The goals of the fund

Both Nokia and Adobe are working to raise awareness of Flash as a viable cross-platform mobile runtime and to highlight the capabilities of Nokia platforms. For developers - the advantages lie with portability of assets and the ability to more easily extend desktop projects into mobile platforms.

The conditions have never been better, thanks to the current availability of Nokia solutions for publishing, discovery, and distribution of mobile applications and content.

The Open Screen Project Fund was created to help highlight these solutions as well as to raise developers' awareness of mobile platforms as an essential part of wider media campaigns. Funds will be granted to offset development costs of projects judged as having merit and as furthering the goals of the Open Screen Project initiative.

The advantage of Nokia platforms combined with Adobe runtime technology

Flash Lite technology is integrated into well over 300 million devices shipped by Nokia. Nokia uniquely offers Flash developers a truly global reach, with huge volumes and with platforms that reach all price points in the market.

Adobe has in Flash one of the most widely deployed runtimes on the web. It sets a high standard for streaming media and interactive content, Flash also boasts an impressive developer base - of nearly 2 million.

These factors combine to offer:

• The ubiquity of Nokia platforms — develop once, deploy globally.
• The quality and maturity of the Adobe toolset — building on a large designer and developer base.
• Extensive cross-platform and cross-device support.

Platform integration of Flash technology by Nokia delivers many key advantages:

• An easy distribution model for S60 and Series 40, using the SIS and NFL formats, which means content looks and acts like any other application.
• S60 Platform Services, which add functionality to S60 devices.
• Great media capabilities, including seamless integration with the platform, such as Flash video playback.
• A Flash Lite plug-in to the WebKit-based Nokia Mobile Browser.
• Support for desktop Flash 8 content.
• Localisation of the Flash Player to all language variants, underpinning global platform integration.