Kinoma Notes

As you know, Kinoma Play’s Home screen is a convenient way to organize and launch Kinoma apps.

But here’s something you might not know: You can also add your favorite Android apps to your Home screen, very easily!

Using Android Apps

Kinoma Play’s Android Apps app is a quick, convenient way to jump to any of your non-Kinoma apps.

Can it be even quicker? Yes.

The secret

If you switch to the list view by touching the icon in the upper-right, you’ll find an extra, very useful feature.

See the column of icons on the right? Touch them to add those apps to your Kinoma Play Home screen. (To remove them, just touch again.)

Once you’re done, arrange them as desired. Below you can see that I’ve added four of my favorite Android apps to the bottom of my Home screen.

Questions? Comments? Suggestions?

We’d love to hear them! Come talk to us in our community forum.

Your Kinoma Play probably looks something like this:

Nice, right? But if you have a few seconds, you can customize the Theme and Wallpaper to make it look much different. Here’s how my Kinoma Play looks:

Change your Theme

To change your Theme, go to Settings > Theme.

As I write this, there are two: The default Fog (which will look familiar to long-time Kinoma fans), and a Snow theme that’s new to Kinoma Play for Android.

Change your Wallpaper

To change the wallpaper that Kinoma Play uses on your Home screens, go to Settings > Wallpaper.

• Use Standard to choose from the built-in wallpapers
• Use My Photos to choose any photo to use as your wallpaper

Here’s the beautiful selection of standard wallpapers:

If you choose one of your own photos, Kinoma Play lets you scale and position the image to get it just right before you touch Capture:

Questions? Comments? Suggestions?

We’d love to hear them! Come talk to us in our community forum.

Windows Mobile and Symbian were great in their day, and we like to think that Kinoma Play on those mobile OSs helped extend their useful life.

Sadly, all great things come to an end. Today we’re announcing the end of support for Kinoma Play for Windows Mobile and Kinoma Play for Symbian, in order to better focus on Android and other modern phone and tablet OSs.

You may have already noticed that we ended sales of Kinoma Play on the day that we released the new Kinoma Play for Android. Effective immediately, Kinoma will no longer offer updates for the Windows Mobile and Symbian editions of Kinoma Play. Community-based support is still available via our forum at forum.kinoma.com.

Thank you to our customers who supported these products, and we hope Kinoma Play will be one of the first additions to your new Android phone.

Hello to our new Kinoma Play for Android fans!

Whether you got here from Facebook, Twitter, or the “What’s New” notes of the Google Play store, we’re glad you’re here. Please follow us to get the latest on Kinoma Play and other Kinoma products.

Today we’re happy to announce that the first update to the Kinoma Play for Android preview is available right now.

This update is all about tightening up the preview and making it even more enjoyable to use, based in large part on your helpful feedback. And for that, we thank you!

More efficient

• Now 20% smaller, with NO loss of features
• Secure (SSL) network connections use less memory
• Home screen improvements for better performance and higher visual quality
• Sips even less of your precious battery when idle, or in the background

Dashboards

• Load and update faster
• Places Dashboard now supports location by City and Street (not just City)
• Media Connect combines display of servers and renderers (simpler, uses less space) on Play Dashboard
• Voice Notes now allows quick access to on-the-go recording and playback on Play Dashboard

Apps

• YouTube — Uses higher quality video (AVC) when available, and includes fixes for Subscriptions and Playlists
• Flickr — Now uses OAuth for more secure login, plus other small fixes
• Voice Notes — New! Background recording
• Media Connect — New! Now supports streaming FLAC (lossless audio) to DLNA-compatible devices

Device compatibility

• Fixes to run on low-res Android devices
• Improved reliability when rotating screen
• Rendering fixes for Marvell-powered devices (WMMX)

And those are just the highlights! There’s literally hundreds of other tiny fixes and tweaks in this release to make Kinoma Play run better, faster and more reliably on Android devices.

How to update Kinoma Play

To update immediately, go to Play Store (older versions are called Market) and choose Menu > My apps, then select Kinoma Play (Preview) and touch the Update button.

Tip: Turn on “Allow automatic updating” to make this process automatic in the future.

After you update, go to Apps, touch the Settings icon, and select Refresh to see and install Kinoma app updates.

Questions? Comments? Suggestions?

We’d love to hear them. Come talk to us in our community forum.

Dear faithful, clever and unusually good-looking Kinoma customers,

I’m elated to be able to announce that the preview release of Kinoma Play for Android is now available in Android Market.

We’ve reduced the price a bit, from $29.95 to — wait for it! — FREE. And yes, the final release will also be free.

Get Kinoma Play for Android here: kinoma.com/p

Marvell Launches Preview of Kinoma Play for Android

Kinoma dashboards automatically organize your media, news, and information

SXSW 2012 – Austin, TX. – March 12, 2012 – Marvell (NASDAQ: MRVL), today announced the immediate availability of Kinoma® Play for Android-powered phones. The preview release of Kinoma Play includes a suite of 50 apps enabling digital media, social networking, location, and search. Anyone with an Android phone is invited to experience Kinoma Play as a free download from Android Market.

“Marvell is investing in our Kinoma software platform because we understand the importance of great software to the success of our customers. Our vision of the Connected Lifestyle guides our product development. Kinoma Play truly shows the power of that Connected Lifestyle,” said Weili Dai, Co– Founder of Marvell. “I believe our customers can now build on Kinoma to bring increased value to their own products. Android is just the first stop. We’re working to bring Kinoma to additional Marvell– powered devices.”

Kinoma Dashboards

What makes Kinoma Play special is how it combines information and features from across Kinoma apps into dashboards to simplify and speed everyday tasks. Kinoma Play includes five dashboards:

• Play shows up-to-the-minute information from every Kinoma app with news – social networks, recent photos, stocks, weather, the song you’re listening to, upcoming calendar events, and even Kinoma app updates.
• Search uncovers surprising information by quickly collecting results from across every Kinoma app that supports search.
• Places is an in-depth guide to what’s nearby, combining information from foursquare, Yelp, YouTube, Wikipedia, and HearPlanet, the world’s largest audio guide.
• Music is a music lover’s dream, delivering photos, biographies, and videos of the artist you’re listening to now.
• Send is the hub for sharing and organizing media: show videos on a television, tweet about a song, upload a picture to Flickr, download a podcast, or add to a playlist.

Media Connect

Kinoma Play’s Media Connect app shares media with other devices on the same network, even other phones. It supports the popular Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) standard built into many televisions, computers, and game consoles including Xbox 360 and PS3. Media Connect allows you to easily:

• Show pictures, music, and video from your phone on DLNA compatible televisions
• Play content from media servers on your phone
• Share content with neighboring devices by turning your phone into a media server

Kinoma Create

Further setting it apart from other mobile apps, Kinoma Play is an open environment: developers are invited to bring their ideas into Kinoma Play, from simply plugging into dashboards to creating full apps. Kinoma Create is the environment for Kinoma development on Mac and Windows. Built on the popular Eclipse IDE, developers can easily edit, debug, and profile their apps in Kinoma Create’s unified environment, and test on both the built-in Kinoma Simulator and Android phones over Wi-Fi.

Kinoma apps are written in Kinoma Play Script (KPS) which uses the same JavaScript language as HTML5, providing a familiar starting point for developers. The optimized KPS runtime delivers high performance, media rich, portable, integrated experiences. The biggest innovation in KPS is how it inverts the traditional event driven programming model. KPS apps follow a content-driven model where the primary task is gathering information to display, not displaying information and responding to events. This approach better reflects the focus of today’s connected apps, simplifying development.

Coming soon

“Today’s preview of Kinoma Play and Kinoma Create is just the beginning,” said Peter Hoddie, vice president of the Kinoma Platform at Marvell. “We have big plans for the rest of the year. Our work on a fully hardware accelerated rendering pipeline using OpenGL is delivering beautiful results on tablets. We’re making great progress on Kinoma for iOS, which will allow us to deliver the same Kinoma apps on both Android and iOS. And we’ll share a significant portion of our app suite under an open source license for developers to learn from and build on.”

Availability

Anyone with an Android phone running Android 2.1 or later (Eclair, Froyo, Gingerbread, Honeycomb or Ice Cream Sandwich) can experience Kinoma Play as a free download from Android Market.

Developers who want to discover how productive and fun it can be to build apps with Kinoma’s innovative content-driven programming model are invited to try Kinoma Create on their Mac or Windows-based computer. An Android phone is optional. Kinoma Create is available as a free download at developer.kinoma.com.

SxSW show attendees and media are invited to see Kinoma Play and Kinoma Create, along with a preview of our upcoming work, at the Austin Convention Center, Booth #135.

Join the conversation about Kinoma on Twitter with #Kinoma and follow @Kinoma for the latest news and tips about Kinoma Play and Kinoma Create.

About Marvell

Marvell (NASDAQ: MRVL) is a world leader in the development of storage, communications and consumer silicon solutions. Marvell’s diverse product portfolio includes switching, transceiver, communications controller, wireless and storage solutions that power the entire communications infrastructure, including enterprise, metro, home and storage networking. As used in this release, the term “Marvell” refers to Marvell Technology Group Ltd. and its subsidiaries. For more information, visit Marvell.com.

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