We reported a few days back that the upcoming Flash Player 10.1 will only run on mobile devices that have ARM Cortex A8 chipsets. Now it’s confirmed. So what does this mean? Only 2 phones fulfill this hardware requirement: Google Nexus One and Motorola Droid. All other phones can enjoy Flash Lite at best.

Furthermore, Flash Player 10.1 is coming this month! (1st quarter of 2010). Adobe details 3 ways in which you can get Flash Player 10.1:%tags

  • You can get Flash Player 10.1 which comes bundled with System Software Updates (Firmware/ROM updates)
  • By manually downloading through on-device catalog.
  • Downloading and Installing from The Adobe Flash site

Previously, Taimur demoed Farmville running on Google Nexus One and it was claimed that it’s using Flash Player 10.1 which was actually wrong and was confirmed by Adobe that it was actually running on Flash Lite and that was the reason why it was so dead slow.

Adobe clarified:

At Mobile World Congress Adobe demonstrated the full Flash Player (Flash Player 10.1) running on Android, Palm webOS and other mobile platforms. The HTC Desire will support Flash Player 10.1 once the runtime is available in the first half of 2010. Users will be able to upgrade the free player over the air. Until then the HTC Desire will ship with a new version of Flash Lite that supports ActionScript 3, and other new features. The Farmville demo shown on Redmondpie is using Flash Lite, not the full Flash Player.

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