“This acquisition extends Alcatel-Lucent’s push into Applications territory and complements its Developer Platform, Open API Service and Programmable Web offerings with ELIPS Studio – our tool that allows to develop cross-platform native mobile apps in Flex for iPhone, iPad, Android, Symbian and Windows Mobile devices (+ more in the future).

The move also brings new opportunities for ELIPS Suite – our software platform for feature phones  – opening the world of apps and APIs to the masses.”

Still scratching my head why Adobe didn’t buy these folks “back in the day”, but oh well, it’s a moot point now with the spoiled iPhone Packager plans earlier this year … still I remain optimistic if consumers want Flash on devices, Android is one of the cards Adobe can play at moment in terms of devices, and it’s not that bad of card in the hand to play out.

It’s pretty clear from what he’s shown thus far that the project (see below) is very early (no pricing and lots of mockup videos), however, it does look intriguing.

Basically he wants to turn what essentially Bill Gates has had in his living for several years and turn it into a commercial product that the average consumer might have access to. I like the idea of artists (looks like it might support Processing and other generative art from the supposed product demos in the video) and ecospace (aka an “appstore” for art) for their works. He might be onto something in the “wallframe” space, here.

My major question is price … a 30″ might be approachable, but 60″+ or more might be pushing into several thousand dollars for a nice display. It’d be like owning a second TV display. Not sure how they’d fly here in the States, but elsewhere I’m sure people will buy into it (e.g. perhaps, Japan for instance).

Anyways, the user experience, quality of display, and overall price will determine the success of this idea. I think 2 out of 3 are attainable between now and 2011.

It could be a huge success or he could be looking at many of the challenges other smaller photoframes have faced, including chumby, and now perhaps even litl. Either way, I’m sure the team he has working on it are having a lot of fun.

There’s a DROID event hosted by Motorola and Adobe coming up in September if you’re in the San Francisco area (601 Townsend is the old Macromedia building, BTW). It’s on Thursday, September 16th, 2010 from 6:00pm to 8:30pm.

Apparently Adobe (Flash) evangelists and MOTODEV experts will be there.

Adobe® Flash® Player is here on DROID smartphones by Motorola.  Learn how you can get started creating and optimizing content for a great mobile Flash experience.

Join MOTODEV & Adobe experts for an evening of networking, pizza, beer and frozen yogurt.

Anyone from the curious to the hardcore developers is welcome to participate.

Twitter hashtag: #ddflash
 
Agenda:
6:00pm – 6:30pm Arrival & Registrations
6:30 – 9:00pm Presentations and networking with MOTODEV & Adobe experts

Questions about the event?  Tweet @motodev with the hashtag #ddflash

P.S. I just noticed FROYO will be served in addition to pizza and beer. Nice to see the idea spreading.