Forum Nokia announces ’Creative Pros’ community, supporting Web development and design professionals

ADOBE MAX 2007, Chicago, US - Nokia today announced the latest phase
of its continuing support of Adobe ® Flash ® technology with the launch
of the "Creative Pros" community by Forum Nokia, the company’s global
developer support program. The new website is designed to help the
Adobe Flash community and other web development and design
professionals, grow from dynamic desktop creation to exciting new
business opportunities around mobile devices.

The announcement of the new "Creative Pros" website adds to
Nokia support for Adobe Flash Lite 3.0 as part of the Nokia strategy to
deliver a unified web experience for mobile users and desktop users.
With this announcement, Nokia provides a way for creative desktop Flash
developers and designers to optimize existing Flash desktop content for
the latest Nokia mobile devices.

Forum Nokia, the largest mobile development community worldwide
with 3.4 million registered members, will host the new "Creative Pros"
destination within the extensive Forum Nokia mobile developer support
site at www.forum.nokia.com/creativepros.
"Creative Pros" provides tools and Software Development Kits (SDKs), as
well as technical and business support, to help creative professionals
reach millions of mobile device users in the marketplace with rich
applications, content and services for Nokia’s S60 and Series 40
platforms.

S60 on Symbian OS is the world’s leading smartphone platform,
licensed by the industry’s foremost mobile device manufacturers. Series
40 is Nokia’s platform for high-volume mobile devices and supports
mobile applications and content for the majority of Nokia’s customers.

With 900 million Nokia devices in use around the world, more
than 100 million S60 smartphones shipped by all S60 licensees, and more
than 50 Flash Lite-enabled S60 and Series 40 device models available
today, Nokia is uniquely positioned to connect more people to the
Internet

The launch of the Forum Nokia "Creative Pros" site will help
guide creative Web professionals, and the more than 1.5 million Flash
developers, to target a vast new mobile market of Nokia device users.
Rich media experiences for mobile users may include: animated Flash
games, advertisements, websites, album skins, Flash video and desktop
Flash 8 multimedia content.

"Nokia is very pleased to be working with Adobe and creative Web
professionals worldwide to further our vision of providing a rich and
seamless multimedia experience for mobile consumers accessing the
Internet" said Lee Epting, vice president, Forum Nokia. "Through the
’Creative Pros’ site, Nokia and Adobe will provide Web developers and
designers with the tools and resources needed to bring rich multimedia
content over the Web to millions of mobile device users around the
globe"

"Adobe welcomes Nokia’s support for the vast Adobe developer
community working with Flash in the desktop environment and Flash Lite
for mobile content development" said Gary Kovacs, vice president for
product management and marketing, Mobile and Devices at Adobe. "Through
their support of Flash content development for mobile devices, Nokia is
helping to transform the mobile content industry by narrowing the gap
between the desktop Flash experience and the mobile user experience of
dynamic Flash content"