11 October 2005

ITV offers Flash Lite client

Written by Richard Leggett ( )
Published on October 11th, 2005 @ 04:59:47 pm, using 164 words, 618 views

Categories: News, Flash, Flash Lite, Mobile

Big thanks to David Mannl for pointing this out just now.

I've just signed up for the new ITV Mobizines service (see flash demo here). When you text "MOBILE" to 63330, you receive a link to download the client (if your phone is up to it, mine is an old 7610 and it worked no problems). The client will install the standalone Flash Lite player along with the main application and a skinned media player (just the 2 icons on the main menu, the media player is invoked by the client). When the client is installed via Symbian installer you should see the unmistakeable vector UI and bitmap fonts of Flash Lite 1.1 being used to offer a TV Guide, weather, news and entertainment with the option to download more "Mobizines", or mobile magazines - similar to the channels concept pushed elsewhere. Prime candidate for a FlashCast server hey .

More information on the Mobizines service that ITV have used can be found at: http://www.refreshmobile.com/mobizines.htm

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Comment from: Kelvin Luck

This sounds great! But I went through the process and just got a link to the ITV WAP site... When I visit it on my 6630 there is a menu with the these options [The X Factor, Entertainment News, Soaps and Dramas, TV Guide, News, Sport, Weather, Fun and Games, Help, Wap Terms, Terms of Use]. I can't see which option I need to choose to download the client :(
Any idea where I'm going wrong?

Permalink 12/10/05 @ 13:59

Comment from: Richard Leggett [Member]

I think this may be detecting your handset as incompatible, when I'm pretty sure it wouldn't have any problems running the client.

It sent me a link to download the client directly (appears as a globe in the inbox), and also a message with that same URL inside it.

I'm not sure if it is possible to manually download the client, perhaps contacting them they might be able to give you the URL (mine appears to have a unique ID appended).

Permalink 12/10/05 @ 14:02

Comment from: Kelvin Luck

Wierd - I got a text straight back with a link to http://wap.itv.com/?mx=foo (except the foo is some kind of unique ID). That's the link that gave me the menu I described above... I'll contact the customer service as maybe it is something about my provider (Three) and handset (Nokia 6630) showing up somehow as incompatible...

I'll let you know how I go...

Permalink 12/10/05 @ 14:10

Comment from: Richard Leggett [Member]

Yeah I got the same sort of link, although it took me to a page where I could download the app.

Thanks, Rich

Permalink 12/10/05 @ 14:14

Comment from: Kelvin Luck

Just spoken to customer service a couple of times... First time they mentioned the number should be 63330. So I texted that number but got a very similar text back which just took me to the normal ITV WAP homepage...
Second time I spoke to them it took them a while to figure out what "Mobizines" was and then they had to ring me back. Unfortunately it was with bad news :'(
Mobizines isn't available on the "three" network currently. They say that they are talking to three at the moment and hope to have it available in a couple of weeks time...

Permalink 12/10/05 @ 14:46

Comment from: Luciano Ayres

Hi Richard,

I just watched that demo, really awesome idea running on flash UI. Do you know anything about Brew providing flash lite content?

Permalink 12/10/05 @ 20:21

Comment from: Richard Leggett [Member]

Hey Luciano,

Yeah it's pretty darn good. I'm sorry I don't know anything about BREW other than the MM press release.

Permalink 12/10/05 @ 21:03

Comment from: David Mannl

Hi Guys,

curently Three in the UK is still a walled garden. But the good news is that they are opening it up more and more. So we hopefully can support Mobizines on Three as well pretty soon.
The shortcode number mentioned in the article is wrong. It should be 63330.

Best regards

David Mannl

Permalink 13/10/05 @ 09:24

Comment from: Richard Leggett [Member]

Ah thankyou David, I text the wrong number originally, and 8 instead of a 0 at the end. Strangely I still got through to ITV, only I received the WAP link as did Kevin. But as you say the correct number should be 63330. :)

Permalink 13/10/05 @ 09:40

Comment from: Mark

Hi,

How does the player download work? I thought you had to give Macromedia your phone IEMI number to get the player?

Is this no longer the case....?

Mark

Permalink 18/10/05 @ 10:34

Comment from: Alistair

mobizines grrr!! buggered my 6630!! I did have quite a lot on the phone at the time but after downloading it the phone just locked up with no memory left, had the phone wiped tried again, but it corrupted again and buggered the flash player too! well maybe its all just coincidence it did look good for a while tho!

Permalink 20/10/05 @ 12:04

Comment from: Mark Slavin

I've just tried to access the service using my MDA Pro. Unfortunatly I was told that my phone is incompatible. How come the SDA (and other Microsoft smartphones) is compatible but the more sophisticated Pocket PC edition handset are not?

Permalink 19/11/05 @ 23:56

Comment from: Mark Slavin

I've just tried to access the service using my MDA Pro. Unfortunatly I was told that my phone is incompatible. How come the SDA (and other Microsoft smartphones) is compatible but the more sophisticated Pocket PC edition handset are not?

Permalink 20/11/05 @ 00:04

Comment from: Richard Leggett [Member]

Hi Mark,

I think this is a legacy issue, but I've had reports of lots of Flash Lite content working just fine on PocketPCs in the Flash 6 player (as it should, apart from soft-keys and a few other bits). No doubt the newer PocketPCs will be supported soon.

Permalink 21/11/05 @ 13:54

Comment from: David Mannl

Hi Mark,

It looks like the MDA pro is not supported at the moment. A list of all supported devices can be found here:
http://www.mobizines.com/getstarted/supporteddevices.htm

Best regards

David Mannl

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