Flash Player 10.1 for Mobile Available

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Flash Player 10.1 for Mobile is here! Fully redesigned with new performance and mobile-specific functionality, mobile users will now be able to experience the full web — games, animations, RIAs, data visualizations, music, video, audio and more.

Flash Player 10.1 beta is already one of the top free apps on Android Market today and will be available as a final production release for smartphones and tablets once users are able to upgrade to Android 2.2 “Froyo.” Supported devices are expected to include the Dell Streak, Google Nexus One, HTC Evo, HTC Desire, HTC Incredible, DROID by Motorola, Motorola Milestone, Samsung Galaxy S and others.

Flash Player 10.1 was also released to our mobile platform partners to be supported on devices based on Android, BlackBerry, webOS, future versions of Windows® Phone, LiMo, MeeGo and Symbian OS. We expect FP 10.1 will be an over-the-air download and even pre-installed on some smartphones, tablets and other devices in the coming months. Stay tuned to news from your device manufacturer.

There are loads of partners speaking in support of this news – many part of the Open Screen Project. Click the link to read quotes and musings from some of them, including ARM, Dell, Google, HTC, Microsoft, Motorola, Qualcomm, RIM, Samsung and others. Additionally, Intel, NVIDIA, and Texas Instruments posted to their blogs, and Brightcove issued a press release in support of the news.

What’s new in Flash Player 10.1? You can get all the details from the Flash Player team’s rundown of the work that went into the new runtime. And here are some of the top things to know:

  • It’s been completely redesigned and optimized for mobile, including new interaction methods that support mobile-specific input models, and support for accelerometer.
  • With Smart Zooming, users can scale content to full screen mode. Performance optimization work with virtually all major mobile silicon and platform vendors makes efficient use of CPU and battery performance.
  • New Smart Rendering ensures that Flash content is running only when it becomes visible on the screen further reducing CPU and battery consumption.
  • Sleep Mode makes Flash Player automatically slow down when the device transitions into screen saver mode.
  • Advanced Out-of-Memory Management allows the player to effectively handle non-optimized content that consumes excessive resources.
  • Automatic memory reduction decreases content usage of RAM by up to 50 percent.
  • Flash Player pauses automatically when events occur such as incoming phone calls or switching from the browser to other functions. Once users switch back to the browser, Flash Player resumes where it paused.

If you haven’t seen demos of Flash Player 10.1 on Android yet, check these out. You can also visit our demos page for more.

Google Nexus One

NVIDIA – Hardware accelerated HD video on netbook

Dell Mini 5 Tablet

NVIDIA TEGRA Tablet

Palm Pre

Be sure to check out the new Flash Player 10.1 product pages and ADC content to learn more. We can’t wait to see what you develop!

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  5. If Adobe invested the same amount of money and time into actually advancing Flash that they put into criticizing Apple’s decisions maybe it would actually be a good platform. They are trying to get into onto other platforms when it doesn’t even support 64-bit yet. All major operating systems have 64-bit support and most web browsers have already and are already transitioned over. Flash is also well known for performing great on Windows and not Linux based distributions or Mac OS X. They really should invest in what they have instead of making a fret about what others are doing and trying to engage in new markets when their offerings are not too well off, but it will all come down to the consumer really. Most will not understand the bickering between the two. All they will understand is if their browser crashes or if it doesn’t as a result of Flash. How Flash plays out on the mobile phone will be an interesting sight once some benchmarks from respectable companies emerge.

  6. I’m *VERY* upset about the Nokia N900 / Maemo 5 being abandoned. I got the phone because it had the most complete browsing experience of all phones available! Now, I feel like I’m in a worse position than Apple folks, because at least sites make exceptions for Apple products, or there are apps to get around the lack of flash limitation.

  7. Adobe I Love You. 10 is so smooth. It even works good on the iPhone with the CloudBrowse app.

    Big Ups to you.

    Always remember that if it wasn’t for Adobe, Macromedia, and Digidesign….

    Apple wouldn’t be shit. I pre-ordered a iPhone 4, but gonna return it and pick up a HTC because of the quality of 10.

    Thank You and Bless!

  9. Hi – The Nokia 900 currently supports Flash Player 9. Support for Flash Player 10.1 by Nokia on the N900 — as well other device makers with regards to their phones — is up to the manufacturers.

  11. i’ve had my palm prē over two mnths now and I can’t believe I spent 400 dollars for this cell. I can’t watch any videos without that dumb lego block popping up telling me I need an Adobe. Can you please tell me when it should be available on prē so I don’t have to waste my time trying to get it everyday. I’d appreciate.

  13. ERIC, sorry to break it to you, but adobe, and palm are keeping this TOP secret, but a lil birdy told me we COULD expect to see it when froyo(android 2.2) is release, but until that day, we wont know

  14. Man I just bought n900 this week and this is the sadest news of the month to me. Please someone push Nokia/Adobe into making 10.1 for n900.

  15. plz i just bought a nokia n900 and i still dont know how to use it well plz someone push Nokia/Adobe into making 10.1 for n900

  16. Adobe, please support Maemo on 10.1……It’s such an amazing growing open-source community.

    Or at least please allow some exceptions to enable the older version to view flash on N900.

    Very much appreciate if any effort could be done on the above. TQVM

  17. Oh yeah, definitely no good without supporting Nokia devices and Flash 9 is already obsolete so that’s out.

    Sure there are emerging manufacturers who are good for it, but they have nowhere NEAR the global customer base that Nokia has.

    That was a poor decision.

  19. The Nokia N900 has the same hardware specs as the supported Android platform (Cortex A8), why not release Flash 10.1 on Maemo?

  20. My N900 is an excellent product but is now also still waiting for a Flash 10.1 update ! It is really sad that Adobe and Nokia are not able to release this important and really needed update for Nokia’s so-called “Flagship” Smartphone in time. @Nokia-Marketing: This poor behaviour will for sure not help selling the N900′s !

  21. Please provide Flash 10.1 support for the Nokia N900. I bought mine less than one week ago and I’m very happy with the web browsing experience so far — except for this issue.

    The alpha release of the new version of the Firefox mobile browser (Fennec) came out just 2 days ago and it runs on two platforms: Maemo 5 and Android 2.0 (and above). Please do not abandon half of the users on the leading edge of mobile browsing.

    Thank you.

  26. In the United States the laws were changed by Congress in July to allow device owners to add any software they choose without having to go through the device manufacturer for that software and without the risk of manufacturers voiding warrantees as a result (was aimed at Apple). Adobe now has no excuse if they don’t create Flash 10.1 for N900 owners in the USA! I’m sure your network has a bridge so you can limit the download to devices in the USA if you choose, Adobe…

  29. Come on adobe, you used the Nokia N900 to showcase flash 10 mobile some time ago, yet still we are stuck on version 9.4.

    How can you let down owners now by dropping devlopment for this platform, when adobe itself already have a working version?

  30. And why oh why is adobe focusing on flash 10.1 for new devices and platforms still in development, all those with a device already will not benefit and neither will those who build flash 10.1 sites.
    Should sites be done in older versions of flash to maximise compatability for older devices and platforms, developers the choice is yours, lots of flash 10.1 glitz, or more traffic, as i am in a sales buiness mobile platfroms are becoming more important, we value traffic and compatability over glitz.
    As a Iphone and N900 user, flash is a burden when visiting a flash enabled site on both these devices.

  33. Hey Adobe. When do you plan in delivering Flash 10.1 for Nokia N900? You’ve developed for other platforms already. Alot of N900 users are already waiting and wanting this update. Is it not time you deliver?

  35. Adobe,

    When are you releasing 10.1 for Nokia N 900?

    Your CTO had demonstarted the same on N 900 some time ago.

    Plsss do the same fast…

  36. n900 is an advanced internet tablet… how is possible that Adobe don’t support it? and Nokia why don’t support this good device?

  37. im another dissapointed N900 fan, i can’t believe Adobe has singled out a leader in the new web browsing smart phone technology (Maemo/Nokia)…
    You must support this device! it’s great without flash 10.1, but make it outstanding with it!

  40. I would like that Adobe supports Flash 10.1 for the ‘bada’ system of Samsung mobiles.

    Thanks

  42. Plz i got the n900 just this week and love the phone just one thing missing flas player 10, please Adobe give the n900 users Flash Player 10 we need it badly

  44. Have N900 want FP 10.1.

    Devastated that one of the main reasons for buying the N900 is now turning in to the one reason why I shouldn’t have bought one.

  45. I also got my n900 last week, one of my reason to have this phone is bcoz they have flash support like playing farmville in facebook,, and now bcoz of the new version of adobe flash player, I can’t experience to play or to upload and watch anything in facebook..pls…do anyhing about this…pls!

  49. To adobe support,

    As you can see in your flash player 10.1 pressentation, the person there show the n900 with flash10.1 and he even said it would release the flash 10.1 on nokia n900 by 2010. But how come untill now you havent done anything for the nokia n900.

    Could you please release the updated flash player for the n900 as every owner of n900 expected. Now i have a shortcut of that particular video where that person said it will have a updated flash for n900 and it shows ther as well that he is already using the flash 10.1 on NOKIA N900.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pee3nT4bPw4

    Thank you so much in advance.

  52. got my n900 in may, most promising smart phone on the market, but no flash player 10.1 available yet. This is a huge let down. There’s alot of n900 users waiting for this, please make it available soon.

  59. Please can n900/maemo users have access to latest alpha/beta/GA releases of flash 10.1 or later???

    We know and understand that your team wants to produce something totally perfect, but what other open community out there would be able to provide more feedback to help improve Flash then our technical community does?

    The n900, is a very power device as most of us familiar with it know, I don’t think any other devices at this present time can beat the n900, Adobe should try to take full advantage of this powerfull device to demonstrate the power of flash in mobile devices.

    As a technical person myself, if I understand correctly all we the end users would need to run the update flash would be appropriate the arm file/binary: libflashplayer.so

    I’m also curious would any other arm flash releases currently out there work on the n900/maemo out of the box?

    I don’t know about other n900 users but this waiting is making physically ill :(

    Thank you in advance

  60. OMFG!

    N900-users are quite the nagging bunch.

    Why buy the phone, and find out afterwards the phone doesnt do what you want it to do?
    Until a few months ago there was NO flash support for any mobile, so this 10.1 is a good step in the right direction.

    STOP WINING !!!

  61. I am for N900 and very disappointed over the inability of Adobe to fix flash upgrade for Nokia N900. i stuck my money on this device and now stuck again with a single company Monopoly to enjoy the freedom of Open Source. This is like Hell and Capitalism brought this on us ALL. So now the waiting game continue.i hope something is done fast …..

  62. While it has been stated repeatedly that it is up to the device manufacturer and/or carrier to supply updates for software, I am inclined to argue that if Adobe wishes to see Flash everywhere, not a merely a profit making tool but as something that legitimately improves the quality of the web, it needs to start expanding the range of free-to-download flash plugins available.

    The N900, which the majority of the above comments are about, is a device which is rather well known for basically running a Debian Linux distribution with a modified UI and desktop environment. At its core it is still the same pure Linux that any other desktop device is. Just because it is compiled for ARM architecture, instead of the x86 one, does not mean that Adobe would at all lose if it provided this update as a free download. It is one thing to charge manufacturers to licence the Flash Player for devices running operating systems like Android, because Android uses a unique, rather modified Linux that does not work nearly the same way. Yet there are plenty of non-embedded devices that use ARM processors, on which end users chose to run Linux distributions. (Netbooks have been around that use ARM processors for a while, not to mention other devices.)

    There is no reason why those devices cannot benefit from a free-to-download Flash binary – and there’s no reason why the N900 should be kept from receiving future flash upgrades, when it can simply use whatever Debian-on-ARM flash player is available already. It does not require any effort beyond running the same flash player code for Debian/Ubuntu Linux through a compiler for the ARM achitecture processors. At least, unless clinging to acquiring licensing fees from the device manufacturers is that great of a reason, which it doesn’t have to be, and shouldn’t be given that it won’t be long before computers start to be replaced with “embedded devices”, which themselves are already approaching computer-esque functionality. At which point, there will come a time when other alternatives arise that are free, and Flash will have a much greater opportunity of maintaining a dominant position in making the web experience if they aren’t still expecting manufacturers to pay licensing fees. A free to download for every user flash player is perfectly reasonable, at least for operating systems that make that perfectly feasible.

  64. We have reached almost the end of 2010. Adobe CTO, in that video that almost everyone here must have seen, says that flash 10.1 for 900 **which he ALREADY had running on n900 ** will be released in 2010.
    Does not make any sense to me.
    Does anyone know if we n900 users can use any of the Linux versions of flash available on the Adobe website?

  69. I think that the launch of flash player for Maemo N900 will be an adobe win, HTML5 is on the way and alternatives will come out, do not tell us ask Nokia due Nokia has no influence on that,

    I must remind that Nokia was the among first companies to try to add flash to the mobile platforms.

    N900 its linux on ARM, which actually has better performance and hw power than many other mobile platforms. Use it!!

    Br N900 Owner

  70. please update flash for the N900 as we can no longer access many sites due to needing an update :(

  74. When are you guys at Nokia and Adobe will release Adobe Flash 10.1 update for Nokia N900 Maemo 5. Please do something about it. N900 is an Awesome Cell….
    Don’t leave it behind Android….

  76. Hi all…
    Is any adobe version available for NOKIA X-6 too ?? in which flash sites can be opened and surfed easily….coz in my X6 youtube can be surfed smoothly but it stucks on other flash sites . Can any one help me please..

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