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	Adobe's new Flash Player brings Flash video to mobile phones	By Sindre Lia, Monday 1 October 2007

Promising to more closely replicate the desktop experience of Flash content, Adobe today launched Flash Lite 3.

Adobe today announced the availability of Adobe Flash Lite 3 software, which now supports Adobe Flash Player compatible video and enables the delivery of dynamic Web content on mobile devices. Flash Lite 3 allows mobile device manufacturers, carriers and content providers to differentiate their offerings by giving users the ability to watch Flash Player compatible video and browse Flash enabled Web sites when integrated with a mobile Web browser.

Flash Lite 3 more closely replicates the desktop experience delivered by Adobe Flash Player. This gives mobile users the freedom to access content whenever and wherever they want, while efficient resource management capabilities significantly improve and optimize performance for mobile devices.

"Today, mobile users experience amazing Flash based user interfaces and applications with handsets like the LG Prada, the LG Chocolate or the Samsung D900. With Flash Lite 3, tomorrow's devices will offer even richer, more engaging experiences," said Al Ramadan, senior vice president for Mobile and Devices at Adobe.

Working closely with Adobe, Forum Nokia launched a new community for creative professionals today, providing Flash developers and designers with the tools to bring their products to mobile customers. "We're proud to be working with Adobe to further our mission of providing S60 Smartphones users with superior multimedia experience," said Lee Epting, vice president of Forum Nokia. "Flash Lite 3 will enable us to deliver richer content to our customers, such as videos and animated ringtones."

Adobe Flash Lite runs on multiple platforms, including S60 on Symbian OS, second and third edition, Qualcomm BREW 2.x/3.x and Microsoft Windows Mobile 5, in addition to embedded operating systems on a variety of OEM platforms. So far, more than 300 million Flash enabled mobile devices and handsets have been shipped, and Adobe expects more than one billion Flash enabled devices to be available by 2010.