Adobe Flash 10 Comes to Smartphones in October

Smartphone users around the world have now a reason to rejoice, as Adobe announced at its recent earnings call that Flash Player 10 would come to their devices sometime in October. According to Shantanu Naraye, CEO of Adobe, Flash Player 10 (FP10) for smartphones will come in beta, and will be launched in October at Adobe MAX 2009.

“We are bringing Flash Player 10 to smartphone class devices to enable the latest web browsing experience. Multiple partners have already received early version of this release and we expect to release a beta version for developers at our Max conference in October. Google’s Android, Nokia’s Symbian OS, Windows Mobile and the new Palm Web OS will be the first devices to support web browsing with the new Flash player,” Shantanu Naraye stated.

There are a lot of mobile phone users that expected Adobe to finally make a move in this direction. Although Flash was already available for some smartphone platforms out there, it is only now that Adobe announces support for most of the major ones. And we say most of them given the fact that Apple's iPhone and RIM's Blackberry seem to be missing in action.

For what it's worth, it appears that Adobe is determined to make all things as it promised, since the beta version of FP10 was announced for the first time back in February, though no release date was unveiled at that time. It seems that the company plans to make its solution working great on all mobile platforms, which might be in a way the reason for which it came so late with the solution to the display.

One way or another, things are looking good at the moment, and users that own a device running under a platform developed by Nokia, Palm, Google, or Microsoft, companies from Adobe's Open Screen Project, should be able to enjoy the solution in the fourth quarter of this year. The slide from Adobe's Q2 Fiscal Year 2009 earnings presentation shows that FP10 is on its way, yet those who would like to learn more should find all details here, on slide 13.