Nokia and NTT support handset Flash 3

LEADING MOBILE operator, NTT DoCoMo, and dominant handset supplier, Nokia have both thrown their weight behind the last version of Flash for handsets – Adobe's Lite 3.

The product will redress an imbalance between the world of the fixed web and that of the mobile net. With Lite 3 it will now be feasible to imbed videos in pages designed to be viewed on a mobile phone.

According to Lee Epting, a vp with Forum Nokia (Nokia's developer community site), "Flash Lite 3 will enable us to deliver richer content to our customers, such as videos and animated ringtones.

Indeed Froum Nokia intends to is supposedly launching "a new community for creative professionals today, providing Flash developers and designers with the tools to bring their products to billions of mobile customers."

Sadly, the Forum site currently shows no sign of such a community.

Curiously, Adobe's Al Ramadan took advantage of the announcement to plug three other handsets : - the LG Prada; the LG Chocolate; and the Samsung D900 which sport Flash based user interfaces.

The INQ is not sure how happy Nokia will be about that. But then Lite 3 is designed to run on the widest range of mobile OS – not just Symbian or Series 60 handsets but Brew or Windows Mobile based devices.

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