Touting a linkage between application developers and designers, Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch demonstrated the company's planned product at the Web 2.0 Expo conference in San Francisco. Nokia's Anssi Vanjoki, executive vice president at the company, cited planned form factors for mobile devices, which included a wearable wristband unit. He also hailed location-based services and the planned Ovi applications store, set to debut in June, that will bring applications to consumers.

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Flash Catalyst currently is in a beta release phase but is due soon, Lynch said. "We can enable people who do design to express not only what an application should look like but how it should feel to interact with," Lynch said. Users can import a design from a picture, such as from Adobe Illustrator, bring shapes into Catalyst, and turn them into the beginnings of an application. Lynch also noted

At Nokia, the company is eyeing location-based services that will require a mobile computer-like device that marries "virtuality with reality," Vanjoki said. "Nokia has a big lead in this development," he said.

Users, meanwhile, will see new form factors for wireless devices, such as an ear device or a wearable device similar to a bracelet, and some devices even will be self-cleaning.