The CTO of Adobe has confirmed that Flash 10.1 support will be coming to Android phones this June and will be available for developers to check out at the Google I/O Conference at the end of May.
The launch of the Android 2.2 will include the Flash upgrade as well. In order to run Adobe Flash 10.1, the phone must have ARM Cortex-A8 processors and 50 MBytes or more of available RAM. Which means Flash will run on the Google Nexus One, Incredible, and Motorola Droid, but not the T-Mobile G1, MyTouch 3G, HTC Hero, or HTC Droid Eris.
If you have a smartphone that is listed above, in either category, this might be good news. At least the tension between Adobe and Apple hasn’t stopped Adobe from working with other companies in moving forward. Also noted was that even though Apple is off the list friends for Flash, Adobe is still developing flash for other platforms.
Those platforms include, but are not limited to, RIM, Palm (or HP), Microsoft and Nokia. That does not mean the list won’t get any longer in the near future, I am guessing it will depend on what consumers say about the Flash support, how their phones handle it and if there will be future updates.
Hmmm, buy an Apple “i” device and miss seeing the content of about 500 million websites, or buy an Android device and enjoy seeing the Internet as it was intended.
Guess which platform I’ll be going with, Steve?
Adobe flash would be support to Android. Great News..It would be made this platform growth and growth
Droid does!
If I want a phone thats limited to what sites I can use. I will buy an iphone, but I dont. I want a phone that does support sites like hulu.com. So sorry apple you will lose me and many others for given me a web experience that is less than what I can get with other phones.