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  • Adobe Device Central CS3 Update #7
The Adobe Mobile and Devices team released Adobe Device Central Profile #7, which, according to Mark, brings the total number of Flash addressable mobile devices to somewhere around 525.
In regards to #7; in total there are 261 profiles included, 57 new devices and updates to 204 existing profiles [...]

Via Bill:
“Next week Tuesday through Thursday (26-28 August) we’ll be offering a free Flash Cast training course for anyone interested in learning how to develop Flash Cast channels for Verizon Wireless Dashboard service.

Dashboard Client - 1st level nav
The training will be held here at our San Francisco office and Emily Kim who’s very knowledgeable with [...]

Rob posted the 1st recorded Boston Adobe Mobile and Devices User Group Podcast (BMaDUG) meeting over on his blog.

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(Note: We’ll probably do a follow up - Episode #2 soon)
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  • BAMaDUG - episode #1 (=~ 35 MB)
Summary:
(As usual) [...]

I finally got into the “guts” of the LG Chocolate 3 (VX8650) and was able to browse around some of the file structure.
I found that like many handsets now shipping from LG, the LG Chocolate 3 (VX8650) is also using Flash Lite for the user interface (see below), which is pretty cool.

1st level navigation [...]

According to some updated data from Bill, there are now 19 mobile devices on the Verizon network which are BREW enabled and support Flash Lite (2.1) content.
So, 6 additional devices have been certified and extensions are now available).
Here they are:
 · LG VX5300 (added)
 · LG VX8700 (added)
 · LG VX8350 (added)
 · Motorola RAZR V9m (added)
 · Samsung SCH-U740 [...]

Recently, I picked up a Verizon Wireless LG Verizon Voyager (aka, the “LG VX10000″) handset which I found leverages Flash Lite 2.x for pieces of the user interface.
Not a shocker really (LG is using Flash Lite on a few handsets) … Previously, in store, I had guessed it was Flash Lite, just playing with [...]

Here is a really quick walkthrough of some the channels and content that is available via Dashboard on handsets starting to support Verizon Wireless Dashboard (essentially Verizon’s Flash Cast client powered by Adobe technology).
Here is the current incarnation of Dashboard on the LG Chocolate 3:
Please forgive the video output quality - I used own [...]

Kind of old news this past week, but: “Mobile leaders to unify the Symbian software platform and set the future of mobile free” … but I wanted to post about the deal that was announced not too long ago … because it will be very important to the evolving mobile device platform playing field (IMHO).
If [...]

Device Profile #6 for Adobe Device Central has been released and includes 63 new device profiles as well as updates and enhancements to some 110 existing profiles.
If you are working with Flash Lite, you should think about updating.
This update also contains some Flash Lite 3.0 supported devices.
Mark has more comments on his blog.

Brian Frank and Rhett Woods (both with Adobe Mobile and Devices team) both got interviewed by beet.tv and talk about the past, present, and Adobe’s vision of Flash across devices.
Here are the interviews:

Flash Player Debuts on U.S. Mobile Phones and Beet.TV has the Demo — Justin.tv and YouTube Look Great!
Adobe Flash on Phones [...]