Kinoma Notes

We’re cel­e­brat­ing “Cyber Mon­day” with an excel­lent update to Kinoma Play! (As usual, we’ve updated Kinoma FreePlay as well.)

You’ll be noti­fied about the update auto­mat­i­cally. Or to update imme­di­ately, go to Kinoma Play’s Main screen, show the menu pod and select Player > Check for Updates.

• Kinoma Play’s user inter­face now uses the full, native res­o­lu­tion of all phones. That means that devices with high res­o­lu­tion screens, like the HTC Touch Dia­mond and Sony Eric­s­son Xpe­ria, have much sharper text and graph­ics. We’ve done lots of opti­miza­tion to main­tain the speed and flu­id­ity that Kinoma Play is known for. A nice side effect of this is faster PNG and GIF ren­der­ing on all phones.
• Touch inter­ac­tions are now even more accu­rate and con­sis­tent.
• YouTube is much faster to search and browse, and works reli­ably again on non-English phones.
• After a brief out­age, Google Images is back.
• Google Video feeds are work­ing reli­ably again, now that Kinoma Play includes a workaround for a bug on Google Video’s feed servers.
• Win­dows Media (.asx) playlists stored on your phone now always dis­play the songs they con­tain, and oth­er­wise work just like other kinds of music playlists.
• The ori­en­ta­tion sen­sor now works on all vari­a­tions of the HTC Touch Dia­mond and HTC Touch Pro. Enjoy the auto­matic (and ani­mated!) screen rotation.
• Kinoma Play is now bet­ter at detect­ing when you change to a dif­fer­ent net­work — for exam­ple, from your cel­lu­lar data net­work to a Wi-Fi net­work — so it will use the best avail­able con­nec­tion. (Win­dows Mobile doesn’t make this easy, so we’re quite proud of this improvement.)

Kinoma Play is designed to work on all Win­dows Mobile phones. You can always find an up-to-date list of all phones known to be com­pat­i­ble with Kinoma Play at http://kinoma.com/support/devices/play/.

Enjoy!