Adobe releases new Flash software for cell phones

10-01-07, 04:16 AM

Adobe released new software for its popular Flash Player on Sunday that promises to bring the quality of live video on cellular phones closer to that of video on computers. Adobe, whose software made possible the rapid rise of pioneering online video site YouTube, said Nokia and NTT DoCoMo would use its new Flash Lite 3 in their new cell phones.

Adobe said more than 300 million mobile devices equipped with previous versions of Flash had already been shipped and it expected more than a billion Flash-enabled devices to be available by 2010.

Adobe's Flash software is installed on about 98 percent of all personal computers and is used by virtually all popular online video sites, mainly thanks to the fact it works independently of the device that the video is displayed upon.

Gary Kovacs, in charge of marketing at Adobe's mobile unit, called Flash Lite 3 "the most significant advance we've made in mobile" and said it brought Adobe closer to being able to release software versions for mobile and desktop simultaneously. "It's probably a few years away. We'll do it over the next couple to three years," he told Reuters.

Source: Reuters

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spunker88 · 10-01-07, 07:29 AM

Flash has really changed online videos on desktops.

Remember when the only way to view video was to open it up in another player, which always seemed to be slower at buffering than flash videos do.

And now flash is everywhere on the web.

Pocketbrain · 10-01-07, 09:39 AM

Okay, now where is Flash for iPhone/Touch? Hmmmm???

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10-01-07, 05:55 PM

Blame Apple.