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Adobe Systems has announced that Microsoft has licensed Adobe Flash Lite software, Adobe’s Flash Player runtime for mobile devices. This will enable future versions of mobile phones with Microsoft Windows Mobile to display Flash Player-compatible content within the Internet Explorer Mobile browser. Microsoft has also licensed Adobe Reader LE software for displaying documents in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF), as well as email attachments and web content. Both Adobe products will be available worldwide to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) that license Windows Mobile software.
The Flash Lite 3.x browser plug-in for Internet Explorer Mobile on Windows Mobile gives users access to rich, interactive web content created using Adobe Flash technology.
Adobe Reader LE aims to enable Windows Mobile users to view and search PDF content easily and reliably by using innovative functions that improve the readability of documents on smaller screens.
Better Access to Mobile Offerings
“People want dynamic web experiences and access to entertainment and information anytime, anywhere,” says John O’Rourke, General Manager, Mobile Communications Business at Microsoft Corp. “By bringing Flash Lite and Reader LE together with the Windows Mobile experience, customers get more out of mobile access to their favourite websites.”
Flash Lite runs on multiple platforms, including Windows Mobile, Symbian S60 and Qualcomm BREW, as well as embedded operating systems on a wide range of OEM platforms.
“We are pleased to work with Microsoft to enable the playback of rich, web-based, Flash Player-compatible content and the display of PDF documents through Windows Mobile,” says Al Ramadan, Senior Vice President, Mobile and Devices at Adobe. “Flash has revolutionised the way we experience content on the web. We welcome Microsoft’s decision to extend the Flash technology experience to Windows Mobile users.”
Windows Mobile is a platform developed specifically for mobile phones. Internet Explorer Mobile offers a compact Internet browser optimised for Windows Mobile phones.
The availability of Adobe Flash Lite and Reader LE for Windows Mobile phones will be announced at the appropriate time.
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