Adobe has got a Flash player in the works for the iPhone, but Apple is still lukewarm on the idea. Let's find out why.
A Flash application can lead to performance issues on a computer, and even worse on a smartphone: Crash Boom Bang. Professional Flash developers, however, can do things with Flash that will make anyone enthusiastic about the technology.
Microsoft will make the jump with the Internet Explorer Mobile 6 - to be released soon – which will come with an Adobe Flash plug-in. The HTC Touch Pro (coming to Sprint soon) benefits from a nice hardware performance increase, and should be able to handle Adobe Flash fairly well. Additionally, the HTC Touch HD will be released later this year combining the same hardware capabilities with a massive high-resolution display.
The iPhone 3G and Safari Mobile could be stuck at status quo for a while though, despite the fact that Adobe is keen on seeing Flash support being rolled out. As long as one of Apple's main-selling points is stability and the iPhone 3G didn't come with the hardware capabilities most people believed it would offer, Flash may actually turn the whole Safari browsing experience into a state where "EDGE only" would be considered to be nitpicks. Of course, it would be easy to turn off Flash in a browser, but "Freedom to choose" wasn't an Apple trademark last time we checked.
While waiting for Apple's next move on the Adobe Flash issue, check out the hardware comparison between some of the hottest touchscreen smartphones below (Warning: RAM equals Total RAM in the table. Available RAM for you to do fun things like actually loading a few Flash pages without running out of memory will vary. Stay tuned for our in-depth reviews, especially as 128 MB RAM on the Xperia X1 and Omnia could turn out to be a dealbreaker for many now that HTC is rolling out new heavy-weighters).
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