BSquare Launches Mobile Player For Android Phones
July 10, 2009 by Sanjay · Leave a Comment
Bellevue, Washington-headquartered BSquare Corporation has announced the launch of a new mobile player software for phones running Google’s open-source Android operating system.
The application has been built upon Adobe’s Flash Lite, ver 3.1, which itself was launched for the mobile market just a few weeks ago. This Flash Lite version itself runs on the “cupcake” version 1.5 of Android.
Club this news with the announcement of Taiwan-based phone maker HTC Corporation, of its launch of a “Hero” smartphone that is based on Android, and it becomes clear that happy days are ahead for Google’s venture, with the ecology around it now coming close to the critical threshold.
Since BSquare’s application is tightly bound to Adobe’s Flash Lite, it will run on any mobile phone where Flash Lite has been ported. So while Flash Lite works quite well on Window’s Mobile and Nokia’s Symbian, the software is still not available for Blackberry or Apple’s iPhone.
A feature (or bug) with Flash Lite is that it lacks full compatibility with the currently available Flash 9 that runs on routine desktop machines. Adobe is expected to come out with Flash Player 10, an upgraded version of Flash Lite, later this year.
Read more about the latest software application written around Adobe’s flash for the Android, here.
