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March 11th, 2010, 09:15 GMT · By

Flash Player 10.1 Will Come to Windows Phone 7

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Adobe's Flash Player 10.1 will come to Windows Phone 7
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One of the features that Windows Phone 7 OS will lack at launch is Adobe's Flash Player 10.1, at least this is what Microsoft said back in February at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. However, the upcoming operating system will do taste Adobe's technology, although it seems that an exact time frame for when that will happen is not available at the moment.

Mike Chambers, principal product manager for developer relations for the Flash Platform at Adobe, said in a recent blog post that Flash Player 10.1 and Windows Phone 7 would walk the same road at a certain moment. “Adobe and Microsoft are working together to bring Flash Player 10.1 to Internet Explorer Mobile on Windows Phone 7 Series,” is what he notes, thus putting an end to rumors that the platform might not actually support the technology.

“I don’t have an eta or other specifics right now, but it is something that both Adobe and Microsoft are working closely together on,” Mike Chambers continues. The first Windows Phone 7 Series handsets are expected to arrive on the market before the end of the ongoing year and, although Flash might not be present on them right from the start, it might arrive soon after their official release.

There has been a lot of buzz around the Internet in regard to Adobe's Flash Player 10.1 arrival on mobile phones, most of you might already know. The company announced last year that it would deliver the solution for smartphones, and has been working on making that happen, while also offering some previews of what Flash on smartphones will be all about.

However, while originally believed that all smartphones on the market would enjoy the solution, Adobe has recently unveiled that only some will actually taste it, based on certain hardware requirements. Among the phones that will be left outside, we can count the Apple iPhone, those running under Microsoft's Windows Mobile OS, as well as the Android handsets with lower hardware specs and older platform flavors on board.

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Comment #1 by: Fran on 11 Mar 2010, 09:42 UTC reply to this comment

Great. Now we'll have Flash advertising on the phone, and Flash pop-up windows jumping out at us. Surfing the web is actually more enjoyable without Flash!

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