Adobe To Introduce Flash Players On Mobile Phones

Jonathan Lovelock | Oct 05, 2009 | Comments

adobe-flash-2 Mobile phones across the world are being upgraded with every single moment. Although technology had gained withering heights, still the absence of the Flash software in the smart phones had raised a lot of question over the years. The wait is over as Adobe has recently announced at a Max conference that it will be launching its latest Flash player for Windows Mobile and Palm webOS sometime later this year. According to the company’s statement this launch will be followed by the introduction of beta for Google Android and Symbian version which will be possibly launched in the year 2010.

This startling revelation from Adobe means that the company is gradually introducing its service to the smart phones. Research In Motion (RIM) chief executive Mike Lazaridis reportedly told the media that Flash would be introduced to the Blackberry series. Although not much details were revealed regarding the introduction of the Flash in the Blackberry series, still it has been revealed that RIM has added Blackberry in the list of devices which will run the software.

The introduction of Flash in these devices would mean that a wide array of applications including games, videos, location based services and social networking websites would now be readily available for the mobile users. Some technologists and software honchos have even termed the absence of Adobe Flash in mobile phones as a “great loss”. Avi Greengart, a research director with Current Analysis, cites the absence of the software on phones as “one of the great missing parts of the mobile web”.

According to Anup Murarka, the director of technology strategy and partner development at Adobe, the Flash on Windows Mobile will gradually require the OS version 6.5 and that for Android will require version 2.0 of that OS. The introduction of Flash in mobile phones will definitely be written down in the history books.