The Gadget Monkey » flash lite http://www.thegadgetmonkey.co.uk Mobile tech and the web Fri, 20 Jan 2012 09:36:49 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Flash Lites http://www.thegadgetmonkey.co.uk/2008/03/18/flash-lites/ http://www.thegadgetmonkey.co.uk/2008/03/18/flash-lites/#comments Tue, 18 Mar 2008 20:16:07 +0000 Christian Cawley http://www.thegadgetmonkey.co.uk/2008/03/18/flash-lites/ flashlite.jpg Curiously Microsoft and Adobe have made a deal that will see “Flash Lite” running on Windows Mobile devices – yet Microsoft are just months away from launching Silverlight, their own rich content browser plugin.

Silverlight is set to be supported on Windows Mobile and Symbian phones, and the move looks set to pave the way for Silverlight to be an unforgettable experience, with the Flash Lite adoption tuning PDA users into the benefits of streamlined rich mobile content.

To get an idea of how far behind Microsoft are in the mobile market, this release should put it into perspective for you – Apple have made massive inroads with their iPhone, overtaking Motorola with 2.3m shipments in Q4 of 2007 from nowhere on the same period in 2007. Nokia hold 18.8m shipments, however, with Blackberry masters RIM on 4m.

Microsoft hold a portion of the 8m other shipments; which bearing in mind how much more useful and adaptable Windows Mobile is over the Blackberry, is a bit of a concern for the worlds largest domestic software maker.

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