Future smartphones from Nokia will include built-in support for Macromedia's popular Flash format - as will handsets and communicators, some day.
Nokia and Macromedia today announced the upcoming integration of Macromedia Flash Lite technology into Nokia's Series 60 Platform, which powers a range of smartphones including the business-oriented 6600, megapixel-camera 7610 and 3G-enabled 6630. Based on Symbian OS, the Series 60 platform is to become a reference platform for Flash Lite, a version of Macromedia's Flash language developed specifically for mobile devices.
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Declining to comment on when devices with built-in support for Flash Lite will arrive, Nokia spokesman Hennu Markus informed infoSync World that the company intends to roll out support for Flash Lite in its smartphones gradually. According to Hennu, Nokia will also develop the software necessary to integrate Flash Lite support into its Series 40 platform for mobile phones the Series 80 platform for Communicator devices such as the 9300 and 9500.
The decision to include such support, said Hennu, will be made on a product-by-product basis, and as such support for Flash Lite will not be present in all of the company's upcoming handsets, nor should.
Nokia's current Communicator devices, the 9300 and 9500, already support Flash courtesy of the Opera-based browser found in both devices - however, rather than Flash Lite, the devices support the ageing version 5 of Flash for the desktop. As for the company's Series 90 platform, which powers the 7710 communicator, this will in the future share its code base with the Series 60 platform and as such deliver identical feature sets.
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