Adobe Announces Full Flash Player for BlackBerry Devices & 35 Funded Flash Apps
Tomorrow at MAX, Adobe's worldwide developer conference, Adobe Systems
Incorporated will announce with partner Research In Motion (RIM) their progress in bringing Flash support to BlackBerry devices.
RIM, the company behind BlackBerry's wireless platform, including email and touchscreen technologies, is joining Adobe's Open Screen Project, a 50-organization-members-strong organization that aims to promote better apps for richer mobile, television, and desktop browsing experiences for users.
With this announcement, 19 out of the top 20 mobile handset manufacturers are now collaborating with Adobe to integrate Flash technology into their devices.
Also at MAX, Adobe and Nokia are jointly announcing the funding of more than 35 multi-screen applications as part of the Open Screen Project Fund. Several apps will be demonstrated at the show, including Twitter client Twittle, interactive map MyFestivalGuide, entertainment app SmartGrooves, frequent flyer app MileBlaster, real-time audience feedback app Live TalkBack, and many more.
Adobe is also announcing support for HTTP streaming and several new mobile-ready features, including multi-touch, gestures, accelerometer, and screen orientation.
Flash Player 10.1 is the first consistent browser-based runtime from the Open Screen Project that offers browsing of Flash-based web apps, HD video, and other content on smartphones, netbooks, other Internet-enabled devices.
Flash support is also expected for several other mobile platforms, including Google Android, Symbian, Palm webOS, and Windows Mobile. A public developer beta will be available for Windows Mobile, webOS, and desktop operating systems before the end of the year. A public developer beta for Android and Symbian should be announces early in 2010, with general availability and publicly available devices coming in the first half of 2010.
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Adobe stepping it up a notch - cheers to my buddies at RIM!
Unless Apple is keeping Flash support as an upcoming surprise, it will no longer be able to claim offering the fullest web experience on mobile devices. For shame...
This could change the iPhone vs. Blackberry equation for some users, Not for me though, seems very vaporware right now and I can't see the point of it for the future. Will be nice to see how battery life and user experience pan out. The 35 app part of the story hints at the obvious problem: you need to make a special flash app for mobiles, which somehow seems to defeat the whole purpose. A good HTML+CSS+JavaScript application can run almost everywhere if well written, and it gets even better with HTML5. I dare anybody to make a web-based e-mail app as good as Gmail for iPhone/Android in Flash.
Posted by: Ignacio Rodriguez de R,
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October 4, 2009 7:27 PM
Beware. I just updated flash player and it installs the Google toolbar without your permission. It never asks. Its an automatic install, it doesn't download, flash player just installs and never gives you a choice for the Google toolbar.
That's a nice feature to be added but the real value, usability and popularity can only be judged after this service becomes live. Sending flash based greetings will not be dependent on PCs anymore.
Finally :) . Now all I need is Motorola to announce the Droid and I have my perfect phone :) . Well, battery life isn’t going to be great. Even playing a movie on the phone’s media player doesn’t last longer than 5 hours, what makes people think that flash will be better???
@Ignacio, try and get it, the essence of Flash on Mobile is for you to develop rich user interfaces / experience standalone apps and not necessarily for rendering web based flash apps.
That's why they are funding those apps; just as you have iPhone apps that just can't be replaced by browser based apps, they are 2 different things.
It easier to develop standalone contents with Flash, (with large user base) than having to learn different programming language for all these different devices. You develop once and it runs same on all these devices with little tweaks. The reason mobile apps has never gone forward is that the whole industry is fragmented, there are different OS for different phones so to develop, you have to study Symbian for Nokia, VS for Windows Mobile, Objective C for iPhone, etc etc... and these languages have great varying differences especially when it comes to rendering UI.
In essence, the whole idea is to let people develop once, and port to many screens with one language.
Imaging PC manufacturers having different OSes, Dell, Viao, HP, Gateway etc? i doubt we would have reached this level in the computer industry.
Hmm does this mean that flash will need a seperate app to use? Or will it be useable in standard web browser applications? Hopefully Apple will be joining this list otherwise this could be a leg up for RIM and co.
Missing from the line-up - at least so far - is Apple. Take a look at what Harry McCracken has to say about that - is Flash support on phones a promise for a multimedia future, or just going to end up meaning those annoying Flash-based ads will also play on your phone, sucking your battery power?
Flash support for Blackberry? Great, but it's long overdue and Blackberry is already suffering for lack of it... Checkout the difference in User Satisfaction between Blackberry and other handhelds: http://tinyurl.com/ydts9o8 For Blackberry's sake, and their customer's, I hope Adobe and RIM can nail this one quickly!
"Missing from the line-up - at least so far - is Apple. Take a look at what Harry McCracken has to say about that - is Flash support on phones a promise for a multimedia future, or just going to end up meaning those annoying Flash-based ads will also play on your phone, sucking your battery power?"
lmao
Who needs flash on the mobile anyway? My iPhone is the only device that doesn't require flashblock and I want it to stay that way.
Apple fanboys please stay on your own forrums thanks I beleive IBlow apple is one. As for flash on mobile thank god and I hope this alliance is takeing browser games into consideration as they are on the rise. Again Iphone users find a way to defend there ignorance
Reisezubehor, you said you just installed flash correct? Was it for your BB? And if so where can I find the link? Have wanted flash since switching to BB after a short but horrible experiance with Palm.
Since I'm a truck driver I can't always access CB so please reply directly to my personal E mail address.
Trevor_Hoagland@msn.com
Thanks
When I try to click on the user agreement to get the flash player or any flash item it don't show the button to click on to agree and I have to use cntrl alt del to get out of the license agreement. Please tell me how to accept the agreement I have tried enter or just clicking the mouse but the agreement button just don't show on my monitor Screen.
Please Help from Ken Walker
When I try to click on the user agreement to get the flash player or any flash item it don't show the button to click on to agree and I have to use cntrl alt del to get out of the license agreement. Please tell me how to accept the agreement I have tried enter or just clicking the mouse but the agreement button just don't show on my monitor Screen.
Please Help from Ken Walker
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Its about this the Blackberry got a flash player. As a blackberry developer this opens up a large amount of new possibilities for application design. I can't wait to see what other developers come out with.
FINALLY ALL PORN WILL BE VIEWABLE ON A MOBILE DIVICE =D
About time...
Holy Moly I can just see me waiting in the doctors office watching tvgorge.com
If it ever happens, that is (sigh) It sounds like a bait and switch...
The original was in October..
Hmmmm... February now....
Its only been 5 months