Flash 10 already supports HD video on the desktop, but 10.1 -- announced this week at Adobe's MAX conference in Los Angeles -- is being billed the first to really reap the full benefits of the
Open Screen Project by unifying feature sets across a wide variety of platforms on the desktop, the laptop, and the pocket. As usual, Windows, Mac, and Linux will all get hooked up with the latest release, but
public betas of 10.1 for Windows Mobile and webOS will be hitting before the end of the year as well followed by Android and Symbian in "early" 2010. RIM's also gotten official with its
rumored membership in the Open Screen Project, though the lack of a timeline for 10.1 support in BlackBerry OS is a stark reminder of the long technical road that lies ahead for Waterloo as it tries to match the smartphone competition tit-for-tat in the multimedia space. At the end of the day, mobile Flash means nothing without the horsepower to properly drive it, so let's hope that
Tegra,
Snapdragon, and next-generation architectures like
OMAP4 start to come on board en masse just as these builds come out of beta.
Speaking of fast chipsets, the other big news out of the show is that Flash 10.1 will take advantage of GPU acceleration on a number of key mobile platforms, including both nVidia's Tegra and Qualcomm's Snapdragon alongside
ION for smooth (well, theoretically smooth) 720p and 1080p video on the latest generation of netbooks and smartbooks.
Update: Added video of the Palm Pre running three instances of Flash in parallel after the break.
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posted Oct 5th 2009 1:31AM
And the Jobsmeister laughs maniacally in the background in his black turtleneck of d00m.
what about android.?
Yah! Now Flash can be on more products slowing them down to a halt like it already does on Windows/Linux.
Begone flash, hello html5+javascript.
FLASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSH!
"...though the lack of a timeline for 10.1 support in BlackBerry OS is a stark reminder of the long technical road that lies ahead for Waterloo..."
Blackberry has some serious catching up to do.
I thought it was funny seeing the battery meter at about 100% at the start of the demo. The last shot of the phone shows it in the red.
recorded at different times/scenes and edited together
sorry you didn't think of it as funny.
Any word if Flash 10.1 for smartphones is browser only or if it there will be stand-alone apps as well?
No iPhone support! Everyone should send Apple a nasty letter!