Here is a great news: DoCoMo’s i-channel passes 15m mark! i-Channel is the FlashCast service that runs on NTT DoCoMo wireless network. Here more infos from NTT DoCoMo.
“The milestone comes just nine months after it passed the 10 million subscriber mark. i-channel was launched in September 2005 as a push service that sends scrolling-text headlines [...]
Adobe Flash Media Streaming Server 3 supports Flash Lite 3:
“Mobile delivery to Flash Lite 3:Both live and video-on-demand streams can be delivered to a growing number of mobile phones that support the Flash Lite 3 platform. The same video experience in the browser can now be delivered smoothly to mobile devices”
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Via AllAboutSymbian, NTTDoCoMo announce their winter collection of new phones. The 905i range are DoCoMo’s high end phones which have Flash Lite 3.
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Here a new article on the Adobe DevNet for mobile: Flash Lite 3 video capabilities
As I mention on my post on m Forum Nokia Champion blog, Flash Lite 3 with Flash Video support is an hot topic and Giorgio mention it too. One important aspect of Flash Lite 3 with video will be to understand [...]
I posted some thoughts about the new Flash Lite 3 player on my Forum Nokia Blog. Will try to do a more in depth analysis in the coming weeks and can’t wait to get my ends on a Flash Lite 3 handset!!
Alessandro
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Via Mobile Entertainment, here another interesting news coming from NTTDoCoMo and Symbian.
“The Japanese operator has launched software that enables Symbian and S60 devices to use i-mode services like e-mail, web browsing, i-appli Java-based downloads and the i-channel news-headline push service. Bulgarian operator Globul has become the world’s first i-mode network to sell handsets installed with [...]
Via Wireless Watch Japan, here is an interesting view of where Mobile User Interface and mobile menus are going.
“The Next-Generation of UI’s hit the street here recently on DoCoMo 3G handsets produced by Sharp and NEC. The Vivid UI by Tokyo-based Acrodea “integrates various types of multimedia content including 3D graphics, Flash animation and full-screen [...]
If you read Tom’s blog you know that he knows what he is talking about and he has some comments on news media channels which include the NTTDoCoMo i-Channel service based on FlashCast.
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I got to play around with Device Central under Flash CS3. Finally we got a cool emulator for all the capabilities and features of Flash Lite. First it’s important to know that Device Central is accessible from all Adobe CS3 software tools and that the capabilities and features that you can use depends on where [...]
NTT DoCoMo i-channel, FlashCast service reached 10 millions subscribers after 18 months. The service is generating revenue stream of $5/user/month. When I spoke to the NTT DoCoMo people at 3GSM, they told me pretty much the same thing and that oine channel was about $1. The interesting thing is that every phone in the NTT [...]
After returning from 3GSM I had sometime to think about the Adobe announcements about Flash Cast, Flash Home and Flash Lite 3.
Flash Cast is a client/server solution for operators and Swedish operator Telenore will do a first trial in Europe. I had a chat with some people at NTTDoCoMo about their Flash Cast service called [...]
Today there were many important news from Adobe.
Flash Lite and Flash Video: the next version of Flash Lite will have support for Flash Video. The video codec will be part of the player so that you will be able to stream flash video via RTSP. This is an important step since Flash Video is probably [...]
Here some pictures from today 3GSM with all the companies building their booths and stands.
More pictures here and a video.
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Here is the schedule of the Adobe events at 3GSM:
Deliver Engaging Mobile Experiences: See the next generation of rich mobile experiences that will drive data service adoption and usage.
Develop Flash Mobile Applications in Record Time: Get a sneak peak of Adobe’s future mobile authoring tools
A Living World on the Samsung D900 (by Light [...]
Well, that’s not my sentence but his. I won’t go through the Adobe business model, but rather to the Flash Lite content. The most selling content in mobile is content to personalize your mobile phone. This is true especially outside US. The mobile phone is very personal object.
So the criticism about Flash Lite just doing [...]
Here is my review of the Foundation Flash Applications for Mobile Devices.
First let me say this, great work guys! It’s the first book dedicated to Flash Lite for Mobile Devices and I think it nailed the main point: Flash Lite developers need to think as mobile developers. This is something that many developers approaching Flash [...]
