Great CES we had this year!
January 6: Google Phone supporting Flash 10 (and 10.1 soon)
January 7: Motorola Droid supporting Flash 10.1
January 8: Flash 10.1 announced for webOS in February
A beta version of Flash should be available soon from the App Catalog for webOS as well.
Note: Palm is also member of the Open Screen Project
Announced as well at the CES 2010 in Las Vegas, Motorola Droid Phone is able to run Flash 10.1 !
The full Flash experience on mobile is beginning!
Announced at the CES 2010 in Las Vegas, the Nexus One Google’s Android phone (aka Google Phone) manufactured by HTC is powered by a the Qualcomm ’s Snapdragon 1Ghz powerful chipset.
The Nexus One is one of the achievements of the Open Screen Project where Google, Qualcomm, Adobe and many other top companies participe.
Touch screen management, full screen in-browser Flash gaming experience, Flash embedded video, Flash banners … everything like in a PC, very reactive … awesome - see video below.
Note: Flash 10.1 is not available for Android yet, Google will push it out for free via the web as soon as it’s ready.
Reminder: in June 2009, HTC Hero was the first device supporting Flash 9.
Presented during the Adobe MAX in Los Angeles, Adobe makes available new versions of AIR and Flash Player in the labs:
Announced during the last Adobe eSeminar (recording here: >0:28:10) by Mark Doherty, Adobe decided to stop the Flash Distributable Player and focus its effort on Flash 10.x.
=> No more Adobe Mobile Packager to package mobile application.
Reasons: Adobe reorg (600 people in 12/2008) and 680 people fired in 11/2009 and “long term” technology vision.
As a reminder, the Distributable Player was created as a system to allow end users to download on-the-fly the latest Flash Player adapted to their devices … including the upcoming Flash 10.x
What about all the partners and the whole developer community who trust on Adobe? Nokia seems a little bit alone now with their Flash Lite presinstalled players and their s40 and s60 packaging offer.
An ardent supporter of Flash and Adobe technologies
Also covered by: Mark Doherty - Alessandro Pace (Biskero) - Spanish Mobile Adobe User Group (BlocketPC) - Mariam Dholkawa - Scott Janousek - Leonardo Risuleo
Kevin Lynch, invited at NewTeeVee Live, comes back on Flash Platform and the Adobe Monetization offer.
Some interesting stuff to listen, especially about HTLM5.
Expanding on the Flash partnership and the Open Screen Project support previously announced, RIM has teamed up with Adobe yet again to unveil tight integration with Creative Suite 5 with direct file exports for BlackBerry-optimized formats and the creation BlackBerry-specific web layouts.
Also announced:
Source here
According Ovum Research, Adobe Flash has achieved the best penetration rate on Smartphones.
77 devices were reviewed: 41 support Flash - 25 are Symbian based.
Even the article is a little wrong about Android support, it demonstrates the foray of Flash on mobile.
After France2 - Rolland Garros tennis tournament & Tour de France bycicle tour, Silverlight has been selected by Canal+ and France24 for an annual management of their streaming HD video offers: FootPlus and France24 HD Player.
Another bad piece of news for Flash streaming video
Flash Widgets company launched two applications built in Flash Lite - CNN Mobile which deliver video news and Twittle a thin Twitter client - and available on OVI store.
CNN Mobile application has been funded by Open Screen Project.
Ex Founder & CEO of Mobitween, now part of Zed group where I'm acting as Head of Flash.
WP Cumulus Flash tag cloud by Roy Tanck requires Flash Player 9 or better.
iPhone optimized version available in Safari - just go to flashisbeautiful.com
