Exciting times for Flash developers in Taiwan and soon abroad. Chunghwa Telecom, the largest mobile operator in Taiwan, has just launched "Channel Me" which is their branded version of Adobe's Flash Cast solution. Most all of the text and channel content is localized in Traditional Chinese and providers users there with information that's relevant to them. This service launched yesterday with quite a few channels supporting over 20 handsets on Nokia S60 and Windows Mobile, including the brand new HTC Touch Diamond.

You can visit the Channel Me site to get idea of the user experience for the service and samples of some of the channels.

Currently Flash developers in Taiwan can start creating additional channels for the Channel Me service and in the future their may be an opportunity for developers outside of Taiwan to create channels for those subscribers. Once we have more information about this we'll be sharing it with the community.

I'm waiting for a colleague to bring back one of the Channel Me devices so I can post a video of the actual UI and service. In the mean time here is a photo from the launch event.


One of the cool things that Chunghwa Telecom did during the launch event to promote the service was to bring in the top 10 contestants from this year's Taiwan Idol (similar to American Idol) to show the Channel Me service on their HTC Touch handsets.

So to summarize, Flash Cast is live:

• with NTT DoCoMo in Japan (iChannel)
• with Chunghwa Telecom in Taiwan (Channel Me)
• and soon with Verizon Wireless in the US (Dashboard)

Today Adobe Systems Incorporated and Chunghwa Telecom (Taiwan) today announced a partnership to deliver Adobe FlashCast technology to more than eight million subscribers in Taiwan. The new offering is expected to deliver rich data services across the Chunghwa Telecom network before the end of 2007.

You can read the full press release here.

It's great to see another operator outside of Japan adopt FlashCast technologies from Adobe and to ultimately allow their subscribers to more easily and quickly discover various types of information that they're interested in either as basic or premium channels. We'll have more information to share about Chunghwa Telecom's FlashCast implementation later this year.

If you have any questions you can post them here and I'll answer them as best as I can.