Saturday, October 07, 2006
Adobe Flash Lite for Mobile Devices
Macromedia / Adobe released Flash Lite as a mobile platform for their reowned Flash technology.
The current release of Flash Lite 2.0 is not capable of communicating with Bluetooth, Infrared or the camera on a phone. Hence, restricting the interactivity between users. It acts more like a web-service, able to communicate through GPRS/3G networks.
The following link will provide a list of application that won the Mobile Flash Content Contest, most of which utilise web-services to provide users with information that are useful on-the-go:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/devices/articles/flashlite_winners.html
A presentation by Chanda at the BREW2006 conference outlines a few specifics of this technology:
http://brew.qualcomm.com/brew_bnry/pdf/events/brew_2006/tech501_chanda_creatingflash.pdf#search=%22flash%20lite%20capability%22
# posted by William Ho @ 4:57 PM 
