Billy Perry, Adobe’s evangelist for mobile and devices, shares the latest Strategy Analytics report. And it’s quite encouraging, well not for every country - for example Canada is pretty disappointing - but for the usual suspects. Japan is paramount as expected.
Forcasted installed base of flash lite: “Here you go, a complete breakdown of the forecasted installed base of Flash Lite devices by region, country and version.
That’s very good news for us at Playyoo. Since our games need Flash Lite right now. Aside from creating games you can do a lot more with Flash Lite like themes, screensavers, and applications of course. There is even a Twitter app out there.
Flash Lite penetration in 2007 - 91% growth: “Statregy Analytics have just published a report on Flash Lite penetration for 2007 showing 91% growth.
Key Findings:
- 1.4 billion mobile phones will support Flash Lite by 2010
- 46% of mobile phones in 2010 will support Flash Lite
- 301 million devices shipped since 2003
- 270.9 million mobile phones run Flash Lite currently
- Shipments in W. Europe and Asia will exceed Japan shipments in 2008
Awesome, Samir just uploaded his 4th game to Playoo. It seems as if he is eager to win the contest cash prizes.
Samir is from India. It only fits that there was a panel at Stanford titled: “Indian Wireless Market - Why Mobile? Why India?, Why Now?”
Well Bill Perry’s video is not mobile games related and we don’t do themes but it shows the niceties you can do with Flash Lite. It’s also our technology of choice for Playyoo’s casual games.
Bill Perry on Sony Ericsson S500i - Flash Lite Themes