Flash Coming To More Android Smartphones, Smartbooks By End Of Year
Several new Android devices will launch in the fourth quarter that will be embedded with Flash to enable a richer media and internet experience, according to Bellevue, Wash.-based Bsquare, which plans to announce today that it has customized the Adobe (NSDQ: ADBE) platform for Android. The devices will range from smaller smartphones to devices with slightly larger screens called smartbooks.
Specifically, the port was built as a browser plug-in for ARM-based devices running Google’s Android 1.5 “Cupcake” platform. Larry Stapleton, Bsquare’s VP of Global Sales told mocoNews: “We have several contracts right now for companies that you have heard of. In Q4, you’ll see products rolling out with the technology enabled. There’s a full range of products in the smartphone and smartbook space.”
Because Bsquare works with handset makers early on in the development cycle, and helps embed the software into the devices, the company can get an idea of what phones and other portable technology is coming later in the year. The company’s expertise mostly is in Microsoft’s Window Mobile devices, but the recently expanded to work on the Android platform, too. Stapleton assures us that while Android has taken longer than some expected to get off the ground, the cadence of Android products will rapidly increase as head into the fourth quarter, “with lots of exciting and newsworthy products coming out” timed for the holidays and “dads and grads” at the end of next June.
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