Adobe Flash Lite was a lightweight version of Adobe Flash Player, a software application published by Adobe Systems for viewing Flash content.
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11 Facts About Flash Lite
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Flash Lite operates on devices that Flash Player cannot, such as mobile phones and other portable electronic devices like Wii, Chumby and Iriver.
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Flash Lite allows users of these devices to view multimedia content and applications developed using Adobe's Flash tools, which had previously been available only on personal computers.
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Flash Lite is a development technology implemented at the client-side, or user interface layer.
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Flash Lite should not be considered a mobile operating system like Symbian OS, Windows Mobile, BlackBerry OS, iOS, Bada or Android: it is a technology for developing applications that run on a mobile operating system.
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Unlike SVG, Flash Lite can add audio and interactive elements without the use of other technologies such as JavaScript.
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Flash Lite 3 is based on Flash 8, which lessens the gap between mobile and desktop content by supporting H 264 video standard, as well as On2 VP6 and Sorenson video codecs.
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At that time, Flash Lite had been available to mobile users in Japan and Europe for some time prior to its availability in the United States.
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In October 2006, Verizon Wireless announced support for Flash Lite, making it the first operator in the US to adopt the technology.
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Flash Lite was initially available on four handset models as a BREW extension.
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Flash Lite noted Adobe's acquisition of certain vector rendering technology by Actimagine, intended to reduce the Flash Lite player's memory footprint in future versions.
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