Although I attended Adobe MAX last week, I am just now catching up on the “official” releases from Adobe on various announcements.

One important one, of course, is the announcement of Flash Player 10.1 across smartphones, netbooks, PCs, and other internet connected devices.

Kevin Lynch at October’s Adobe MAX talking about Flash Player 10.1 across mobile devices, smartphones and netbooks.

Later this year, a public developer beta will be available for Windows Mobile and Palm WebOS on the mobile device end, and also for Linux, Macintosh, and Windows desktop PCs. In early 2010, public betas for Flash Player 10.1 on Google Android and Symbian OS are likely to appear.

In a related note, Adobe and RIM recently announced a joint collaboration to push Flash Player to Blackberry Smartphones and Google joined 50 other industry players in the Open Screen Project.

Some of the highlights of Flash Player 10.1 on devices from the press release from Adobe are:

• Flash Player 10.1 is the first consistent browser-based runtime out of the Open Screen Project that enables uncompromised browsing of rich apps, content and HD video across smartphones, smartbooks, netbooks, PCs and other Internet-connected devices.
• Support expected for several mobile platforms including Google Android, Symbian, Palm webOS, Windows Mobile and others.
• Public developer beta avail for WiMo, Palm webOS and desktop OSs before the end of the year. Public developer beta for Android and Symbian expected in early 2010. General availability of Flash Player 10.1 and first devices in market expected in first half of 2010.
• Support for HTTP streaming and several new mobile-ready features including multi-touch, gestures, accelerometer, screen orientation, and mobile input models.
• Increased software rendering performance on mobile of more than 87%. Reduced memory consumption on mobile by more than 55%.

For more information on Flash Player 10 and 10.1, check out Adobe Labs.

Read the whole press release from Adobe.

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