Bill Perry (Adobe) shared some news today about the new upcoming Photoshop.com Mobile Beta service that is scheduled to launch sometime later this year (as early as September 2008) in the US market.

Photoshop.com Mobile BETA
The application/client (which is Flash Lite) will allow users to upload, view, and share photos directly from a supported mobile devices [...]

Native Flash Video playback is a feature of Flash Lite 3.x for devices and, yes, there is support for both (FP 8-VP6 and FP 7-Spark codecs within Flash video for Flash Lite 3 devices supporting it.
Thus (if hadn’t already guessed), you can create your own video players (youtube player, etc) and/or tie into other online [...]

Via embeddedflash.com and topiphonenews, seems Apple has filed a patent for: “Touch Screen Device, Method, and Graphical User Interface for Determining Commands by Applying Heuristics”.
“United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) just released a large document detailing “Touch Screen Device, Method, and Graphical User Interface for Determining Commands by Applying Heuristics”. There are lots [...]

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 [...]

Mobile Web Design
Via Mariam, she came across an article that discusses designing websites for mobile devices.
It includes some talk about usability guidelines on mobile and offers code examples to explore.
Mobile Stencil Awesome-ness
There is also a download to a Yahoo Mobile Stencil collection for wire framing and paper prototyping applications:
Download:
Yahoo! Design Stencil Kit version [...]

Here are a few Flash Mobile experiences over on Adobe.com including content created for/from: Bacardi, Mightyverse, SpongeBob SquarePants, Finetune, Sony Pictures, Johnny Walker, and Nasdaq.
- Scott Janousek \m/

Attention: For those playing … don’t worry, I’m not posting any “spoilers” here! (Well, I don’t think so!)
A while back Nokia launched an interesting site called: openatownrisk.com
What’s going on? - “Hundreds of years ago, scientists, artists and members of Royal families gathered to produce a clip of grand weirdness.
A clip stranger and more amazing [...]

iRiver launched their new Portable Media Player (PMP) called the SPINN that has (among many really cool features) a Flash Lite 2.1 user interface as well as pre-installed Flash Games.

The Flash Lite user interace in action with the SPINN control
The device uses an interesting user input mechanism (called “SPINN control”) for navigating through large sets [...]

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 [...]

It took a bit of time; but Qualcomm put up there recorded sessions (Day 1, Day 2, Day 3) from the yearly BREW 2008 conference, recently.
Among many presentations, here are a few that are Flash Mobile related:
BIZ-201 - Open Screen Project
Anup Murarka, Director Technical Marketing, Adobe Systems Incorporated
Video, PDF [1.89MB]
BIZ-502 - When Social Network Meets [...]