Video review of the Amp’d Q with Flash Lite UI

Posted on April 30th, 2007 by admin.
Categories: Amp'd, Flash Lite.

I know many of you are still looking for pics/vids of the Amp’d Q Flash Lite UI in action. Noah at Phonedog.com did a short 60 second video review of the Amp’d Q that you can see on YouTube

Also be sure to check out the cool Q microsite at ampd.com (all done in Flash, of course). The microsite includes a preview of the upcoming Q commercial! :)

[tags]Amp’d, Motorola Q, Flash[/tags]

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Motorola Q Amp’d Edition is available on the Amp’d Website

Posted on April 10th, 2007 by admin.
Categories: Amp'd, Flash Lite.

Yes folks, the time has arrived. You can now order your [tag]Flash Lite[/tag] enabled Amp’d Q directly from get.ampd.com

Have fun!

[tags]Amp’d, Flash Lite, Motorola, Q, mobile[/tags]

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I can’t wait for mobile Flash Video

Posted on April 9th, 2007 by admin.
Categories: Adobe, Amp'd, Flash Lite.

So as everyone probably knows by now, Flash Lite 3 will feature Flash Lite video support.

There are some pretty obvious applications of this new feature (youtube anyone?) but there is a lot more to it than that.

For me personally I am looking forward to the ability to easily overlay graphics on video. Real estate is at a premium on most mobile device screens and anything you can do to get two things to exist in the same space is a bonus. The first thing I’m going to do when Flash Video hits mobile is slap video controls and state messages (buffering, paused, playing) on top of the video so I can save some space. This is especially true for fullscreen video like we do for the Amp’d Motorola Q. The ability to bring up controls on top of the video in Flash is going to be killer.

Speaking of controls, the ability to control video should be greatly improved with FLV support. With the current device video solution in Flash Lite 2.1 you can only do so much. Want to scale your video? Good luck with that one. Want to scrub through the video? You’d better hope the seek() functionality is implemented on your target device. With FLV support we should have a whole new realm of options available, I only worry about performance. :) All indications point to the Flash Lite 3 client being quite a bit heavier than its predecessor, let’s hope that doesn’t hurt the player’s adoption rate.

[tags]Flash Lite, FLV, Amp’d, Adobe[/tags]

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Amp’d announces Motorola Q with Flash Lite

Posted on March 25th, 2007 by admin.
Categories: Amp'd, Flash Lite.

Well, the news is finally out. After many months of super-secret development, the [tag]Flash[/tag] version of [tag]Amp’d[/tag] Live UI has officially been announced. It’s been fun and challenging getting that product out, and I’m still nervous about the upcoming reviews, but I can’t resist telling folks about it :)



So, look for the Amp’d Q in stores near you in a couple of weeks.



[tags]Motorola Q, Amp’d, Flash Lite[/tags]

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