14 DAY TRIAL // Adobe's Flash Player 10.1 is slowly shaping up as a technology that won't come to all mobile phones out in the wild, even if most handset users hoped for it to land at least on their devices. We already reported that Apple's iPhone wouldn't have it, and that Adobe said Windows Mobile 6.5-based mobile phones were not going to taste it either, and now more devices are added to the list. Among them, some of the Android-based handsets can be spotted, much to the disappointment of their owners.
According to a recent post on Adobe's Forums, not all Android mobile phones on the market today will receive the Flash Player 10.1, due to the fact that not all of them meet certain minimum requirements the company has put in place. And it seems that first generation Android-based phones are those left out of the list, as Adobe says that HTC Hero, the third phone launched on the market by HTC with Google's mobile OS on board, won't taste it either.
“All Android devices that meet our minimum s/w and h/w requirements will be supported,” an Adobe employee notes on the forums. As for specific devices, this is what he states: "Yes, we will support the Motorola Milestone. No, the HTC Hero will not be supported b/c it does not have the correct Anroid OS version and it's chipset is not powerful enough. We require a device with an ARM v7 (Cortex) processor. Examples include the Qualcomm Snapdragon chipsets and TI OMAP3 series.”
According to a recent article on androidandme, the Motorola Droid and HTC Nexus One are the only Android-based mobile phones available at the moment in the US that will receive Flash Player 10.1. Other handsets, including the Sprint Hero and Moment, T-Mobile G1, myTouch 3G, CLIQ and Behold II, or Verizon Droid Eris and Devour do not meet Adobe's requirements, meaning that their owners won't enjoy the technology when released. Flash Light is available on some of them, but that won't replace the upcoming solution, that's for sure.