Via Flash Devices,

Yesterday T-Mobile announced the G1 which is the first Android based mobile phone and is expected to be available on the 22 October here in the US and in other European countries in early November. The HTC device has some good hardware specs including 3G, WiFi, GPS, touchscreen, QWERTY keyboard and others. There’s a lot of information available on-line from various sites that are covering the G1 and I encourage you to check it out.

What I would like to talk about is the lack of Adobe Flash support on the G1. The G1 does not have support for Flash, however we are working closely with all handset manufacturers that support Android and are expecting in the future that Android based devices will ship with Adobe Flash support. I can’t say when or who so if you ask I’ll tell you the same thing ;o)

If you look at the OEMs that are supporting Android, all major manufacturers that are current licensees of Flash today are using our technology for user interfaces and applications. With 800 million devices shipped with Flash so far and 1 billion devices expected to ship by Q1 2009 there’s a lot of potential for developers to reach a lot of end-users. The way in which consumers enjoy great experiences today via web browsing and applications on the desktop is moving to non-PC devices using our client technologies of AIR and Flash and that’s part of our Open Screen Project initiative.

As for the G1 I’m going to get one the day it comes out (hopefully) to check out the overall experience and how Google and T-Mobile have integrated their services into the device.

Are you planning on getting a G1 when it ships or waiting?