Flash Goes Android, But iPhone No Good News
Via Flash Mobile Blog, Flash is a significant part of the Web. Although the iPhone has shown a device can be successful without Flash support, the arrival of Flash for Android will be a useful boost for the open-source platform’s acceptance by consumers.
Today’s launch of the HTC Hero in London marks the debut of the first Android smartphone with Adobe’s Flash, as the graphics company gears up for this fall’s wider release of Flash for mobile operating systems. But Adobe had little good news for Apple fans wanting to see the iPhone also get the multimedia technology, Flash on Android supports ActionScript 2.0, whereas ActionScript 3.0 was introduced in 2006 with Flash Player 9.
HTC also announced it joined the Open Screen Project, an industry group created to advance Flash technology and headed by Adobe.
"As the first Android device with Flash, the new HTC Hero represents a key milestone for Android and the Flash Platform," David Wadhwani, vice president, Platform Business Unit at Adobe, said in a statement. "With close to 80 percent of all videos online delivered with Adobe Flash technology, consumers want to access rich Web content on-the-go. The collaboration with HTC offers people a more complete Flash based Web browsing experience today and presents an important step toward full Web browsing with Flash Player 10 on mobile phones in the future."
Adrian Ludwig did a nice video showing off some of the features.
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Except mr Ludwig looks like a motionless blue Lego cube for us browsing on our iPhones, wondering when apple will relieve the pain!
Comment by Raf — July 12, 2009 @ 5:03 pm