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Flash 10.1: Full Flash for Everyone But iPhone [Yay for Android, Blackberry, Windows, Palm]

Posted by Mavrik | Filed under Tech

A ton of good news about Adobe Flash 10.1: Full Flash is coming to Android, BlackBerry, Symbian, WebOS and Windows Mobile. and it’ll be actually GPU accelerated, meaning you can play back YouTube in HD perfectly. But the bad news? The iPhone is missing out on the action.  “Still a closed device and not much progress there,” Adobe stated as they detailed that Flash was invading basically every other smartphone.  Also, we gotta wait until mid-2010 for the full rollout.

But, betas for Windows Mobile and WebOS are coming this year, with Android and Symbian early next, meaning you can get your mobile Hulu on before then. BlackBerry will be a bit longer, since RIM just joined Adobe’s Open Screen project. Supposedly, Flash won’t run like total garbage on phones, either, like Flash Lite. Fingers crossed, guys!

Flash 10.1 has a few other tricks up its sleeve: full support for multitouch, gestures and accelerometer input—meaning it’d be perfect on the iPhone, if Apple would ever let it through.  And just to make clear, Apple is the issue here, not Adobe.

I’m sure Apple won’t sit idly by while this happens so I guess they will stick with their “special lite version made specifically for the iPhone” and see how that pans out.

Tags: Android, Apple, Blackberry, iPhone, Mobile, Palm, WebOS, Windows Mobile