ASH caught this recent press release:

“STRATEGY ANALYTICS Predicts Rapid Cellphone Flash-Lite(TM) Integration; From 38 Million Flash Lite-Enabled Handsets in 2005 to 216 Million by 2010.

And yes, Strategy Analytics appears to be a legit source.

Who’ll be buying all these devices? Let’s hope Y-Gen! … and perhaps some X-Gen gadgeteers like myself.

Speaking of which, with all these Flash devices lately, I’m seriously considering getting a bandoliero to hold them all.

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If you weren’t aware, there are 3 mobile sessions next week as part of Adobe’s “Developer Week” (a string of online e-seminars next week).

Getting Started with Flash® Lite™ 3 and CS3
Presenter: Bill Perry
Monday, March 24, 2008
11:00 A.M. PDT
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Flash Lite and Flex for Tourism
Presenters: Michael Epstein/Ira Hochman
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
11:00 A.M. PDT
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Blood from a Stone: Flash Game Optimization on Low-end mobile devices
Presenter: Evan Kirchhoff
Thursday, March 27, 2008
1:00 P.M. PDT
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A while back I got a legacy NTT DoCoMo N505i (one of the first DoCoMo i-mode phones to support FL 1.0). Well, somebody was selling it for $20 (I bet it sure cost a pretty penny back in 2003). Definitely not anything remotely like the new FOMA lineup.

The problem was it came without a charger, and no accesories. There isn’t a store online that sells this sort of stuff (that I was able to find in English). And what’s more, the battery was depleted and was pretty much non-standard … or so I thought …

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Bill posted his recent “Flash Across Screens” presos from FITC 2008 (Toronto), Adobe Korea Flash Lite Global CP Event, and “Evolving Mobile Experiences” preso from Mobidec 2007 over at flashdevices.net.

Flash Across Screens - FITC 2008 (Toronto)

Flash Across Screens - Adobe Korea Flash Lite Global CP Event (2008)

Evolving Mobile Experiences - Mobidec 2007 (Japan)

You can find a cumulative list (2003-2008) of all presentations by Bill here.

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New to Flash Mobile and Flash Lite? Download it.

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This is the result of a dream and a couple hours of pixel pushing and coding.

Tools and technologies used: Photoshop CS3, Flash CS3, Device Central, Flash Lite 1.1 (don’t sigh, it’s best since the 1.1 penetration rate is high and 1.1 is fine for simple content like this).

No download is available yet here, however distribution is coming soon. Stay tuned.

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UPDATE: Never mind. I found the english translation and replaced all the links and placed some info below. It is in fact an “application bundler”.

I’m not entirely sure what this is: plusu.flash-mobile.com … but it appears to be something like Alessandro’s Biskero app.

I’m sure lis186 will post if he see’s this since that’s where I saw it posted.

Looks to be a FL 1.1 app: u-platform by flash-mobile in Taiwan.

“The +U platform
+U platform is a combination of multimedia services, which brings you latest information, games, ring tones, and new applications for you to choose!

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I came across Wolfram Tones recently. This system uses Mathmatica and your input to generate a custom, very unique ringtone. Also includes a visual representation (cellular automaton sample pattern seen below) of the ring tone! Neato.! Yet another example of why Computer Science rocks.

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Bill posted a breakdown of the Flash Lite devices in US and Western Europe, recently.

This information is pulled from mmetrics and is broken up by total Flash Lite devices in 6 regions (US, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, UK), as well as number of device models and number of addressable devices by platform (Nokia S60, Nokia Series 40, Sony Ericsson and BREW).

You can download the PDF (3 pages).

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Via Technologies has managed to shrink an integrated motherboard down to 3″ by 1.7″ (smaller than the size of a standard business card).

Nothing surprising, just a bit of Moore’s law here.

Currently dubbed the “Mobile ITX” board, it has a low power consuming Via C7 CPU, memory, and chipset with integrated graphics and video capabilities.

Why am I posting? Well …

It’s innovations such as this that might provide some the needed muscle for more processor intensive content that we want to do with Flash and other mobile technologies … of course, we can do quite a bit today, but smaller … better, faster always helps on the hardware end of things.

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