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 [...]

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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Summary:
(As usual) [...]

Co-manager of the Boston Flash Mobile User Group
Some news on the Flash Mobile community front …
(Barring some remaining paperwork), I am now co-manager of the Boston based Adobe Flash Mobile User Group. Look for it to be official soon.
Alessandro Pace and I will be heading up some future e-seminars as well as working on [...]

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 [...]

In this recorded session, Anup Murarka (Director Technical Marketing, Adobe Systems Incorporated) talks about the Adobe Open Screen Project at this years BREW 2008 conference, and in particular; what it means for Flash across Qualcomm’s mobile device platform.

For more information about the Adobe Open Screen Project, go here.

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 [...]

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 [...]

Via Bill, here is a recent article from Wireless Week on some of the things to be on the look out for in the future for Flash across Non-PC devices (Open Screen Project, Project Capuchin, etc).