I just installed the new touchscreen version of Skyfire on my Nokia 5800 - woe and behold, it's now possible to practice handwriting with Skritter using this setup!

Just thought I should let everyone know. It's not perfect, the strokes comes a little way off, but it's good enough to practice on the go for me at least. Even the sound is working!

Whoa, really? I was under the impression that the Nokia 5800 couldn't run Flash 10 or ActionScript 3 apps, as it uses Flash Lite 3.1. Am I mistaken? What kind of Flash player does it have?

We might be able to fix stroke alignment issues, if you want to work with me on it providing some debugging output I'd need (I don't have a 5800). Email me if you've got time for it.

Skyfire is a beta browser that does the rendering server-side and feeds it to a lightweight client on a smartphone (at least from what I understand). I took a look but didn't try it (I was using a dumb phone at the time, I just got a smart phone but it freezes up making me miss calls so I'm going to return it, sigh).

Oh! I missed that in my quick search; too impatient, I see. Looks like all Symbian S60 and Windows Mobile 5 and 6 phones can get it. Maybe I'll try to resurrect an old Windows Mobile phone and try it.

Well, that's awesome! Way more performant and convenient than VNCing it, I suppose. I would love to see a video of you practicing Skritter in it, PlutonB!

I'll make a video tonight and post it. I can debug test if you want, no problem!

I just tried it on my Nokia e61i; it doesn't let me click and drag (it's not a touchscreen phone) but otherwise works. Amazing!

James

Just sent you an email with a video Nick.

As I mention in the mail, I don't reckon the performance beats a VNC client by much, but it's nice to be able to Skritter on the go wherever you are anyhow. :)

After trying it a little more I discovered that the stroke alignment is perfect if you switch to full-screen, so there's no need to address this issue!

With the right alignment it got much more useful, you just have to write at a slower speed than usual and it works pretty good actually. Kind of zen-training and hanzi-training at the same time.. :)

Sounds sweeeeet!!!
/R/equesting video of performance

I'll upload one later--I got it running on my old Windows Mobile 6 phone. (And we just acquired a mini camcorder to get business videos so I want to try it out.)

For me it was pretty slow, a little slower than PlutonB. But perhaps it depends on Skyfire's server load. I wonder if there will be any way to improve that performance.

I just made a video and put in on Vimeo:
http://vimeo.com/8910694

PlutonB's video had it running faster, but still wanting.

Not worth buying a new phone for yet. But something to look forward to!

Keep us posted on any advances PlutonB， cheers!

Skritter for Windows mobile?

I would like to use Skritter on my mobile phone (currently a Samsung Saga with touch screen running Windows mobile)

Tried running in browser, but seemed to be a Flash problem.. suggestions?

Available for iPhone or other touch screen mobile phone?

Not yet; it needs Flash. The new phones with Flash 10.1 will be able to run it once we make a lot of optimizations for speed. iPhone may get it once we can cross-compile for a native app with Flash CS5, but that'll take even more optimization.

Older phones without Flash won't get it; sorry!