Flash Lite & FOMA

For those of you out of the mobile loop, there is currently a series of mobile phones here in Japan (505i/is series from NTT DoCoMo) that can play Flash Lite content. Besides the restrictions of Flash Lite (Flash 5.0 objects and Flash 4 AS), the file size cap for SWF files is 20kb. This includes the size of the html document if it is embedded. There are more restrictions, but I won't go into those here. With that out of the way, I will get to the news.

It has been announced that the next generation of the FOMA handsets from DoCoMo will support up to 100kb SWF movies! Maybe I am the only one excited...

FOMA (Freedom of Mobile multimedia Access) is the W-CDMA based 3G generation mobile service that was launched in Japan in October of 2001. Unlike many other 3G initiatives around the world that never took off (or are still trying), FOMA has enjoyed relative success and is commonly available and used throughout Japan. Data transfer rates are up to 64kbps upstream and 384kbps downstream.

For more info (in English), check out nttdocomo.com

Posted by Kris at December 10, 2003 12:17 PM