Yesterday at Adobe’s MAX conference, Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch presented Flash 10.1, the first release of the Open Screen Project. This upcoming release is geared towards improving mobile browsing into a consistent web experience across devices. This means being able to view content on your smartphone as you would expect on a desktop. Since Flash 10.1 will take advantage of any GPUs present on a mobile device, we can now have accelerated video and graphics. This will work towards conserving battery life and minimizing resource consumption.
Long story short, Flash 10.1 will be able to:
- Multi-touch
- Gestures
- Accelerometers
- Screen Orientations
- HD content
- Optimized memory and resource management
David Wadhwani, general manager and VP of the Business Platform Unit at Adobe, reinforces the trend of content transparency: Whether on a cell phone or on a desktop, it just has to work.
“[...] users will be able to experience virtually all Flash technology based Web content and applications wherever they are [...] first devices ship with full Flash Player in the first half of next year. ”
Dadvid Wadhwani, Adobe
Public developer betas will be made available shortly. Win Mobile and webOS runtimes can be expected before the end of 2009, while Android and Symbian will have to wait until early 2010. It’s unknown when BlackBerry will be getting Flash 10.1, but RIM is most probably working around to clock on it. Apple is noticeably absent from the OSP.
