This article was published on July 6, 2010

Silverlight For Symbian RTMs. Available On The OVI Store


Silverlight For Symbian RTMs. Available On The OVI Store

Microsoft’s alternative for rich media on the Internet is now available on a dying platform.

In a blog post the Silverlight team has announced that Nokia users can download Silverlight from the Ovi Store (~4MB). The supported phones so far are:

  • Nokia 5800 Xpress Music
  • N97
  • N97 Mini

Te following features are being highlighted by Microsoft:

  • Hardware assisted Media playback of H.264 content.
  • On demand media streaming via IIS Smooth Streaming
  • .NET Compact Framework for development.

Microsoft has shared two Silverlight application to try out on Symbian:

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