Bill updated the Flash Mobile devices spreadsheet, and the total supported devices count across various handset OEMS are (according to Bill):
  • Nokia (Global) = 94 devices
  • Sony Ericsson (Global) = 75 devices
  • Verizon Wireless (US) = 19 devices
  • NTT DoCoMo (Japan) = 150 devices
  • KDDI (Japan) = 111 devices
  • [...]

I’m just back from Flash on the Beach 2008 (Brighton), and now Adobe MAX 2008 is not far away (November 16-19, actually).
In addition to the numerous mobile and device sessions this year at Adobe MAX 2008, there are several exciting (free) social events related to Mobile and Devices that you may be interested in attending:
MOBILE [...]

Adobe updated Mobile and Device sessions over on the Adobe MAX site.
There’s still time to register for November!
Here are final sessions related to Flash Mobile and Devices:
Adobe Roadmap: Video
In this session, you’ll hear about Adobe’s product roadmap for video, the Adobe multiscreen strategy, and ways to deliver better video experiences with new tools, clients, [...]

A little late, but there is FlashCast training (Verizon Dashboard centric) at Adobe this week for those willing to attend at the San Francisco office.
I believe today is a Flash Lite 1.1 one day session, and then the other two days focus specifically on FlashCast training.
Details:

Tuesday - Thursday, September 23-25, 2008
9:00 am - [...]

Via Bill:
“Next week Tuesday through Thursday (26-28 August) we’ll be offering a free Flash Cast training course for anyone interested in learning how to develop Flash Cast channels for Verizon Wireless Dashboard service.

Dashboard Client - 1st level nav
The training will be held here at our San Francisco office and Emily Kim who’s very knowledgeable with [...]

Rob posted the 1st recorded Boston Adobe Mobile and Devices User Group Podcast (BMaDUG) meeting over on his blog.

iTunes
  • Subscribe to the Podcast
(Note: We’ll probably do a follow up - Episode #2 soon)
Listen to it, here, inline:
[Audio clip: view full post to listen]
Download it:
  • BAMaDUG - episode #1 (=~ 35 MB)
Summary:
(As usual) [...]

Co-manager of the Boston Flash Mobile User Group
Some news on the Flash Mobile community front …
(Barring some remaining paperwork), I am now co-manager of the Boston based Adobe Flash Mobile User Group. Look for it to be official soon.
Alessandro Pace and I will be heading up some future e-seminars as well as working on [...]

I finally got into the “guts” of the LG Chocolate 3 (VX8650) and was able to browse around some of the file structure.
I found that like many handsets now shipping from LG, the LG Chocolate 3 (VX8650) is also using Flash Lite for the user interface (see below), which is pretty cool.

1st level navigation [...]

It took a bit of time; but Qualcomm put up there recorded sessions (Day 1, Day 2, Day 3) from the yearly BREW 2008 conference, recently.
Among many presentations, here are a few that are Flash Mobile related:
BIZ-201 - Open Screen Project
Anup Murarka, Director Technical Marketing, Adobe Systems Incorporated
Video, PDF [1.89MB]
BIZ-502 - When Social Network Meets [...]

Here is a really quick walkthrough of some the channels and content that is available via Dashboard on handsets starting to support Verizon Wireless Dashboard (essentially Verizon’s Flash Cast client powered by Adobe technology).
Here is the current incarnation of Dashboard on the LG Chocolate 3:
Please forgive the video output quality - I used own [...]