Flash Devices
Flash enabled handsets: 89 Nokia, 71 Sony Ericsson, 13 Verizon, 149 NTT DoCoMo, 110 KDDI, 60 Softbank
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
New KDDI Handsets with Flash Lite 2.0
KDDI autumn & winter 2007 collection

KDDI in Japan has announced their upcoming autumn & winter 2007 collection of devices and all of them have Flash Lite 2.0 pre-installed for supporting downloadable content and personalization. Besides their new handsets having Flash Lite pre-installed, the interactive product experience on their web sites looks like it's using Papervision 3D and Flash 9- pretty cool.

The new handsets include several color variations of each of the following models:
  • Infobar 2
  • W56T
  • W55T
  • W54S
  • W54SA
  • W53H
  • W53K
Some of these devices may be using Flash Lite for the UI but I'm not sure - it's something I trying to get more information on and will share once I find out.

There's a handy device table on their site which provides more details about all of their devices including Flash Lite support. You'll notice there's a column that says "Flash Lite" and one of four icons for each handset:
  • Black filled circle = Flash Lite 2.0 (includes Chaku-flash support)
  • Circle with dot inside = Flash Lite 1.1 (Chaku-Flash support)
  • Empty circle = Flash Lite 1.1 (no Chaku-Flash support)
  • Dash ('-') = no Flash Lite support
While I'm here in Tokyo I'm going to try to see if I can take a look at these devices and to get some ideas of the types of Flash Lite content that local developers are creating.

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Ciao Bill,

do you know where I can get the UAProfile for KDDI phones?

Alessandro

By Anonymous Alessandro , at Wed Oct 31, 08:12:00 AM PDT  

Bill, thanks for posting this.

If you could manage some video clips, that would be very useful ... if not, no worries.

By Anonymous Scott Janousek , at Wed Oct 31, 09:42:00 AM PDT  

**Alessandro - not sure, let me ask our Japan team.

**Scott - didn't get a chance to find these phones in Tokyo. May be back in Tokyo before end of the year - maybe then.

By Blogger Bill , at Sun Nov 04, 12:10:00 PM PST  

No problem.

By Anonymous Scott Janousek , at Wed Nov 14, 10:34:00 PM PST  

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