 or 6, Microsoft .NET Compact Framework 2.0 SP1, and the Adobe Flash Lite 2.1 player to run FUILauncher.”

Take a look at the install instructions:

FUIServer.EXE - The http server .NET application that handles interfacing with the device
Launcher.SWF - The primary SWF file for the launcher
IconConfig.EXE - The icon configuration helper application
settings.xml - An XML configuration file that stores user settings, icon configuration, etc
WALLPAPER - A folder containing a number of .PNG wallpaper files
LAUNCHERICONS - A folder containing a number of 60×60 pixel .PNG icons for the launcher
license.txt - Just some legal stuff so other people can’t claim ownership of the app

Is it me or is there ever going to be a simple way to get Flash Lite apps onto phones, don’t get me started on .sis