Flash 10 Coming for Most Smartphones… Except the iPhone & Blackberry

Near the end Adobe’s latest financial results presentation they discussed some upcoming Flash Platform advances. Adobe said they planned on releasing Flash 10 for smartphones at their MAX conference in October.

Adobe’s Max conference runs from October 4th through October 7th, so we can expect the release sometime between those dates.

Most of the "big boys" in the smartphone world are mentioned in the presentation: Android, Palm, Windows Mobile, WebOS and Symbian. Wait, there seems to be two smartphones missing… you know the one just sold over 1 million phones in three days. The other is very popular with business people, including the President of the United States. They both have fruit in the name.

If you haven’t figured it out by now, it’s Apple’s iPhone and RIM’s Blackberry. Neither of the two seems to be getting Flash.

It seems that Apple doesn’t want to lose control of the app marketplace, which would definitely become more crowded if they began getting Flash & AIR apps.

As far as the other smartphones are concerned, Flash support is actually coming along a little faster than planned. Initially, the goal was to bring Flash to smartphones sometime in 2010… but with October release date, things are looking good for smartphone owners. (Except for the iPhone & Blackberry owners of course)