Mobile World Congress Update

Posted by Mark Doherty in Mobile World Congress on February 15, 2011

It’s Day 2 of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, and what a great start to the show. We have announced that Flash Player 10.1 is installed now on over 20 million devices, and AIR is available on 84 million. Those numbers are incredible, and well above expectations for the first six months after launch. In 2011 I predict that we’ll be looking at huge adoption curve throughout 2011 and I’ll be sure to update you as we grow the install base.

Most importantly, you have all been very busy it seems, with thousands of applications shipping across these devices and more to come.

Blackberry

The Blackberry Playbook is really becoming a hit with developers, everyone at the Blackberry events here is building something. We’re hearing great things from the community here, and this coming Friday we’ll have our yearly “AdobeDays” event at the Barcelona office. Let’s hope I make it until then!

Everyone on the stand has been hugely impressed with the device capabilities, and we’ve spent a lot of our time speaking with Java and Blackberry developers that are planning to create their first applications in Flash for the Playbook.

Samsung

We saw the launch of the aptly named “Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1″, and the Galaxy S II – which has really stolen the show in terms of design. Here is Adobe’s David Whadhwani, SVP/GM Creative Interactive Solutions BU on stage at the Samsung launch and talking about the successful relationship that we’ve had with Samsung for years now.

David also take the opportunity to remind the audience about AIR 2.5 for TV, and Samsung’s commitment to delivering support for your applications across their latest ranges – and that includes BlueRay Players. Samsung are almost the definition of why we created the Open Screen Project, we’ll obviously be talking a lot more about these devices later this year.

Adobe AIR 2.5, Blackberry, Flash Player 10.1, Mobile World Congress 2011, RIM, Samsung

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Radar running on the Samsung Galaxy Pad (European)

Posted by Mark Doherty in Android, Flash Player, Mobile Content on September 21, 2010

Last week I visited Toronto in Canada for the second FITC Mobile event, part of the Mobile Innovation week held in the city. As always the event was a great success and it was nice to meet up with old friends, and hear about the exciting new ideas in the mobile industry.

Samsung were a sponsor this year again, and thankfully the team had brought along a couple of Samsung Galaxy Tab devices for the attendees to play with. The device is very nice, light in the hand and with a beautiful bright screen – the whole experience is very fluid. Something that I missed at the launch was the inclusion of a phone, so it was great to see added functionality and play with the browser.

With a little arm twisting I managed to install the very latest AIR2.5 beta for Android and test out my application, Radar.

On the way to Canada I have been playing with dynamic layouts, and trying to figure out how the application will scale for different screen sizes. At the time I was only thinking about the desktop, Nexus One and Droid 2 – but hey, why not a tablet

The video below shows the experience running well, although the demo gods were circling…

Terry Ryan, Paul Trani and Brian Rinaldi were also at the event, it was great to catch up with the US Evangelists. In fact Paul also recorded a great video demo of Flash in the browser on the Samsung Tablet here: