Macromedia Flash Lite

Macromedia Flash Lite, later renamed to Adobe Flash Lite, was a lightweight Flash-based runtime engine that was developed by Macromedia for mobile devices running BREW, i-mode, and Symbian.

Product history

 * Macromedia Flash Lite 1 was created by Macromedia and first released in 2003 for NTT DoCoMo's i-mode devices. It later supported Symbian and gained early adoption by Japanese carriers.
 * Macromedia Flash Lite 2 was released on January 3, 2006 by Adobe Systems, which had just acquired Macromedia in December 2005. It added support for Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless (BREW) 2006.
 * Adobe Flash Lite 3 was released on October 1, 2007 and added support for Windows Mobile 5.0. Flash Lite had been installed and shipped in over 800 million mobile devices by September 11, 2008.
 * Adobe Flash Lite 4 was the final release and only supported a limited number of Symbian^3 devices. Flash Lite had largely been superseded by Adobe AIR in 2010.