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AIR on mobile devices and Flash Player 10.1 available to content providers and mobile developers worldwide announced by Adobe

Wow great news from Adobe at the Mobile World Congress  2010, Barcellona :

• Adobe AIR on mobile devices, a consistent runtime for standalone applications to come out of the Open Screen Project™, an industry-wide initiative led by Adobe that has grown to close to 70 ecosystem partners.
  
• support for the Android™ platform expected in 2010
  
• Adobe also announced that a beta of Flash Player 10.1 was made available to content providers and mobile developers worldwide. With the general availability expected in the first half of 2010, Flash Player 10.1 is the first consistent runtime release of the Open Screen Project enabling uncompromised Web browsing of expressive applications, content and high definition (HD) videos across screens including new tablet devices, smartphones, netbooks, smartbooks, desktops and other consumer electronics.

Some links:

Getting started with Adobe Flash Player 10.1 content for mobile devices

Resources for Flash developers optimizing mobile content to deliver uncompromised Web browsing of expressive applications, content, and video across devices with the upcoming release of Adobe Flash Player 10.1. 

www.adobe.com/devnet/devices/mobile_flash_10-1_developers.html

Adobe Flash Player 10.1 and Adobe AIR 2 mobile preview videos

Videos highlighting various aspects of Adobe Flash Player 10.1 and Adobe AIR 2 prerelease software, including websites and applications, on devices from Open Screen Project partners and other providers.

www.adobe.com/go/airmobile

Follow Adobe at the official Mobile World Congress blog at blogs.adobe.com/flashplatform.

Adobe Photoshop.com goes on mobile,a Flash Lite application for Windows Mobile devices

Adobe has announced the mobile version for Photoshop.com . Photoshop mobile will allow users to upload, view, and share  photos online from your mobile devices with Windows Mobile system.
It seems that Symbian Flash Lite devices will be supported :( It's a shame that the first consumer-oriented mobile application developed by Adobe won't support Nokia (Symbian) Flash Lite enabled mobile devices but only Palm devices.  I don't want to buy a Palm :)

The Photoshop.com Mobile beta application is expected to be initially released on 6 Windows Mobile mobile devices in the U.S. at the end of September 2008 (Bill Perry source):

Samsung Blackjack I
Samsung Blackjack II
Motorola MOTO Q 9h
Motorola MOTO Q Music 9m
Palm Treo 700 w/wx
Palm Treo 750

Information on the Adobe site:
http://www.adobe.com/products/pscom/mobile/

Is Nokia an Internet company ?

No. Definetly. Or better, not now.
But  Nokia wants to act more like an internet company  than a "traditional manufacturer" (via WebGuild).

Nokia introduced Ovi, the company's new Internet services brand name. With the introduction of Ovi, Nokia is expanding from a focus on mobile devices to offering a range of Internet services. Ovi, meaning 'door' in Finnish, enables consumers to easily access their existing social network, communities and content, as well as acting as a gateway to Nokia services.

Then, if you consider latest companies acquired by Nokia you can simply understand that Nokia is transforming itself  to a product and services company with broader revenue streams.

Nokia acquired a car navigation devices and mapping services company Navteq for $8.1 billion to gain digital maps of 69 countries.

Nokia acquired Enpocket to add technology for placing advertisements through text messages and e-mail.

Nokia acquired Loudeye to create a mobile music service to counter the iTunes and diversify its offerings.

i2 technologia featured on Forum Nokia with Anina's Flash Lite DressUp game

I'm very happy to spread the word for this news. Guys behind i2 technologia (Felipe and Luciano) were featured on Forum Nokia as a FN Success Story:

"French supermodel Anina and Brazil’s i2 technologia teamed up to create Anina Dress Up, a fashion-memory game created using Flash Lite from Adobe. It is available for S60 3rd Edition and S40 devices."

Ehi guys Congrats.
I can't wait to meet you again ;)

Waiting for the Nokia N96 I'm enjoying my N95 8GB with Flash Lite 3

I'm a Nokia N95 8GB (with Flash Lite 3 installed) owner since November 2007 and I'm totally satisfied.  When the Nokia N95 8GB software version 15.0.015 was  released, the Flash Lite 3 support was added (other improvements include WLAN and browser stability, email viewing and Nokia Maps startup) and a lot of N95 Flash Lite (and non flash lite) applications come out.  Moreover thanks to the WiFi support you can watch YouTube videos, write email and browse the web.

Even though I'm pretty sure I won't switch to a new mobile device soon,  I can't ignore the upcoming Nokia N96. The Nokia N96 is a Nokia S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 2 and a Flash Lite 3.0 enabled phone.
See this N96 video from AllAboutSymbian.

Flash Lite Group is growing day by day. Thank you !

With the Mobile World Congress starting in Barcellona I wanted to point it out how big the Flash Lite Yahoo Group has become.

The FlashLite Yahoo Group I created on May 17, 2005 reached 1678 registered members. So in less than 3 years the FlashLite group has become bigger and bigger.
I hope the interest behind Flash Lite will continue growing as well as the mobile market. Unfortunately in Italy the requests of Flash Lite training and consulting activities were not so many in the past year :(

To all the people is attending at the Mobile World Congress, have fun ! One of the guy of Comtaste is there so he'll give us some real time report from the conference (thanks Francesco) !

Opera Mobile 9.5 supports Flash Lite player

Watching this video uploaded by Opera, it seams like the new Opera 9.5 supports Flash Lite Player :

 

Opera Mobile 9.5
by operasoftware

Stream Flash Video files directly from YouTube with your N95 mobile device and Flash Lite 3

I was googling  for a tool to download and play video files (Flash Video) on my new Nokia N95 8GB when I found this free wonderful mobile application : emTube.

emTube is a Flash Lite 3 application for Symbian S60 3rd edition phones that allows you to:

# Search and browse videos on YouTube.
# Download selected videos onto your phone.
# Stream FlashVideo files directly from YouTube.
# Play local FlashVideo files.

Other features:

- Audio and position control during playback.
- Normal and full screen (portrait and landscape mode) video playback.
- Ability to use built in accelerometer to rotate video between portrait/landscape mode.

The emTube supports the Nokia N95 accellerometer plug ing to detect movement orientation of the phone and to change the user interface of the played video.
Cooool !

Is Nokia thinking of Flash Player 9 HD video support for next generation mobile devices ?

This is what I thought when I read this article "Nokia sees HD video on cell phones in a few years"  where the analyst Alan Brown of research firm Gartner said he estimated that 8 percent to 10 percent of cell phones might have HD video capability by 2010 or 2011.  And Nokia Chief Technology Officer Tero Ojanperä told Reuters in an interview :
"It's coming. Technically, we are a couple of years away.It's still a few years away."

I trust Nokia. And now that we have the Flash Player 9 with the support for H.264 video (it's the compression component of MPEG 4 also found in Blu-Ray and HD-DVD).

For Nokia, it will be enough to produce and distribute a mobile device Flash Player 9-enabled in the next two years.
Not so difficult, isnt't it ?

Flash Lite 3 Developer Edition certified on Nokia N95

Flash Lite 3 Developer edition is available for download on the Adobe site. The Flash Lite 3 has been certified by Adobe for the Nokia N95 (it's my phone :)).  Anyway it should work on any Nokia S60 3rd edition or later devices.
As you can read from the site :

This version of the Flash Lite 3 Developer Edition is not locked to the serial number of the device, you don't have to provide your IMEI number to download the installer. This installer has a startup screen indicating that it is the Flash Lite 3 Developer Edition. Devices that will ship with Flash Lite 3 pre-installed will not have this start up screen in their standalone players.

       

The first shipping devices with Flash Lite 3 pre-installed will be Nokia S60 models and will be available in Q1 2008.

The first shipping devices with Flash Lite 3 pre-installed will be DoCoMo’s 905i series, available now, and Nokia S60 models, which are scheduled to be available in Q1 2008.