Solid Mobile Phone: Flash 10 coming to most smartphones

A full-fledged version of the Adobe Flash player is coming soon to a
whole slew of smartphones. Unfortunately, Apple's iPhone isn't one of
them.

Adobe announced at the GSMA Mobile World Congress here Monday that
Flash Player 10, which is the full version of Flash that runs on PCs,
will be available on smartphones running Windows Mobile, Google's
Android, Nokia S60/Symbian, and the new Palm operating systems.
Devices with Flash Player 10 are expected to hit the market starting
in early 2010.

The company has worked for years on a lightweight incarnation of its
Flash technology for mobile phones. Adobe executives said that about
40 percent of all phones that are shipped today use this version of
its technology. But because Flash Lite doesn't allow for the same
functionality as what's available on the Flash 10 desktop version of
the technology, mobile users are missing out.

In November, Chief Technology Officer Kevin Lynch told attendees at
Adobe's Max conference in San Francisco that the company would bring
the full-fledged Flash Player 10 to smartphones.