Brandon Miniman’s recent rant about the rotten state of mobile flash apparently motivated manufacturers to improve their flash offerings – here is the round-up of all things flash:
ARM and Adobe cooperate on Flash
IMHO, one of the reasons why Java is as popular as it is is the so-called Jazelle unit found in most ARM processors – it can accelerate some types of Java code significantly by executing it in hardware.
Flash may soon get similar treatment according to Reuters – they claim that a series of optimized CPUs is upcoming:
The two companies said in a statement on Monday a series of ARM-based processors for cellphones, set-top boxes and other devices adapted for Adobe’s Flash 10 and AIR should be available in the second half of 2009.
The collaboration, part of Adobe’s Open Screen Project, was endorsed in the statement by several chipmakers including Texas Instruments, Nvidia and Freescale.
Full-featured Flash upcoming
As already stated in Brandon’s rant, the current version of Flash Lite can also be called YouTube enabler – as it is incompatible with most recent flash files.
However, this will change soon according to CNet:
The company has worked on Flash Lite for mobile phones for years, but a new generation of powerful smartphones has enabled Adobe to bring the full-fledged version for PCs to the mobile market. Lynch urged programmers and content producers to treat mobile devices with the same priority as regular computers.
Flash goes Android
One of Apple’s main competitors in terms of buzz (the T-mobile G1) is said to get Flash shortly. This singles out the iphone as one of the few mobile platforms not capable of Flash – I predict that Apple will cave in sooner rather than later…
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