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SUBSCRIBE VOL 5 - Feb. 2006
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Engage with Adobe at 3GSM 2006

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Experiencing Life Through the Power of Flash


Events and Seminars

 
 
 


3GSM World Congress 2006

February 13–16
Barcelona, Spain

CTIA Wireless 2006
April 5–7
Las Vegas

Hot off the Press

 
 
 


New Flash Technology From Adobe Enables High-Impact User Experiences For Consumer Devices. Read more >

Adobe Announces Proliferation of Flash Enabled Products Across Consumer Electronics Industry. Read more >

White Papers

 
 
 


Yankee Group NTT DoCoMo White Paper

Under the Yankee Group Microscope: NTT DoCoMo's Third Year with Flash

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Flash Lite Exchange

 
 
 


Flash Lite enjoys a strong developer community full of people eager to share their applications and their experiences, and the Flash Lite Exchange is the best location for developers to download various types of Flash Lite content and to upload their own. Check it out >

Engage with Adobe
at 3GSM 2006

Whether you are a mobile operator, handset manufacturer, or content provider, Adobe offers effective solutions for strengthening your competitive advantage in the mobile marketplace. Visit our booth at 3GSM to learn exactly what Flash technology can do for your business. Here are just a few of the activities we have planned for you. Learn more >


 


Theatre Presentations

Attend our in-booth presentations to see groundbreaking Flash-based mobile data experiences that have already proven successful for companies like NTT DoCoMo, KDDI, Refresh Mobile (T-Mobile News Express spin-off), and Samsung.

Presentations include:

• Mobile Applications that Customers Love
• Develop Rich, Intuitive UIs in Record Time
• Mobile Data Services that Make Money
• Fashion Model/ Developer Anina Shares 'Dress Anina

 


Experience Flash on Your Own Handset

Download the next generation FlashCast data solution to your S60 handset free of charge. The solution delivers a Barcelona-specific map, weather and concierge service, as well as multimedia games and an information service that is automatically updated and cached for dynamic viewing - anytime, anywhere.

Hands-on Demonstrations
Visit one of our in-booth demo stations for a first hand look at the latest mobile applications developed with Flash technology. Meet the Adobe mobile team and gain valuable insights about the business opportunities created by this technology.

One-on-One Meetings
Take the opportunity to schedule a one-on-one meeting with one of the Adobe mobile team members to get a personalized assessment of how Flash technology can improve your business.


Experiencing Life Through the Power of Flash

Picture this. It's 7 a.m. and you've just ordered your favorite morning brew at your corner coffee shop. While waiting for your order to come up, you decide to catch up on the latest local and world news and see what the weather has in stock for the rest of the week. Instead of picking up a newspaper, you pull out your new Flash Lite-enabled mobile phone and tune in to FlashCast, a new breed of subscription-based mobile data service that you can access at the touch of a button.

You are greeted by an animated splash screen followed by a graphically enhanced list of channels that provides instant access to cached, automatically updated information from around the world- everything from news to finance to sports to entertainment. You scroll down to select the news channel, and within a split second your screen displays the latest news headlines and stories complete with crisp front-page photos. You press the right arrow key to switch to the next channel and an animated stock ticker enables you to track the performance of your personalized portfolio. You press the right arrow key again and your screen brightens up with a colorful animation displaying a sunny forecast for your hometown for the next three days. You smile, pick up your order, and wonder what it would be like to spend the day at the beach instead of at work-lying in the sun while listening to music and playing a Flash Lite game that you downloaded the other day, which has garnered rave reviews for its vivid, intuitive Flash-based user interface.

Flash technology makes it easy to deliver and consume rich and compelling content and to create great user experiences. More importantly, desktop computers are not the only hardware platform capable of running Flash applications anymore. Flash is rapidly becoming the standard for delivering engaging content and powerful applications across a broad variety of device platforms. In addition to mobile phones and PDAs, you can see Flash technology employed on digital billboards, in car navigation systems, even Karaoke machines, among many other devices.

As an authoring application, its combination of ease of use and powerful scripting simplifies the process of creating a new generation of visually rich applications and appeals to content developers worldwide. And because Flash uses vector objects (mathematically defined lines and shapes) rather than raster (pixels of differing colors) technology, Flash content scales within device categories across varying screen sizes without distortion. Plus, Flash assets can be leveraged across all platforms. This makes it easy to develop content for different devices with different screen displays while dramatically reducing development times and costs. Using the Flash Player as the platform, developers can consistently deploy engaging, rich content and applications across mobile phones, media players, digital cameras, game consoles, and full-size desktop workstations. All developers need is a copy of the Flash authoring tool including emulators and detailed documentation, as well as the devices on which to test their applications. By leveraging the Flash Platform ecosystem that includes the Flash authoring tool, rendering engine, and an established community of more than two million designers and developers, Flash technology also reduces deployment costs and delivers content and applications three to five times faster than competing solutions.

With a great range of presentation methods-including animation, sound, and sophisticated interactivity-Flash is also ideal for customized, branded user interfaces, portals, advertising, games and information services that deliver great mobile experiences and build brand equity. Not surprisingly, the leading mobile handset manufacturers have started integrating Flash into their mobile handsets to enable a new generation of user interfaces and applications that engage subscribers through interactivity, animation, sound, and graphics, and, most importantly, are intuitive and easy to use. After all, as a user, wouldn't you prefer things just worked intuitively rather than dig through a pile of documentation? With Flash, enhancing the everyday lives of consumers by delivering great digital experiences to mobile devices is no longer wishful thinking-it's a reality that is only a click away.


One-on-One meetings

Meet one-on-one with one of the Adobe mobile team members and get a personalized assessment of how Flash technology can improve your business. To request a meeting, please send an email to the appropriate contact:

Executive & Sales – Robin Guido: rguido@adobe.com
Public Relations – Russell Brady: rbrady@adobe.com



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