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Flash enabled handsets: 89 Nokia, 71 Sony Ericsson, 13 Verizon, 149 NTT DoCoMo, 110 KDDI, 60 Softbank
Friday, January 04, 2008
Lots of Cool New Things for 2008
It was nice to step away from work for several days and to reflect on everything that happened in 2007 for Flash on non-PC devices. The launch of CS3, Adobe Device Central, Flash Lite 3, Shockwave Minis having over 2 million game downloads on Verizon Wireless, Smashing Ideas launching their Smashing Games and Smashing Screens catalogs on Verizon Wireless, successful MAX events worldwide and over 300 million devices cumulatively shipped (as of June 30, 2007) just to name a few.

One of the biggest trends I noticed was the rapid growth and interest by designers and developers in Adobe's non-PC technologies. Most notably Flash Lite for mobile phones but there's still a lot of interest in Flash for consumer devices like the Sony PSP. The increased number of dedicated blogs, discussion forum posts and mail list activity tells me we're getting more awareness - not only from the existing Flash designer/developer base but from other non-PC developers such as Nokia, Sony Ericsson and others.

2008 looks to be even better and I'm excited about several things including more consumer electronic devices using Flash, creating more go-to-market opportunities for developers to sell their Flash Lite content, exploring packing solutions for mobile content, all of the exciting mobile phones that Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Samsung, LG and others will announce and ship, and of course seeing diverse Flash Lite content from around the world from developers who are successful and making money.

What are some things you're looking forward to this year?

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I'm looking forward to the Macromedia Flash Player 7 for Pocket PC Content Development Kit.

By Anonymous Anonymous , at Sat Jan 05, 03:10:00 PM PST  

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