The highlight is better support for native hardware capabilities, like multi-touch support, accessing the accelerometer present in the vast majority of smartphones today and hardware acceleration of graphics and video where available.

The two platforms promise some interesting, new capabilities on the mobile front. Unfortunately I can’t give any information about the specific dates for the betas.”

“There are separate sign-up pages for Flash Player 10.1 and Adobe AIR 2.0 so go on over and get registered. We just started the private betas and we are really looking forward to getting these technologies into your hands as soon as possible,” Lee Brimelow, platform evangelist at Adobe, announced. “You can now sign up to be notified when the first public betas of both Flash Player 10.1 and Adobe AIR 2.0 are available. At the same time, the releases of both Flash Player 10.1 and AIR 2.0 for Android, BlackBerry and Palm WebOS devices have been pushed back to the second half of the year, after initially beings scheduled for H1 2010. Adobe couldn't specify a precise date for the public betas. The two pieces of software are in private testing for now, but the betas will be opened up to the public at some point. Adobe has just announced that it has begun beta-testing the Adobe Flash Player 10.1 and Adobe AIR 2.0 for Android.

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