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Flash headed for SymbianBy Jørgen Sundgot, Monday 12 November 2001
Macromedia and Symbian have teamed up to bring the Macromedia Flash Player to the Symbian OS, following a successful port of the player to Microsoft's Pocket PC 2002 platform.

Macromedia's Flash format is one of the most common and most widely used formats for enhancing websites with multimedia from a fairly simply degree to heavy duty sites that'll make your browser cringe. After having successfully ported the Macromedia Flash Player to Microsoft's Windows CE operating system and the Pocket PC 2002 platform, Macromedia and Symbian have now teamed up to bring the much famed format to the Symbian platform.

As a part of the new relationship, Macromedia has become a Symbian Technology Partner, and the relationship of the two companies will provide a technology and marketing framework for the companies to jointly develop Macromedia Flash Player for Symbian OS mobile phones.

"Macromedia Flash offers device manufacturers and content providers the ability to deliver rich, compelling content on their device platforms," said Peter Goldie, general manager, Macromedia. "This partnership enables Symbian OS licensees to tap into more than one million Macromedia Flash developers who will be able to create content for their devices."

Another hidden little gem within the statement from the two companies is that in addition to those who are already shipping devices based on the Symbian platform (Sony Ericsson, Nokia and Psion), Kenwood, Motorola, Panasonic, Sanyo and Siemens are developing products based on the platform. While many have uttered their concern for the Symbian platform's feasibility as a whole due to the lack of available handsets and companies not publicly stating their commitment to the platform, this shows that several manufacturers are still developing products.

Also, the grapevine says that Nokia's CEO, Jorma Ollila, might use his keynote at this year's COMDEX to shed some light on Nokia's plans for Symbian devices (the Nokia 9290 not included). We don't know about you, but we're holding our breath to see what he has to say.
 
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