Adobe has big plans in mind for all our mobile smartphones and computers. The company announced today its Flash Player 10.1 which is going to be available soon to most smartphones, smartbooks, netbooks and PCs out there. In other words, as long as your mobile gadget has access to Adobe Flash content, Flash Player 10.1 will let you view it. There will be support for most mobile operating systems: BlackBerry, Android, Windows Mobile, Palm and Symbian phones. Naturally Adobe will offer support for computers too whether they are running Windows, Mac OS or Linux.
Don’t start jumping up and down with joy as not everything is available at once! In fact, the public developer beta will be available to BlackBerry Windows Mobile and webOS handsets and to Windows, Macintosh and Linux computers by the end of the year. If you happen to own an Android or Symbian device then you have to wait some more until early 2010 to enjoy Flash content on your favorite smartphone.
Is this Flash good for me? Do I really want it? Won’t it use even more resources and especially battery life when it comes to viewing Flash content on smartphones? Yes folks, you definitely have to give it a try since almost everyone is using it. You might be using Flash right now without really noticing. And Adobe has produced another fine software solution. Or at least, so they say! The new Flash player is supposed to conserve both battery life and system resources so it looks like you don’t have any good reasons to miss out on Flash experience at all. The player will support any kind of interface you wish to utilize to control your device. There is support for multitouch, gestures, mobile input models, accelerometer and screen orientation.
Adobe will bring more video games, interactive web content and high-quality media to your computers and especially your phones. That’s why at this point, Flash support for mobile phones is definitely a lot more interesting. After all we don’t carry our computers everywhere we go, but we certainly happen to take our smartphones with us at all times. We’ll be keeping tabs on Adobe to see what they can come up with next as they are working apparently with 50 industry leaders in the Open Screen Project and with 19 out of the top 20 handset manufacturers in the world. These are impressive numbers and we definitely hope Flash Player 10.1 is going to be at least as impressive!
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