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Adobe Flash 10 Headed To Smartphone Platforms In October |
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Written by Hideo
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Tuesday, 23 June 2009 |
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 Adobe CEO Shantanu Naraye let it slip during an investor call that the company plans to debut Flash 10 for smartphones running the Android, Symbian S60, Palm webOS, and Windows Mobile platforms. Unfortunately no word on iPhone and Blackberry support.
"We are bringing Flash Player 10 to smartphone
class devices to enable the latest web browsing experience. Multiple
partners have already received early versions of this release and we
expect to release a beta version for developers at our MAX Conference
in October.Google's Android, Nokia's Symbian
OS, Windows Mobile, and the New Palm Web OS will be among the first
devices to support web browsing with the newest Flash player.
Companies including ARM, NVIDIA, Broadcom, Intel, Texas Instruments, and Qualcomm
are optimizing Flash player for their processors and platforms. We
continue to see momentum for the open stream project and now have 25
participants on board to use Flash as a consistent run-time across
screens." said Naraye.
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beta version of the Flash 10 player will, of course, enable these
devices to have a much richer mobile Internet browsing experience. That
will include the ability to play back some embedded video on Web pages.
Once this software debuts, owners of smartphones other than the iPhone and Blackberry
may actually have something to crow about. Thing is, it will without a
doubt open new chapter of web surf on mobile platforms, but will also
open a door for all ofthose pesky flash banners.
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