Droid X

Adobe Systems, the company responsible for such technologies as Flash, Shockwave, and the PDF format, have released a video demonstration of their Flash Player 10.1 running on an Android smartphone.

Senior Technical Evangelist for Adobe, Ted Patrick, hosted a brief video wherein the company’s Flash technology was shown running on an upcoming android handset by Verizon Wireless. Two simple games were demonstrated and showed the Android’s native web browser running the flash content embedded. A World Cup application was also shown to demonstrate how the technology can also be used for applications development as well as web content development.

The introduction does not come without its concerns, however. Many smartphone makers have long been concerned with Flash’s performance on mobile devices. In April, Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs even went as far as to publish a lengthy article titled “Thoughts on Flash” explaining why his company will never adopt the Adobe platform onto its wildly popular iPhone, iPod, and iPad devices. His concerns, he says in the article, are of battery life and system performance. Jobs believes that the HTML5 open web standard is where the future of the internet lies, and not with Adobe’s Flash.

The video released on Tuesday shows notable lag as Patrick demonstrates the World Cup application, despite the device’s 1GHz processor.

The Droid X used in the demonstration will be available from Verizon Wireless on July 15^th. The Android 2.2 update with Flash 10.1 is slated to be pushed to phones around the end of this summer.

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New information and images of Motorola’s upcoming smart phone, the Droid Xtreme have been leaked to the public. The project was once referred to as the “Motorola Droid Shadow.”

Once the phone hits the shelves, it looks like it will be running a slightly customized version of the UI featured on the current Android 2.1 software.

In addition, the phone will boast an 8-megapixel camera that is capable of shooting HD video. It remains unclear as to whether the resolution will be 720p or 1080p.

The device’s current release date is rumored to be late July or early August. Given this time frame, Motorola may decide to install the Android 2.2 operating system on the phones before release, but that too remains to be seen.

The device will sport a 4.3-inch screen, an HDMI port, a Snapdragon processor, and 16 GB’s of storage, among other features.

Motorola’s deal with Verizon makes the phone exclusive to Verizon customers only. However, since the release dates for both the Droid 2 and the Droid Xtreme are still unannounced, no one can say for certain which phone will hit Verizon’s shelves first.