A new article “Porting J2ME games to Flash Lite” published by Mariam Dholkawala on Adobe Developer Center today.

Following things covers in this article :

• Things to consider when porting J2ME games
• Supporting multiple devices in Flash Lite and J2ME
• Differences in Porting Flash Lite 2.0 and MIDP 2.0

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Mika Salmi, MTV head of global media shown couple of examples in 3GSM, range from games and animations using Flash Lite and Flash Cast.

“I absolutely concur with Edgar on one thing, which is this idea of simplicity,” Salmi said. “We are also somewhat concerned for our core consumer base, which is teens and young adults.

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Dmxzone  just published a mini review of flash applications for mobile devices book and a small competitions for this book.

The friendly people of Friends Of Ed are giving away 5 books! 🙂

” All you need to do, to enter the competition is, download the sample PDF and finish the following equation:

“Angle of Incidence = …”

Send your answer to this e-mail address, before Thursday the 21st of February 2007. Don’t forget to include your post address and phone number (required for international shipping) in the e-mail. ”

via Frank Beverdam

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PixelGo, a flash lite gaming company. I Just saw his website.
Really cute characters with good graphics 🙂

I like Feed the monkey ..its simple and addictive.

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Via Biskero he took couple of videos from the Adobe showcases, video and audio quality are not the best since there was some reflection and noise.

• MTV FlashCast channel
• Device Central

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A new application enables Adobe’s Flash Video to play smoothly on mobile phones. The  transcoding system will be unveiled this week at 3GSM in Barcelona.The technology has been created by On2 Technologies, a video compression company based in the  U.S. 

The company’s video compression technology is licensed to Adobe for use in Flash 8 and 9.  The video compression software is also sold directly to content developers and video sharing sites.

The new system for wireless transcoding is called Flix Engine 3GPP.  It will initially support the H.263 and AMR-NB 3GPP formats.  On2 has the exclusive rights to transcode Flash files.Content developers and carriers will have the ability to transcode Flash files and make them available directly to wireless users. The system provides compression of video files, making them as little as one quarter the size of the original files. 

Making video files smaller is of crucial interest to wireless carriers, many who are daunted by the expected bandwidth demands of streaming video.

Click here to see video

They shown clearly how video appears at different frame rate. Very intresting!
And definately a enormous growth in flash video.

Read press release via on2 here

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Barcelona, Spain (PRWEB) February 12, 2007 – SolidLabs, a leading developer of premium mobile content and applications and provider of content aggregation services, has announced the release of GLOW, a FlashLite mobile chat client. GLOW is based on ChatBlazer, a long-time industry leader in chat and instant messaging.SolidLabs will unveil the new FlashLite client at the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona, Spain February 12-15 in booth number 7F57.

The launch of GLOW’s new Flash Lite client makes it the very first cross platform mobile chat application with both Java and FlashLite clients. Most mobile chat solutions use SMS to deliver individual messages across the mobile network and thus only enable mobile users to communicate with other mobile users. Other chat applications exist that enable mobile users to chat with both mobile and computer-based users, but only to users with an account on the same network.

Features:

• Connect with friends using popular IM services, including MSN, ICQ, AIM, and Yahoo!
• Chat across multiple platforms and with desktop friends on Macs and PCs
• Engage in multi-party chat and web conferencing
• Send and receive SMS messages
• Customize the look and feel of the user interface
• Create dynamic user profiles
• Access public and themed chat rooms.
• Create their own Private chat rooms with the option to password protect them.

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Flash Home, a new cool product by adobe which enables you to deliver rich, dynamic home screens consistently across a broad range of handsets.

Flash Home is a flexible, white-label home screen solution that combines customizable home screens with live data services to provide subscribers with personalized, engaging experiences across handsets.

With Flash Home, you can embed data services and active content into home screens and easily promote new services tailored for various market segments, extending and differentiating your brand in a highly visual way.

Features :

• Flexible, data-enabled home screens
• On-device catalog for easy discovery, preview, and management of home screens
• Support for rich media, including FLV files, text, audio, and vector graphics
• Over-the-air updates of branded user interfaces
• Extensible architecture
• Powerful mobile authoring capabilities

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Adobe today announced that support for video will be integrated in the next generation of Adobe® Flash Lite™ software, Adobe’s award-winning Flash® Player runtime specifically designed for mobile phones. Flash Lite 3, expected to be released to manufacturers in the first half of 2007.

“Video support in Flash Lite will revolutionize the way users engage with mobile content and open up new revenue opportunities for developers worldwide,” said Al Ramadan, senior vice president for Mobile and Device Solutions at Adobe. “This release will allow users to view vibrant video content from popular Internet sites like YouTube or MySpace and enable developers to create new, dynamic applications across a variety of mobile and consumer electronics platforms.”

Great news for flash lite developers 🙂

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Samsung today announced a new addition to its Ultra portfolio with the introduction of Ultra Smart F700. This revolutionary mobile phone will be showcased at 3GSM World Congress.

Features :

1) Full Touch Screen
2) MPEG4/H.263/H.264/Real MP3/AAC(+)/eAAC+/Real
3) QWERTY Keypad
4) MMS / E-mail / JAVA / WAP 2.0
5) Bluetooth® / USB
6) Flash UI / Document Viewer 🙂
7) Full HTML Browsing
8) Offline Mode, BGM

Click here for more technical details

Flash lite is growing everywhere . . . 🙂

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An upcoming cool product in the combination of watch/media player by iriver which they have shown in CES 2007 booth.
The most intresting thing about this device is a “combination of flash based media player/watch “.

So now i can wear flash too in watch format. Really cool! 🙂

Click here to see video

Unfortunately in the video i havent found anything like above images, not sure why?
If someone have any updates kindly update here.

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“The true benefit of developing with Flash Lite is that all you have to do is optimize the file for screen size and resolution—that’s it. Now, porting efforts are virtually eliminated.”

Shockwave Minis are fun, easy-to-play mobile phone games, including titles from MTV, Nickelodeon, and Comedy Central. Original games, including puzzles, sports, action, and casino challenges.
“Shockwave Minis bring a new category of fun, impulsive mobile games to the mass market,” says Roy Sehgal, VP of Strategy and New Businesses at Shockwave & AddictingGames. “Teaming with Verizon Wireless gives us the unique opportunity to jointly increase mobile game penetration in the United States.”

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Great! Iriver clix 2 is going to be called as iriver 2nd generation (2g) with new improvements and new capabilities of flash lite is expected to be release in 12th feb 2007 in Korea.
A great device with cool features which iriver clix and U10 really missed it.
Main Features are:
1) Flash lite wallpaper.
2) Flash lite Themes (no need to hack them as in U10 some developers did.) So a complete new GUI based on flash lite. Its really great and impressive that iriver opens possibilities to create beautiful GUI.
3) Slimmer then iriver clix and U10.
4) Incredibly beautiful AMOLED display (Active Matrix Organically Light Emitting Diode) Very crisp and bright colours.
5) Fonts

Images Via bycube

No technical specifications released yet seems, haven’t found it so if anyone have kindly update it here. But must be with Flash lite 2.0 atleast.

Seems User demand of Rich personalization graphics like using wallpaper, new themes (GUI) etc. increasing day by day and it provides excellent opportunities for designers 🙂

I really love this device very much, can’t wait to see in my hand, and love to see my flash lite content playing in this 🙂 .

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“With over 200 million mobile phone users in America, today’s mobile phones have become capable of much more than flashy ringtones. The possibilities for creative marketing and product branding are limitless — and innovative design firms are taking notice.”

According to Punchkick Interactive co-founder Ryan Unger …

They saw a potential for unbelievable growth in mobile advertising areas and it can create an incredible impact.

As i think its really a upcoming and growing area where flash lite can play a major role and creative firm can do wonder 🙂 . Advertising on mobile can be on many ways in the form of screensaver, wallpapers or a catchy flash advertisements etc. which can really attract users.

Share your ideas here.

what you think about the other ways, how flash lite can be used for advertising in mobile phones?

Feel free to post your ideas, suggestions and comments etc.

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Great news for Indian flash lite community as IndiMaD, India’s official User Group begins. Managed by Mariam Dholkawala, India Games.

The goal of this group is to bring the Indian Flash Lite community together so that the developers have a platform to meet, network and help its own Flash Mobile Community grow.

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UK-based Tricastmedia has announced that their display engine for the ultra-compact rich media toolkit TWUIK is now Vector-Graphics based.Offers a powerful UI platform (TWUIK) enabling customers and developers to create better and more visually appealing user experiences, designed for a wide range of mobile devices.

TWUIK is a rich media graphics user interface toolkit for J2ME developers to create UI with visual effects.

Features:

• Powerful: Create Flash-like user interface with advanced animation and effects engine
• Cost effective: Cross platform development reduces cost and time to market
• Intuitive: Easy to learn, based on XML data-handling and Java
• Extensible: Customizable UI components can be included with TWUIKâ„¢ to target specific device or application requirements
• Flexible: Application design and development can change independently
• Portable: Create eye-catching user interface and content for mobile phones and consumer electronic devices like mp3 players, game consoles, multimedia players

Supportive platform are :

• J2ME/MIDP 2.0/CLDC 1.1
• Windows Mobile 5.0
• J2ME/Doja 3.x/4.x (coming soon)
• Qualcomm BREW 3.x (coming soon)

See demo example here

Interesting! Can someone compare technically with flash lite.

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