Imagine the comfort of carrying the whole world in a hand held device. With the advancement of technology, new and powerful products are ever on the rise which provide the user a whole lot of options to choose from. A suitable addition to the list of promising inventions is the hand held device. Suitable for users who work while travelling, hand held devices come with many features incorporated into the small design. The functionalities provided by these devices range from simple application processing to providing wireless connection possibilities for data transfer. Appropriate software needs to be installed in the devices to support the required functions.
A tool that is used to play flash movies with .swf extensions on the Pocket PC hand held device is called Flash Player Mobile. The utility is a standalone feature and supports flash movies to be played either in the landscape mode or the full screen mode. The new version 1.5 has some improvements over the previous releases in the area of improved landscape mode, ability to add zoom effects and the complete redesign of User Interface WM5/6.

Some of the features of Flash Player Mobile include:

. Provision to play movies in both full screen and landscape modes.
. Support for VGA and Square Screen Aware tools.
. Provision to apply zoom effects from 100% to 150%.
. Provision to seek the flash movie randomly to any particular position and play from there. This is done via the Progress Bar.
. Ability to open the flash files in Internet Explorer through SWF file association.
. Provision for the tool to be compatible with Windows Mobile 5.0.

System Requirements:

• Runs on Windows Mobile 2003/2003SE/5.0
• Macromedia Flash ActiveX 7.0
. Windows Mobile 2003/2003 SE/5.x/6.x