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Adobe Systems Incorp, California based company has announced a new Flash player for Smartphones, Macs and other mobile internet devices, called Flash Player 10.1. The new version will be available by the first half of the next year and it is the first time that users will get the identical version of Flash on mobile and PC systems. Also, the company provides facility to download Flash directly on the phone rather than bundling with the operating system.

Compatibility of new Flash Player

Flash Player 10.1 will run Adobe AIR applications directly on Smartphones. However, the application would not be available on every Smartphone operating system. The list of operating system includes Symbian Series 60, Android, Windows Mobile, Palm WebOS and others will shortly join the list. According to the company, a Beta version for WinMo 6.5 and Palm WebOS will be available by 2009 end, while for Android and Symbian operating system would arrive early in 2010.

The present version of Adobe flash player (Flash Player 10) was launched back in 2008 and now about 40% of new handsets have the basic Flash Lite technology. Further, users can expect full Flash player in all upcoming Smartphones from next year. The company has been also working with RIM for future availability of its Flash Player on Blackberry Smartphones.

Flash Player 10.1: Boon for Smartphone users

The new Adobe Flash technology will offer a key experience on new Windows based mobile phones and other Smartphones. It will enable Smartphone users to enjoy rich Flash based games, streaming videos and other interactive Web content on the move. The company also said that the new flash player will offer uncompromised Web browsing applications, content and high definition videos on future Smartphones without consuming much mobile’s battery.  

Flash Player 10.1 will also help consumers to use mobile-specific features such as multi-touch, gestures and the accelerometer. The new platform will be supported by various mobile vendors.  Nokia has already shipped more than 400 million phones with existing Flash technology and will support the new Flash technology in mobiles and other internet devices, the company said.

Besides 50 other companies, Google may also join the Adobe’s Open Screen project announced earlier this year to work on Android Flash player, which indicates collaboration for providing a Flash player and AIR to Android operating system. Further, Adobe is also working to optimize the technology targeting Qualcomm’s Snapdragon chips, Nvidia’s Tegra and other Ion chips.

The company also added that its software engineers have increased the Flash’s operating performance by 87% and reduced memory consumption by 55 percent in Flash Player 10.1.

The new Flash Player 10.1 will also feature a new initiative, called Zeri to take benefits of media delivery with HTTP streaming that integrates content protection powered by Adobe Flash Access 2.0. The new feature will be an open format based on industry standards.
 
Flash on Phones: A Threat?

Earlier, Apple Inc, the famous iPhone maker has publicly condemned Adobe’s Flash technology, calling the technology is much slower and inefficient for mobile devices. Now, Apple’s iPhone operating system is the only major platform that is not supported by Flash 10.1. However, Adobe has said that its Adobe Flash content is present on more than 85 percent of the top 100 websites and about 75 percent of all web-based videos use Flash.

Since the eighties, the mobile phone has transformed from an expensive item used by business types to a really popular personal communications device that is used by most of the population. in actual fact, nowadays, mobile phones outnumber land line phones in many countries.

Mobile phones began life as the two way radio, which was also known as mobile rigs. these were put in vehicles such as taxis, police cars and ambulances, although were not strictly mobile phones as they weren’t usually connected to the phone network. while the earliest mobile phones were permanently installed in vehicles, later versions such as the transportables, also known as bag phones, could be carried, and could be used as either mobile or as portable two-way radios.

The very first mobile phones were named first generation phones, also called 1g. The 1g era lasted from the late 1970s through to the eighties. these items were the first real mobile phones, although they were then named cellular mobile radio telephones, & were based on analogue signals. the use of an analogue signal was the difference between these first generation mobile phones & their second generation cousins, which came out a few years later.

The very first second generation mobile telephones were commercially launched in finland in 1991. While 2g networks were completely digital, the previous 1-g networks were analog. one of the benefits that 2g networks had over their 1g predecessors was that telephone conversations were digitally encrypted. This was major as it was possible for third parties to overhear phone calls on analog networks. in addition to this, 2g systems were much more efficient, which allowed far more mobile telephones to be used. Finally, 2g introduced data services for mobile, which include sms messages.

After the launch of 2-g mobile phones, the earlier mobile phone systems were named 1g. whilst radio signals on 1g networks are analog, and on 2g networks they are digital, both networks use digital signals to link the radio towers and the rest of the phone system.

Following 2g mobile phones, 3g mobile telephone technology arrived. 3g is the name given to the third generation of mobile telephone standards and technology.

3g technologies allow network operators such as 02 and orange to offer their customers a wider range of advanced services, including video calls, and broadband wireless internet.

The earliest 3g network was launched by NTT DoCoMo in japan in may 2001. it was commercially launched in japan on october, 1 2001. the earliest European pre commercial 3g network was launched at the isle of man by Manx Telecom, who’re owned by bt, in December 2001.

We hope our article has given you more information about the mobile phone’s history. As you’ve probably guessed, the mobile telephone has come an awful long way & will continue to progress even further still.

4-g technology will give mobile phones a new lease of life, promising live streaming of tv & radio shows and much more besides. For the mobile phone, it is clear that the sky really is the limit.