Adobe Flash Player 11 and AIR 3 will support 3D Content

Adobe Systems has announced Adobe Flash Player 11 and Adobe AIR 3 software that would enable the users to experience 3D games, premium video content and apps across the major mobile platforms such as Android, iPhone, iPad and BlackBerry PlayBook. This would also allow the developers to develop an app with the mix of Flash, HTML5 and native code to provide a powerful user experience.

Features of Adobe Flash Player 11 and AIR 3 for Mobile

• Accelerated 2D and 3D capabilities for mobile platforms (In the pre-release)
• The native application support would let the developers to deeply integrate a software into applications and access hardware APIs like vibration control, magnetometers, light sensors, dual screens and Near Field Communications (NFC)
• Simplified installation of apps with the Adobe AIR for Android, similar to iOS and simplified app version management process and testing
• Interactive and collaborative applications across devices and distribution channels such as Politifact Mobile app for iPhone, Android and BlackBerry that uses Adobe Flash and AIR
• Adobe Flash Access 3 offers complete content protection for the premium video content delivered to the mobile platforms.
• Offers HD Video quality on Apple iOS devices using H.264 hardware decoding.

The Adobe Flash Player 11 and AIR 3 for PCs would be available in early October, but you could get the release candidates from Adobe Labs if you want to give it a try. The Pre-release versions for mobile platforms would be available soon with the production release in near future.

SPB Shell 3D now available for Symbian^3 Nokia phones

SPB Shell 3D, popular 3D user interface is now available for Symbian^3 Nokia phones.This is built on SPB UI Engine that offers neat and intuitive 3D visual effects and highly responsive and natural UI.

The SPB Shell 3D also has smart folders that lets you organize the Home Screen in the most convenient way to access the most important apps in one click and there is also 3 different views. There are also home screen widgets that include 3D World Time, 3D Picture Viewer, 3D SMS Viewer, 3D Weather Graph, Calendar, Weather, Wireless switchers, 3D Birthdays, SMS widgets and Contacts Folder.

You can also add 3D panels like Animated Weather, Picture of the Day based on Flickr, World Time with Moon Calendar, Time with 60+ skins and Calendar.It also has idle animation for widgets and panels.

You can purchase SPB Shell 3D for the Symbian^3 phones like Nokia X7, E7-00, N8, C7-00 and C6-01 from the SPB official site for $14.99.

120,000 Units of LG Optimus 3D Sold in South Korea

An LG spokesman announced that LG has done very well globally as well as in Korea. The LG has managed to sell over 120,000 units of the Optimus 3D since its launch last month on the SK Telecom network.

LG also managed to sell 6.2 million smartphones worldwide in the second quarter of 2011 which is up 590 percent on year.

The successful sales could be attributed to entry level models such as the Optimus 1 and the high end models like Optimus 2x and the Optimus 3D.

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