Adobe is working to deliver full Flash Player 10 technology to smart phones, including Windows Mobile devices, Symbian OS-powered devices and Google Android phones. And the company remains hopeful regarding the iPhone and BlackBerry. Kevin Lynch, Adobe's CTO, demonstrated Flash Player 10 running on Windows Mobile, Symbian and Android at the Adobe MAX 2008 developer conference.SAN FRANCISCO—Adobe, which has been working
on Flash Player 10 for smart phones, demonstrated at its Adobe MAX
2008 conference here the technology running on a series of phones, including a
Windows Mobile device.
"The rate of Web browsing has grown significantly on phones, and we're
doing Flash Player 10 for smart phones," said Adobe CTO
Kevin Lynch, at the company's conference for its users and developers. "We're
not done yet, but we have a few different devices running Flash Player
10."
The first device Lynch demonstrated was a Nokia phone running the Symbian OS
with Flash Player 10 on it. The second device that had Flash Player 10 running
on it was an HTC phone with an Opera browser
and Windows Mobile as the operating system. Lynch demonstrated a YouTube video
running on the phone via the Flash player.
During his demonstration, Lynch picked an iPhone up out of a baking pan
that, as part of the presentation, was supposed to be hot to signify the
“hotness” of phones purporting support for Flash Player 10 and said: "This
one needs a little more baking. And we do need to pass the taste test of
Apple's head chef, but we're working on that."
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