Beginner Lite created anotehr Flash Lite 1.1 game: Over the fire. “Over the fire. Push and Spray and rescue peoples from the fire with in limited times.”

 

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A new mobile search site created by Forum Nokia Champion Maxmiliano,  mobiledevsearch, dedicated to Java ME (J2ME), Symbian, .NET Compact Framework, Flash Lite and other Mobile Content.

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Adobe Mobile and Devices Developer Center site got a new look and a better organized content, check it out. A cool thing is that my blog got mention in the Mobile and Devices Blog and that it was created a section for the Adobe Mobile and Devices User Group.

The site includes the following sections:

• Home
• Quick starts
• Samples
• Downloads
• Sell your content
• Community

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Hey, my blog was selected to compete in the Top 20 wireless blogs contest oraganized by Fierce Favorites. If you like my blog you can vote it and have the chance to win a Motorola Q (which supports Flash Lite 2.1 for Windows Mobile 5) !!

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The winner of the 2006 MAX Awards is Poolside Airhockey developed by The Design Assembly

The other finalist was  MTV Mobile Italia developed by 01Design.

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The Adobe MAX 2006 was my first one so I really cannot compare it to previous ones. I tried to follow all the Mobile sessions and try to manage the schedule around my 4 sessions. Not an easy task. Some session’s schedule overlapped so I could not follow all of them. From my point of view the mobile session were all great sessions, the speakers were really competent and presented great content.
I met al lot of people from the Adobe Mobile and Devices team. A really great experience and got to discuss Flash Lite in the mobile space. A particular “Ciao” to Bill, Tim, Kathy, Rupen, Israel, Francisco, Adam, Ed and all the others.
I got to meet some of the best Flash Lite developers from all around the world, it was great. The funny thing is that some people I had email and chat talks for the past 2 years and finally got meet them in person. Fantastic experience!! There was a great feeling between all Flash Lite developers, great enthusiasm in the future of Flash Lite in the mobile space. I am sure this enthusiasm will continue since these developers are the early adopters of Flash Lite and they are the one driving the Flash Lite community
Personally I really enjoyed the conference, meeting all these people and got to see some interesting sessions. Ofcourse the big news was the availability of Flash Lite content on Verizon. You can buy Flash Lite content right now!!

I got to talk with  Nokia  people and it was great to see their commitment to Flash Lite in the coming mobile phones products.

Overall, great conference. Looking forward to meet other Flash Lite developer next week in Taipei at MAX Asia 2006.

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Bill posted some information regarding the Verzion Flash Lite ecosystem and a video on how to buy Flash Lite content using your Verizon phone.

Supported handsets:

• Samsung SCH-A950
• LG VX9800
• Motorola RAZR V3c
• Motorola V3m

Flash Lite content available on Verizon deck:

• The Weather Channel
• MovieGoer
• Jungle Jim
• Extreme Hangman FL
• NBC’s The Office Games
• Mini Arcade by Shockwave
• Shockwave Minis Unlimited
• Animated Screensavers

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I am at the Las Vegas airport going back to Boston. I will try to post a summary and impressions on the Adobe MAX 2006 conference this weekend.

Next week I am headed to Adobe MAX 2006 Asia in Taipei, looking forward to this trip. In the mean time you can check all the pictures that I took at MAX here.
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Here is a selection of posts from Adobe MAX 2006 attendees and some other from blogs, all related to Flash Lite.

Mike’s question about development cost for individual developers looking at the Verizon Flash Lite 2 ecosystem. This is an interesting topic and we will see how the discussion goes.

Also I met Hartti from Nokia at their boot and had a great discussion on Nokia phones and Flash Lite. Check his posts here and here.
Dale got a Chumby! And well me too, will post on this later on!

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Here are more pictures from Adobe MAX 2006.

Here are Scott, myself, Luciano and Marco.

Here is Dale:

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So, yestarday there was the big news about Flash Lite content available for 4 different phones on Verizon for purchase. Here are more information about it. Press release here.

During the key note of yestarday morning Bill demonstrated how to purchase a Flash Lite game on Verizon.

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Here is the list of Adobe Mobile and Devices User Group list. Alsot adobe listed on their site the Flash Lite Contest that the User Groups of Boston, Australia and Brazil are organizing.

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Check out some more pictures from today key note at MAX 2006 and some of the mobile sessions. Bill showed the new emulator for Flash Lite, great tool, CPU simulation, Memory graph consumption and some sweet effects to improve testing. In addition a device list with phone details such has resolution, screen size, supported Flash Lite player and more. Also there will be more integration between Adobe tools and mobile in general, this is great.

Words also on Flash Lite 2.1 for Nokia 3rd edition in the works!!

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Here another great news for Flash Lite distribution from Teleca: “Teleca will build regional centers of excellence worldwide for Adobe mobile solutions, and will train and enable more than 100 consultants to implement and deploy Adobe Flash technology-based mobile solutions over the next 12 months. Teleca will also resell selected mobile and device solutions in Europe, Middle East and Africa”

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Some big news coming out from Adobe MAX 2006, here a press release on Verizon and Flash Lite which will be available for the following phones: V (LG VX9800), Motorola Razr V3c and Motorola V3m and Samsung SCH-a950 and in the coming weeks otehr phones will be added.

Ray Taylor, director of product development for Verizon Wireless, said, “Verizon Wireless’ commitment to improving the mobile experiences of our customers while providing value to our developer and handset partners is an ongoing priority. By combining Flash Lite with the BREW solution which enables our Get It Now service, developers have a new way to easily design and market rich, interactive content to our customers – which includes everything from screensavers and games to comics and animation.”
Tomorrow morning at the key note session there will be some great announcements.

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I am taking few pictures from the Adobe MAX 2006 conference in Las Vegas. I will also try to blog about some of the sessions that I will attend.

Got my hands on a Nokia 5300, Flash Lite 2.0 enabled and it’s a really cool phone. Also some “rumors” that Nokia might implement Flash Lite Animated Ringtones. No details yet on which platform and timing. But for sure we will see a wave of Flash Lite 2.0 phones and then Flash Lite 2.1 enabled phones (of the same models too), as usual no details and dates.
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Hayden posted a second article on Flash Lite 1.1 Native Audio. Read it since this is a particular aspect of Flash Lite 1.1 that is very important if you need to use audio in your Flash Lite 1.1 application.
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Today is the first day, looking forward to meet some people and learn.

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