Today at CES in Las Vegas, Sony Electronics announced their new Sony mylo communicator device, also known as the Sony mylo 2. The mylo 2 is a WiFi based device that allows users to browse the web with Flash support, check their Facebook accounts, use Skype, take photos and more. It has a 3.5", 800x480 pixel resolution touch screen and a slide out QWERTY keyboard so viewing content and web pages should be a better experience then smaller screen devices.

The mylo 2 has an enhanced web browser with Flash Lite 3 integrated to allow users to view YouTube videos and other rich, interactive web sites that require Flash support. Since Flash Lite 3 only supports SWF content that's published as version 8 or lower, web sites that are published as Flash 9 such as Flex applications will not be displayed.

This is the second consumer electronic device to ship with Flash Lite 3, the first was the Chumby back in October 2007.


It will start selling later this month for $300 and will be available in black or white. I'm still waiting for my demo unit and once I receive it I'll post more details including how Flash Lite 3 is implemented as a web browser plug-in. We will also be creating a new dedicated Flash Lite developer page for the Sony mylo 2 on our developer center within a few weeks.

Post any questions you have and I'll try to answer them.