Mobile Zoo-topia
Hola from Barcelona. I'm at 3GSM this week - I'm going to take a wander around the show floor later today so I'll try and post some pictures of what I think is pretty cool, but for now here's an update on the Adobe news.
Flash Lite momentum: more than 200 million Flash-enabled devices have now been shipped worldwide, being included in over 300 handsets and other devices. Last year we were saying 80 million devices shipped, most in Japan. So the announcement this year represents more than 100% increase in shipped devices and much of this growth coming from outside the Japanese market. We're seeing uptake uptake across all the major handset manufacturers - including the LG with the Chocolate and the Prada phone.
Nice!
Welcome to the movies (sort of!): the next release of Flash Lite will support the playing of flash video on devices. Flash video is the most widely used video format on the web - being used by a wide range of site on the Web - YouTube, ABC and many many more. Anyway, video supported in Flash Lite (both streaming and cached) will mean that you can finally watch Ask A Ninja on the go!
Let's face the music: Viacom - media giant and owners of MTV, VH1 and Comedy Central have announced "innovative mobile media applications, available later this year, will deliver music, comedy and entertainment content from the MTV, VH1, Logo and COMEDY CENTRAL brands directly to handsets that support Adobe FlashCast."
FlashCast in Europe:Well, Sweden anyway. Telenor has announced that it will conduct the first FlashCast trials in Europe. FlashCast is very cool, delivering channels of content - news, entertainment, weather and pretty much anything else the provider or content owners can think of - to mobile phones. The really cool part is that the content can be read on-line or off-line (of course updates to the content need to be delivered when the phone is on-line), but its a big differentiator from other mobile web experiences.
Anyway, quick update on the Adobe news. Check back for the my "what's cool" at 3GSM.