Today Qualcomm and Adobe announced that the BREW Mobile Platform will be integrated with Adobe Flash technology and new platform features. You can read the full press release here. This is fantastic news for both BREW and Flash developers particularly in the large BREW market in the US.
In Europe specifically BREW is available on UIOne based handsets, notably the Skype phone on the 3 network in the UK. So the platform is largely based in the US and Asia though the use of Flash technology on millions of new devices can only strengthen the adoption across platforms and screens.
For developers this means that there are opportunities to leverage this as a data point when dealing with your customers, and to reach into the US market in the future. Naturally there will be aggregators and other friendly developers that can help you to deliver content to BREW.
What a challenge, “iPhone has raised the bar, now lets see what the Flash community see what they can do,” said Andrew Gilbert from Qualcomm.”
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This week I’m in Spain, first in Madrid for a customer meeting and then off to Barcelona for the S60 Summit.
Before the main event Forum Nokia are having two days dedicated to S60 technologies, one for Location Based Services and another for Adobe Flash Lite 3.0. I’ll be presenting for a while and helping out at the code camp afterwards.
I’m really looking forward to meeting you all!
Here is the Agenda:
Tuesday 27th May 2008
09:00 Registration, coffee & getting settled
09:30 Welcome note - Riku Salminen, Forum Nokia
09:45 Using extended device capabilities with Flash Lite in S60 - Riku Salminen, Forum Nokia
10:30 Adobe Flash Professional CS3 and Device Central - Mark Doherty, Adobe
11:15 Forum Nokia Success Story - Ugur Kaner, KuneriLite
12:00 Lunch
12:45 Hands on coding session, using Adobe’s tools and KuneriLite
Refreshments served
Including a coding competition
Tutors: Riku Salminen, Mark Doherty and Ugur Kaner
17:00 Announcing the Winners
Prerequisites:
Adobe Flash professional CS3 installed (30 day trial: here )
KuneriLite installed and tested (Free download: here )
Some experience in designing Flash content
Loads of creativity and go-get attitude
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For those of you who are developing or are interested in creating Flash Lite content for Sony Ericsson devices you can now find more resources on the Sony Ericsson Flash Lite developer center. In the past their Flash Lite information was grouped under the multimedia section but given more and more of their devices support Flash Lite and the recent announcement around Project Capuchin they have created a new dedicated Flash Lite site.
You can expect more information about Project Capuchin soon on their site and the Adobe mobile and devices developer center.
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With regards to this reported problem we have been listening and working with Nokia and Forum Nokia we have agreed a workaround.
As well as that we have agreed on a more permanent fix for the future. I’ll have more details soon…
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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 here (press the yellow button).
Channels include news, weather, sports, travel, dining out amongst others. The initial seven channels demonstrate that experiences really matter on mobile devices.
Developers in Taiwan and beyond now have the opportunity to build channels for this service. I can’t wait to see this service take off and new channels and devices being added over the coming months. At launch the service is supported on 20 Series 60 and Windows Mobile devices including the stunning new HTC Diamond.
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