(via Richard) - The mobile web is exploding, however most websites look terrible on mobile phones. With handset detection your website can now look great on any cell phone (mobile phone) or portable device. You can also use Handset Detection to detect phone capabilities for ringtones, wallpapers, java games and any mobile content. It seems a great resource! Thanks Richard for point it out.

Bill updated his Flash Enabled Handsets Spreadsheet with the latest information for devices that are available in market or have been announced by Adobe’s partners.  You can download the PDF from this link.

(via Alessandro) – Forum Nokia has an interesting white paper, Mobile Design Showcases. Design is all about creating experiences.

(via Dale) – Adobe Pacific are running a series of eSeminars on Flash Lite, with yours truly speaking at each of them on various topics related to Flash Lite development and the wider ecosystem. The speaker will be Dale itself!

Here’s the schedule for the upcoming eSeminars:

• July 9th - Adobe Flash Lite Widgets for the Chumby
• July 23rd - Reactive Mobile Content with Adobe Flash Lite
• Aug 6th - Persistent Data in Adobe Flash Lite
• Aug 20 - Tips and Tricks for Effective Adobe Flash Lite development

Each of the sessions can be accessed by visiting http://pacific.adobe.acrobat.com/mobile, and start at 2pm (AEST - +10 GMT).

Foundation to be established to provide royalty-free open platform and accelerate innovation.

London, UK - Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Motorola and NTT DOCOMO announced today their intent to unite Symbian OS(TM), S60, UIQ and MOAP(S) to create one open mobile software platform. Together with AT&T, LG Electronics, Samsung Electronics, STMicroelectronics, Texas Instruments and Vodafone they plan to establish the Symbian Foundation to extend the appeal of this unified software platform. Membership of this non-profit Foundation will be open to all organizations. This initiative is supported by current shareholders and management of Symbian Limited, who have been actively involved in its development.  Plans for the Foundation have already received wide support from other industry leaders.

[…] Contributions from Foundation members through open collaboration will be integrated to further enhance the platform. The Foundation will make selected components available as open source at launch. It will then work to establish the most complete mobile software offering available in open source. This will be made available over the next two years and is intended to be released under Eclipse Public License (EPL) 1.0.

The Foundation’s platform will build on the leading open mobile software platform, with more than 200 million phones, across 235 models, already shipped by multiple vendors and tens of thousands of third-party applications already available for Symbian OS-based devices.

Read the complete Nokia and Symbian press releases.

(via Mark) – Adobe published the Device Profile Update #6 for Adobe Device Central CS3! “Update #6 adds 63 new device profiles to Device Central and once again includes important improvements to existing profiles, based on community feedback and data from our partners.”

(via Alessandro) – Forum Nokia published a new page dedicated to Flash Lite developers: Flash Lite for S60 QuickStart page. Check it out!

Apple recently published the Showcase page for the Apple Design Awards 2008, celebrating the best in iPhone and Mac application development.

The Apple Design Awards, held at Moscone West during the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference, recognize technical excellence, innovation, and outstanding achievement in software development. With new categories for iPhone development, this year’s Apple Design Awards will be more exciting than ever.

Take a look!

Today I found this: mobiThinking. It’s a free resource for marketers looking to break free of dotcom thinking and address a massive mobile audience.

Check out our range of creative best practice articles, videos and interviews and see how the leading lights in mobile marketing are making waves.

It seems really cool stuff.

The Boston Adobe Mobile and Devices User Group (BAMaDUG), scheduled on June 27th, 2008 at 12pm EST a really interesting eSeminar. The speaker is Andrea and the topic is Flash Lite content - games and applications - From Concept to Cash.

Forum Nokia recenlty published two great white papers about mobile design: The Value of Good Design (an explanation to what is good design and why it should be pursued in the first place) and Getting Started with Mobile Design (an overview to different aspects of mobile designing). Enjoy!