Mobile version of popular web tool allows Flash to be viewed on handheld devices running Symbian - and soon Windows Mobile.
Web giant Macromedia took advantage of the recent 3GSM World Congress to demonstrate FlashCast, a new technology for mobile devices. FlashCast provides a way of displaying FlashLite content on Symbian OS handhelds, offering a delivery platform for media-rich information to consumers.
FlashLite is a small rendering engine for the popular Flash format designed for limited devices such as NTT DoCoMo's i-mode handsets. FlashLite is used by FlashCast to display up to eight information channels such as weather, stock and sport. These channels update themselves in real-time.
In an audience in Cannes with Juha Christensen, President of Macromedia, told infoSync World the company is aiming to market the FlashCast technology to operators and manufacturers as a way of increasing revenue, although they also plan to sell it to end users. As well as the Series 60 version demonstrated at 3GSM recently, a Windows Mobile version is also in the works.
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