Together with the Adobe Creative Suite 4 product line announcement, Adobe today announced Adobe Device Central CS4 software, a testing and preview environment for mobile content. As an integrated component across the Adobe Creative Suite 4 product line, Adobe Device Central CS4 allows developers to test the rich content and Flash Player compatible videos for mobile phones and consumer electronics devices. With more than 450 dynamically updated device profiles, Device Central CS4 enables users to easily test content designed in Adobe Creative Suite 4 product line.


“With the next generation of tools in Creative Suite 4 and Device Central CS4, Adobe empowers creative professionals to bring great new content to a broad set of mobile platforms,” said Gary Kovacs, vice president and general manager of Mobile and Devices at Adobe. “Device Central CS4 dramatically simplifies the testing process and reduces production time to bring rich and consistent end-user experiences to hundreds of the latest device models worldwide.”

A new searchable online library of device profiles from major handset manufacturers worldwide allows creative professionals to identify appropriate devices and create and organize mobile projects for all media types, including video, images and Web content. Users can simulate content performance over a network, record a sequence of actions to an editable script, and test the script across devices to identify any potential problems with the content. By taking snapshots at certain frames during the test, users can easily create storyboards and show clients how the content is displayed on a variety of devices.

To share mobile designs with others, Device Central CS4 allows users to capture video recordings of testing sequences and export it to a high-quality movie file based on the H.264 format. Additionally, developers can easily publish mobile content to an FTP server or send it directly to the device via Bluetooth. Adobe Device Central CS4 is scheduled to ship in October 2008.

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