AUG Finland demo evening
The next AUG meeting has been confirmed and is held on the 2nd of November, so be sure to mark it on your calendars. We don’t yet know where it’s going to be held, so please if you know any available venues with a video-projector, please be so kind to drop me a mail.
In this meeting we’ll not talk about a specific subject, but instead get to see what you guys have done. We’ll have a number of demos of products, services and applications that have been put together using Adobe tools (well, it’s propably going to be quite a lot of Flash stuff).
We still don’t have that many submissions, so do send me an email (tuomas.artman at valve.fi) if you have a project (does not matter how old or publicly available) which you would want to share with the rest of us. Be prepared to show it in less than 10 minutes and answer some tricky questions from the other AUG-members.
N95. Absolutely fantastic
I had a chance to play around with a prototype of the Nokia N95 at the Adobe Usergroup meeting last evening. It totally blew me away. It’s really the first phone – err, sorry – multimedia device as they call them that can’t wait to hit the shelves.
It’s the first S60 device that has a fast enough processor to make using the phone fluent, nice hardware-accelerated graphics for smooth transitions and animations and a whopping 5 megapix camera and decent mp3 player.
But the best thing is it’s GPS. When I first heard that the N95 was going to have map-software I thought that it would be painfully slow. But hey, they managed to put Google Earth into a device that is really small. It’s 3D, looks good, renders fast and fetches detailed imaginery while you’re zooming in. I don’t know which countries their backend supports (I heard that it would be many), but I had no problem fetching a route from Helsinki to Turku.
Really, you gotta look out for this one. Truly remarkable.
Uh, and it has Flash Lite 2.0 installed.
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AUG Finland meeting tomorrow!
The next AUGFI meeting will be held at the Scandic Hotel Marski tomorrow, on 5th of October at 6pm. The subject is Flash Lite and the speakers are Thomas Dahlblom from Adobe and Mikko Röntynen from Nokia.
Thomas will give us an overview of Flash Lite and show us some demo solutions. Mikko represents the S60 platform and will give us some insights on the Flash Lite technology and platform.
To find the meeting room (called Gustaf), please go to the reception and follow the sign Adobe User Group.
Please let us know if you will attend. Welcome!
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GPS + camera + mp3 player + phone – holy crap! When does it come out? How much?
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Hi felix,
The N95 is going to be available early next year, with an estimated 550 euro streetprice.