Adobe Systems and HTC have collaborated to include Adobe Flash Platform technology in the new HTC Hero. The Hero will be the first Android phone to be shipped with such support. The new phone delivers a more complete Web browsing experience and provides access to a broad variety of Flash technology based content available on the Web. Users can browse and discover a broad set of Web content and applications not supported by mobile phones in the past. YouTube videos can also be viewed and enable full screen viewing mode.
"As the first Android device with Flash, the new HTC Hero represents a key milestone for Android and the Flash Platform. With close to 80% of all videos online delivered with Adobe Flash technology, consumers want to access rich Web content on-the-go." said David Wadhwani, VP and GM (platform business unit) at Adobe.
"The collaboration with HTC offers people a more complete Flash based Web browsing experience today and presents an important step towards full Web browsing with Flash Player 10 on mobile phones in the future," Wadhwani said. Users can navigate through Web videos using intuitive video controls. With progressive streaming of large MP3 audio files from a Web server and the local file storage, the HTC Hero provides a seamless audio experience.
"Adobe Flash is an important core technology for people interacting and experiencing the Web, it is only natural to be offering it on the new HTC Hero first," said John Wang, chief marketing officer, HTC Corporation. We look forward to continuing our close collaboration with Adobe and to bringing Flash Player 10 support to our phones in the future," said Wang.
