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Windows Mobile to support Flash

iPhone, eat your heart out.

According to early news reports Monday, Microsoft has licensed Adobe Flash Lite for Windows Mobile devices. Essentially, Flash Lite will become a plug-in for Pocket IE, so that users can view embedded Flash content on their Windows Mobile devices. Adobe claims that up to 80% of Flash pages will work using the Flash Lite plugin and Pocket IE.

This also means that future Windows Mobile devices will support both Flash and Silverlight.

Flash, Silverlight: it's starting to sound like a group of superheroes around here.

Unfortunately, Microsoft hasn't yet said when it plans to support Adobe Flash Lite on Windows Mobile devices, and it hasn't given out any dates regarding support for Silverlight either. But at least they stuck their neck out and said that they would support it; which means, eventually, they'll have to deliver on that promise.

[via AppScout]
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