Qualcomm and Adobe Flash Collaborate to Empower Developer Ecosystems With BREW Mobile Platform

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Qualcomm and Adobe announced the BREW® Mobile Platform with integrated Adobe Flash® technology and new platform features. BREW Mobile Platform, which leverages Qualcomm’s widely deployed BREW Client software, greatly expands the capabilities for developers and enables them to create rich applications and Web content in Adobe Flash for the BREW environment. The software will fully integrate and deliver Adobe Flash technology to mass market handset devices. By combining the strengths of both BREW and Flash technologies, BREW Mobile Platform brings the mobile application and Web content development communities together, setting a new standard for mass market handset platforms.

The differences between the Flash Lite extension model and the BREW Mobile Platform are:

  • Adobe Flash technology will be directly integrated into the platform, meaning no per/device per/carrier certification will be required
  • BREW developers will be able to use existing native BREW API interfaces directly with Flash via ActionScript – so Flash can become the presentation layer
  • The BREW Mobile Platform will be shipping on all mass market BREW handsets worldwide – for all BREW carriers

Great News and increasing wide areas for Adobe Flashlite developers 🙂

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Indepth thoughts via Bill perry

vivek

Adobe releases 3 new public betas of Creative Suite (CS4)

Adobe releases 3 new public betas of Creative Suite (CS4)

Adobe today release a sneak peek of three applications from the next release of Adobe Creative Suite (CS4), its award-winning collection of graphic design, Web development and video editing applications.

Application released (beta): Adobe Dreamweaver, Adobe Fireworks and Adobe Soundbooth
Duration: active for 48 hours only.

Download here

Note: To get the serial number that will unlock the CS4 beta applications you will first need to enter your serial number from your copy of Adobe Creative suite CS3.

vivek

SingTel launches mio TV on Mobile service using Adobe Flash Lite technology

mio TV on Mobil

It’s great news coming around the world using Adobe Flash Lite technology specially in terms of on demand videos entertainment industry straight to your pocket mobile devices.

Recently Singapore Telecommunications Limited (SingTel) launches mio TV on Mobile service using Adobe Flash Lite technology and Nokia Siemens Networks’ Mobile TV streaming solution. SingTel is the first operator in Singapore and one of the first in Asia Pacific to launch a mobile TV client with true TV viewing experience on mobile phones.

“mio TV has revolutionised the way people watch TV, and the mio TV on Mobile service provides our customers with yet another convenient medium to expand their viewing options,” said Mr Wong Soon Nam, SingTel’s Vice President of Consumer Marketing.

“With Singapore’s high mobile penetration rate and SingTel’s customer base of over 2.5 million mobile users, the largest in Singapore, it makes sense to offer compelling content on our mobile platform so that Singaporeans have access to their favourite mio TV content wherever they may be.”

Expected Launching: July 2008
Price:  $6 per month for unlimited viewing of the live channels. Ondemand price $0.50 per clip.

Read more about mio TV here

vivek

Nokia’s London design event: listen podcast from the UI design team

nokia london design event

Just found this podcast via core 77 of Nokia’s recent London design event which offering a curtainpeek at their design process, ethnographic wanderings, sustainability initiatives, and plans for the future. Nokia has over 300 designers worldwide, and ships over 1.2 million products everyday. So it’s really keen to know what their designers intake for their creative food 😀

Listen now(31min.) | iTunes

vivek

Chunghwa Telecom launches Channel Me, powered by Adobe Flash Cast.

Chunghwa Telecom-Flash Cast service

Via Mark Doherty,  Yesterday in Taiwan Chunghwa Telecom launched their new Channel Me service, powered by Flash Cast. The service launches with some fantastic looking channels, some of which you can play with, see here (press the yellow button). Channels include news, weather, sports, travel, dining out amongst others. The channels look fantastic and really fit the vision of rich and engaging experiences.

The service is supported on Series 60 and Windows Mobile devices from the launch include the stunning HTC Diamond.

vivek

Adobe Flash Player 10 Beta Delivers New Creative Features to Transform Rich Internet Experiences

Adobe Flash Player 10, code-named “Astro”

Adobe just releases Adobe Flash Player 10, code-named “Astro,” and introduces new expressive features and visual performance improvements that allow interactive designers and developers to build the richest and most immersive Web experiences. These new capabilities also empower the community to extend Flash Player and to take creativity and interactivity to a new level.Delivers New Creative Features to Transform Rich Internet Experiences. quite cool news 🙂

Key new features are:

  • 3D Effects
  • Custom Filters and Effects
  • Advanced Text Layout
  • Enhanced Drawing API
  • Visual Performance Improvements

View live demo here
Read complete details and download Flash Player 10 via adobe lab
Read press release here

Great new experiences coming around 😀

vivek

BREW 2008: with interesting session on adobe flash lite

BREW 2008 Conference

The BREW 2008 Conference about to begin in three weeks. And you can’t afford to miss a minute. With an expanded program lineup and our most global group of participants to date, this year’s event promises to be filled with everything you need to push your business to the next level. So tap into the power of BREW experts 🙂 and enjoy with over 90 sessions spanning the conference.

Conference: BREW 2008
Time: May 28 – 30, 2008
Place: Manchester Grand Hyatt, San Diego, CA

Click here for complete session details

It include very exciting Flash lite session:

TECH-503 – Beyond Content: the Power of Flash® Liteâ„¢ for Core UIs
BREW®’s Flash Lite Extension enables customization at the core UI level, beyond themes and screensavers. Come learn how Flash Lite’s abstraction allows rapid development opportunities.
This session covers:
1. Flash Lite’s extensive personalization opportunities
2. Access to core BREW functions
3. Benefits versus other UI technologies

Speaker: Christian Robertson, Technical Evangelist, Punchcut

I hope to see recording of this session, if possible as usual design is something which always passionate me 🙂

vivek

Adobe devnet new article: Developing Flash Lite applications with dynamic layouts

Bacardi Mobile Cocktail application

Via Bill, A new article published on the Adobe Mobile DevNet about “Developing Flash Lite applications with dynamic layouts”.

David Brown from Agencynet wrote the article and he showcased an excellent example of  Bacardi Mobile application that i have seen couple of times in podcast as well as live in handsets too. This article covers the technical side as well sample files are also included.

It’s always passionate me too see just not a good application but the engaging creative experiences we actually create for everyone 🙂

vivek

Nokia and Design, What mobile phone means to you!

nokia global phone design

Nokia Design Studio they calls “open studio.” Works really closer with local experts such as NGOs or even students, Nokia designers went into each city and set up a community based competition asking people to design their dream phone.  Results sometimes lead out some interesting concepts and sometime unusual.

“In the not so distant past, the end game of design for Nokia was the phone, Nokia’s head of design Alistair Curtis says. Now the phone is a springboard to all sorts of services, he says. Developing relevant services, he believes, means creating an open platform. Then consumers can eventually bolt on applications as needed. ”

check out this slide show for some concepts of phone model.

vivek

Abobe Announces Open Screen Project 2008: Open Technology to Help Expand Flash Player Reach

Adobe Open Screen Project 2008

Today Adobe announced the Open Screen Project 2008, A great news and step ahead for flash player reachability ensuring a consistent rich Internet experience across a broad range of digital screens and form factors including mobile phones, consumer electronics, televisions and personal computers “anything to anywhere, experience matters”

The Open Screen Project is supported by technology leaders, including Adobe, ARM, Chunghwa Telecom, Cisco, Intel, LG Electronics Inc., Marvell, Motorola, Nokia, NTT DoCoMo, Qualcomm, Samsung Electronics Co., Sony Ericsson, Toshiba and Verizon Wireless, and leading content providers, including BBC, MTV Networks, and NBC Universal, who want to deliver rich Web and video experiences, live and on-demand across a variety of devices.

The Open Screen Project is working to enable a consistent runtime environment – taking advantage of Adobe® Flash® Player and, in the future, Adobe AIRâ„¢ — that will remove barriers for developers and designers as they publish content and applications across desktops and consumer devices, including phones, mobile internet devices (MIDs), and set top boxes. The Open Screen Project will address potential technology fragmentation by allowing the runtime technology to be updated seamlessly over the air on mobile devices. The consistent runtime environment will provide optimal performance across a variety of operating systems and devices, and ultimately provide the best experience to consumers.

Specifically, this work will include:

  • Removing restrictions on use of the SWF and FLV/F4V specifications
  • Publishing the device porting layer APIs for Adobe Flash Player
  • Publishing the Adobe Flash® Castâ„¢ protocol and the AMF protocol for robust data services
  • Removing licensing fees – making next major releases of Adobe Flash Player and Adobe AIR for devices free

Have a look to this short video from Adobe CTO, Kevin Lynch that clearly explains what this initiative means for the Flash ecosystem.

Read here for further more What it means for Developer and Businesses.

vivek

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Sony Ericsson adds Flash lite support to mobile Java

Sony Ericsson

A great news for Adobe Flash lite developer, Sony Ericsson today announced at its Developer World conference plans for a new technology that bridges Adobe Flash Lite and Java ME development platforms.

The technology, called Project Capuchin, allows Java ME applications to use Flash Lite as the front-end interface for mobile phone applications.

More importantly, it builds a connection between the phone’s applications and Flash, something that the few phones able to run Flash don’t do. Flash is just a display layer, not actually interactive with the phone!!

“In using Flash, you typically can’t access properties of the phone. But with Capuchin, you can get at information and applications in the phone and use that info with the Flash display,” said Christopher David, director of long-term platform planning at Sony Ericsson

So its a kind of a great tool that wraps that Flash content in a Java file, so it can be used as a Java file.”

Preety cool 🙂

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Sweet little “Flori” out of the i2fly studio: with Flash lite Screensaver and Wallpaper :)

Sweet little “Flori” out of the i2fly studio

Sweet little “Flori” out of the i2fly studio

Have a look to my new character design straight out of the i2fly studio, She is playing around my creative studio for quite a few months so I thought to release it and show the world.
I name this character as “FLORI” I really love this character very much. Flori is sweet, cute, innocent and naughty too 😀 .

You can use “FLORI” as a screensaver/wallpaper in your mobile phones, it looks just beautiful, i really love it. And I am sure you will love too 🙂

Download this content to your mobile phone here.

Flori as an character is also available for license worldwide, kindly get in touch with me at design@i2fly.com

As usual love to know your feelings. Feel free to post your comments/suggestions/views anything. Curious to know about it.

vivek