Flash 10 Coming to Mobile Phones in October: Slow Heavy Mobile Flash Ads to Follow?

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The Talk Android blog listened in on Adobe earnings conference call and quotes verification that…

Adobe Flash Player 10 For Android Due In October

…during the Adobe Max conference. Actually, Flash 10 will be available for practically every major platform except iPhone: Google Android, Symbian OS, Palm webOS, Microsoft Windows Mobile.

I’m sure a lot of people are looking forward to seeing Flash 10 available for mobile phones. However, I’m concerned that we will see a lot of unnecessarily Flash-heavy sites bogging down the airwaves and taking forever to play on relatively slow rendering mobile phones. Do you really want to see a forced Flash ad presented everytime you visit your favorite mobile web site? This may be the case after October.

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