Adobe Flash coming to Windows Phone 7 “within months of release”

June 16, 2010 | By Surur

Windows Phone 7 will be able to play flash games ... eventually We have seen Adobe talk about Flash 10.1 on Windows Phone 7 on a number of occasions, after abandoning their work on Windows Mobile. The time scales have always been pretty fuzzy, and more recently it has been very clear the platform will ship without Flash capability.

Michael Chaize, a Flash Platform evangelist based in Paris, has now stated the software will come to Windows Phone 7 “within months” of the release of the actual OS itself, and likely in the first 6 months after release.

While Flash holds the further promise of accessing content meant for the desktop, the difference between the mouse and keyboard paradigm of the desktop and the inaccurate multi-touch of the smartphone world remains an issue.

Chaize has however said Adobe intends to release Flash controls specifically designed for mobile use, but this will of course take us back to content designed for mobile use and content that was not.

Read more on Flash on Mobile at ITWriting.com here.

Via WMExperts.com

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Site Admin and Windows Phone enthusiast, he has been using Windows Mobile devices since before they were called PocketPC’s. He is currently sporting a HTC 7 Trophy.

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iPhone4

Flash? What about Silverlight? Flash or Sliverlight? Will Flash be a about to utilize the framework of WP7 since WP7 is built on Silverlight??
http://twitter.com/adamUCF @adamUCF

At one of the presentations I saw at TechED (one of the ones not posted online) Erik Helgerson said that Flash was actually working on WP7 before they showed it off at MWC. But MS flipped something in the backend (I believe it was Direct3D or something to that effect, don't remember exactly) that completely broke Flash. The browser is still IE so the normal plugin architecture is still present. I think Flash will only be in-browser and not an app platform unless Adobe creates something that compiles to managed code and uses the standard APIs. Obviously flash itself, however, will be written in native code.
BChau

Yes, Flash Player 10.1 is only for the in-browser experience. The desktop counterpart is called AIR 2 but I haven't heard of any mention of AIR2 for WP7 yet?
http://intensedebate.com/people/chinch chinch

Adobe = Always doubt our boastful expressions

Within "months" from Adobe means we should probably not expect it until xmas 2011 at the earliest.

Jobs' stance with them is moronic but Adobe has the is collectively the worst programming teams on the planet for a large corporation.
NuShrike

More fuzzy hand-waving PR FTW.