Nokia bringing Microsoft's Silverlight to its smart and dumbphones alike
By Chris Ziegler 
posted Mar 5th 2008 6:38AM
posted Mar 5th 2008 6:38AM
Adobe's Flash -- Silverlight's sworn enemy -- is already well-entrenched on a number of devices (including Nokia's) in its Lite incarnation, so it'll be interesting to see just how far Microsoft can really take this beyond its own Windows Mobile territory. Nabbing Nokia is certainly a big win to that end, and even crazier, Nokia has announced that it'll be bringing Silverlight not just to S60 devices, but also to its extremely capable Series 40 dumbphone platform and to Maemo. S60 development is already well underway with an early cut to be shown off at MIX08 this week and developer tools in the pipe for later this year; timelines Series 40 and internet tablet versions, meanwhile, will be "confirmed later."
That is sweet!
LMAO, I can't believe you guys call those phones "dumbphones." How are people with them supposed to feel? Anyway, Silverlight is cool . I played around with it on a few sites and it's very fast.
That title is Journalistic Gold I tell you. We hear about Smart phones, and the others are just Dumb phones, gets the point across. I love it. If nothing, the title made my day, even if I don't care about the article.