No, you are not day dreaming ... it's a fact: a significant number of Nokia handsets preinstalled with the Flash Lite player are now publicly available and shipping throughout the world. Yes, we are talking millions of shiny new Nokia devices that are Flash Lite enabled, folks.

What's more, in addition to the existing Nokia Series 60 Flash Lite devices that have been circulating in the marketplace (for quite some time, mind you), this also now includes a staggering amount of newly introduced Nokia Series 40 consumer-level devices.

At the time of this writing, these devices include the Nokia 6125, 6131, 6136, and 6233 handsets models. All of these Series 40 Platform devices currently have Flash Lite preinstalled. To be more specific, all of these specific devices currently support Flash Lite 1.1 content straight out of the box with no user installation steps required.

However, not only do these Series 40 handsets support browser and standalone Flash Lite content typically created for Series 60 (S60) devices, but also additional content types, such as wallpapers, screen savers, and sub-LCD content. In fact, my goal over the course of the next few articles is to explore some of these aforementioned Flash Lite content types on the Series 40 Platform.

By the end of Part 1, you will be acquainted more with Flash Lite 1.1 as it coexists on Series 40 handsets. Here I provide a quick overview of Flash Lite for Series 40 devices. This includes capabilities, limitations, as well as some overall considerations to make when developing content for the Series 40 Platform.

In subsequent articles, you'll learn how to design, develop, and deploy Flash Lite 1.1 wallpapers, screen savers, as well as sub-LCD content for Nokia Series 40 devices.

Note: At the time of this writing, the Nokia 5200 and 5300 devices are available in some regions. These Series 40 handsets support Flash Lite 2. I hope to address Flash Lite 2 development with the Series 40 Platform in a future article.

Requirements

To follow this article you will need the following devices and software:

Nokia PC Suite 6.x (or later) — recommended for Windows users

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Devices (either of the following):

• Nokia Series 40 3rd Edition handset (Models 6125, 6131, 6136, 6233 or similar device)
• Nokia Series 40 SDK 3rd Edition emulator (using the default phone template)

Sample files:

• fl11_nokia_series40_part1.zip (ZIP, 88 KB)

Prerequisite knowledge

Previous Flash Lite experience or familiarity with mobile terminology.

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