Azingo to Offer Adobe Flash Lite on Linux Mobile Phones
Azingo's Mobile Software with Integrated Adobe Flash Lite Delivers Rich Web Experiences on Mobile Phones Including Animation, Flash Player Compatible Video and Flash-Based Applications
SAN FRANCISCO & SUNNYVALE, Calif., Sep 10, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Mobile Linux company Azingo continues to deliver on its promise of providing a complete Internet experience on mobile devices with its announcement today of Adobe(R) Flash Lite(TM) 3.1 support on Azingo Mobile. Azingo has integrated Adobe Flash Lite into its advanced mobile browser enabling the display of animated web content and videos and making Adobe Flash available on a Linux mobile platform. Azingo also announced integrated support for rich mobile applications based on Adobe Flash Lite.
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This collaboration enables Azingo Mobile customers to strongly differentiate their mobile devices by offering a richer web experience and dynamic, animated applications that leverage the power of mobile Linux. In addition, more than one million Adobe Flash developers gain an immediately available mobile Linux platform for delivering applications, which can be developed using the Adobe tools already familiar to them
Based on LiMo Foundation software and leveraging the economies of open source innovations, Azingo Mobile provides a less costly and more flexible platform for designing and deploying mobile devices.
Azingo Mobile now delivers rich Flash-based content offering advanced browsing of most Flash-based websites and enabling the display of animations and Flash Player compatible videos that make the mobile Web experience more familiar and complete. Integrated support for Flash Lite applications means that these applications can be immediately deployed on handsets based on Azingo Mobile.
"The Azingo/Adobe collaboration provides customers with the most complete mobile browsing experience on mobile devices available today. We're very pleased to be working with Adobe to offer the mobile industry ever richer mobile experiences, incorporating the latest and most innovative applications on Azingo Mobile," said Mahesh Veerina, president and CEO of Azingo.
"We are committed to providing rich user experiences through Flash across a broad number of devices and mobile platforms in the world," said Gary Kovacs, vice president and general manager, Mobile and Devices at Adobe. "Azingo has provided a fast and comprehensive integration of Flash Lite, opening the world of mobile Linux to Flash developers and enabling rich web browsing experiences for mobile phone users worldwide."
Azingo Mobile consists of a complete mobile Linux platform that includes a highly configurable user interface and web 2.0-enabled mobile applications suite, an SDK for applications developers, and mobile Linux engineering services that offer customers high-speed porting and customization capability.
The LiMo Foundation is a dedicated consortium of mobile industry leaders using an open, governance model to deliver an open and globally consistent handset software platform for use by the whole mobile industry.
About Azingo
Azingo is a leading providerof open mobile phone softwarethat delivers Internet-enabled, rich user experiences to entertain, inform and enrich the lives of mobile users worldwide. Azingo uniquely offers a one-stop solution for designing and commercializing new mobile phone products based on Linux, selling its Azingo Mobile platformtogether with comprehensive engineering services that significantly reduce development costs and shorten delivery schedules for chipset manufacturers, handset manufacturers, integrators and operators. Azingo is privately-held with headquarters in Sunnyvale, California. Visit www.azingo.com.
Azingo and the Azingo logo are trademarks of Azingo, Inc. Adobe, Flash and Flash Lite are trademarks of Adobe, Inc. Other marks used herein are the property of the respective owners.
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