Mobile 12 Feb 2005 05:55 pm
Flash Lite player now available for purchase from the Macromedia online store
This is great news. Now everyone with a compatible phone can start building, testing, and showing off great Flash Lite content. They can also post it to the new Flash Lite Exchange to be shared with others.
[via Bill Perry]
For $10 you can now purchase the Flash Lite 1.1 player for your handset via the Macromedia online store. If you’re a developer interested in creating and developing Flash Lite content or just want to view Flash Lite content, it’s now possible to get a player for your handset or handsets.
Supported handsets now include the following:
Nokia 3600, 3620, 3650, 3660, 6260, 6600, 6620, 6630, 6670, 7610, N-Gage, N-Gage QD
Sendo X
Siemens SX1
Sony Ericsson P900, P910
When purchasing the player you’ll have to select your handset from a drop-down of currently supported handsets and provide the IMEI number (serial number) for your handset. You can press *#06# on your handset to get the IMEI number, which is a 15-digit numeric string.
Each Flash Lite player is generated for a unique IMEI number so it will only work on the handset that has the same IMEI number as the Flash Lite player.
If you have more questions you can check out the new Flash Lite FAQ page.
on 12 Feb 2005 at 7:11 pm 1.Geoff Bowers said …
Doesn’t look like you can purchase this through the Australia store — is this an over sight or something to do with licensing??
on 12 Feb 2005 at 7:37 pm 2.Geoff Bowers said …
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on 13 Feb 2005 at 6:41 am 3.sroberts said …
I don’t know much about the Flash Lite 1.1 player. So my comments are only coming from this post.
Won’t charging for the Flash Lite 1.1 player hurt its adoption? Is this different from the positioning of the Flash Player?
Or is the player only chargeable for these hand sets?
on 13 Feb 2005 at 8:12 am 4.William from Lagos said …
Yeah, I believe charging will hurt it’s adoption. For instance, payment is available for my region, Lagos, Nigeria. But I have built flashlite contents only tested (somewhat) on my pc!
on 13 Feb 2005 at 8:14 am 5.William from Lagos said …
Yeah, I believe charging will hurt it’s adoption. For instance, payment is available for my region, Lagos, Nigeria. But I have built flashlite contents only tested (somewhat) on my pc!
on 13 Feb 2005 at 12:01 pm 6.John Dowdell said …
I believe the overwhelming majority of mobile players will come in the device at ship. Consumers *will* pay for their software, but at much lower (nearly invisible) unit costs, bundled with the device.
But bundling agreements take time to achieve. This Player offer via the store achieves two goals:
– speeds delivery to developers who have a capable phone purchased before bundling agreement;
– maintains viability of consumer-licensing business model.
(During WWW’s high-growth days, it was the developers who ended up funding total development costs, via purchases of authoring tools. I firmly believe that it’s stronger when costs are more directly allocated among the various parties who find advantage in the purchase. In this case this includes manufacturers, consumers, and often clients for ongoing services (video-streaming, eg).)
(btw, it’s great to see someone from Nigeria working in this area… cheers, William!
Regards,
John Dowdell
Macromedia Support
on 14 Feb 2005 at 4:54 pm 7.Hans Omli said …
Is this the same player that will be available in Series 60 phones?
on 14 Feb 2005 at 5:29 pm 8.btn said …
palmOne has forsaken me.
on 14 Feb 2005 at 8:06 pm 9.Mike Downey said …
> Is this the same player that will be available in Series 60 phones?
Yes. As JD said, we’re only selling this player through our online store so developers can get their hands on it now for testing and showing off their creations to others. We get thousands of requests for the player every day from Flash developers so we figured it would be smart to make it publicly available.
on 02 Mar 2005 at 3:51 pm 10.triXter said …
Cannot seem to purchase from South Africa. No cards seem to go through without an error. Are there any other means to get it soon?
on 12 Nov 2005 at 10:46 am 11.google排å?? said …
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on 03 Jan 2006 at 4:08 pm 12.Sally said …
Good news! 10$ - is rather cheap, isn’t it?
on 01 Nov 2006 at 11:22 pm 13.Chew Yong Seng said …
I want download flashlite player for my N-GAGE QD