Caught on video: Intel set-top box running Flash Lite
At Intel’s Developer Forum Engadget recorded a demo of an Intel (an Open Screen Project partner) based set-top box running a Flash based user interface and Flash based applications. The heart of this set-top box is Intel’s CE 3100 Media Processor which according to Engadget “combines an 800MHz Pentium M core with a proprietary video processing core all on one chip. That’s about as much power as a 1.2GHz Atom…“.
The video demonstrates the Flash UI on top of a Linux operating system. It shows how you can add Flash based applications on top of a video signal coming from the tuner and run full screen Flash based applications. The future is bright for the Flash Platform! Flash on!
Adobe and HTC Bring Flash Platform to Android
There’s been a lot of buzz about Flash on mobile devices the last couple of days and today HTC announces the release of the first Flash enabled Android phone. This HTC Hero delivers a more complete Web browsing experience and provides access to a broad variety of Flash technology based content available on the Web today. Users can browse and discover a broad set of Web content and applications not supported by mobile phones in the past. People can also view YouTube videos using Flash technology, and enable full screen viewing mode by simply double tapping the screen.
The HTC Hero delivers powerful, compatible video playback performance using Flash technology, and interactive content enabled by ActionScript 2.0. Users can enjoy and navigate through Web videos using intuitive video controls. With progressive streaming of large MP3 audio files from a Web server and the local file storage, the HTC Hero provides a seamless audio experience. Support for Sorenson and On2 VP6 codecs enables higher quality video and playback of existing Web content.
This is also a very important step towards full Web browsing with Flash Player 10 on mobile phones in the future.
Check out a demo of the HTC Hero on http://adobe.com/go/htchero. I can’t wait to get my hands on one!
Read more on Mark Doherty’s blog.
Flash on!
Nokia releases Flash Lite components
I can’t believe I missed that but a few weeks ago Nokia released a free set of Flash Lite components on Forum Nokia.
The set consists of a button component, contacts list component, list component, media data component, popup component and scrollbar component. They’re all very easy to use and also customizable.
Kudos to Nokia for releasing these! Flash on!
Flash Lite Distributable Player now available in 29 countries
The Flash Lite Distributable Player solution is now available in 29 different countries. This enables you to use the most recent Flash Lite 3.1 player with the Adobe Mobile Packager.
By using the Mobile Packager, you can package your application with a Flash version checker. When you install the application on your device, the version checker is going to check whether or not you have the correct version of the Flash Lite player installed. If not, it’s going to prompt the user to download and install it.
Up until now, this solution was only available in a few countries. As of now, it is available in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Philippines, Russia, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Turkey, UK and the USA.
Flash Lite Developer Challenge winners announced. 7 out of 8 from Europe!
I was just looking at the winners of the Flash Lite Developer Challenge and was very happy to see that 7 out of 8 winners are European! Congratulations to all winners and obviously also to everyone who submitted an application! Now if only I could find the time to finish my Flash Lite Twitter client… but it’s coming. I promise.
Infotainment Winner & Grand Prize Winner:
Flash Cell Ltd (UK)
MicroFilm is an application that allows you to watch the latest Cinema and DVD film trailers on a S60 device. The application is built around a favourites based community where members can discover new films and participate in a social community. Watch the latest film releases, book tickets, rent and buy DVD’s – Find out what your friends are watching – Discover like minded neighbours – Browse through films using a tag cloud interface – Use genres and user generated tags to sort through films.
Lifestyle Category Winner:
Ribot (UK)
Little Spender is a simple, fun spender tracker. The aim is to enable even the most casual of Little Spenders to see where exactly their hard-earned cash goes every month. Along with a bit of fun and simplicity along the way, they’ll hopefully save a little money too.
Game Category Winner:
BlueskyNorth (UK)
Ficklebox is a fast moving puzzle fun as you try to match up chains or groups of colored blox for big scores, but be careful as these blox have a mind of their own! They can help you or harm you as you race to complete stages against the clock.
Description: Block matching puzzle with extra ‘flash enabled’ personality as the Blox come to life.Make chains or groups of matching colored blox to score points.
Social Networking Category Winner:
Ian Moreira de Andrade (Brazil)
Mr. Postman, the Twitter reader and publisher while on the go. Based on a timeline concept, Mr. Postman won’t let you miss a tweet: access the most important features with a single click, keep up with your friends, celebs or news live updates and send yours. No mess. No crowded information.
Sports Category Winner:
Little Big Ideas (Denmark)
GolfBox is a golfers management app. Book tee-times, invite friends to play, view leaderboards, track handicap, read golf news and much more. Featuring both interstitial apps and traditional banner ads. GolfBox is a mobile extension to the website that enable you to search available teetimes and book tee times on all Danish golf courses.
Innovation Award Winner:
Mobile Radicals (U.K.)
Big Game Huntr, is a location-based hunting game populated by user generated content based around communities of players. The premise of the game is to allow users to generate their own communities of hunts and promote social networking.
People’s Choice:
IKS Mobile (Poland)
Cubic Republic, somewhere beyond the sea, somewhere beyond the clouds live funky, little, cubic creatures. Take part in entertaining challenges on the levitating land pieces. Engage in the community, play multiplayer matches and have fun! Cubic Republic is a place of original & highly interactive quests. Intuitive gameplay makes it easy to grasp & simple to play. Multiplayer gaming on different devices let you engage anytime, anywhere. Prepare for great cross-platform entertainment!
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