MWC2010: 2010 to witness smarter mobiles

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Software aiming to try and solve some of the bigger issues like handsets not playing Flash videos came to fore at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Despite the majority of video, animation, and many games on the net being Flash based, the system is not yet fully supported on handsets.

Android and Palm Pre handsets will offer mobile download of Flash 10.1 and with other manufacturers to follow. Out of the 20 manufacturers, 19 have signed up to support the video and animation platform. However, iPhones would not carry the update as Apple has decided not to support the software.

Apart from this, other software that generated talks were- Firefox has finally brought its popular browser to the mobile, Microsoft launched new mobile platform Windows Phone 7 and Israeli-designed Else phone to reach any contact, document, or application with a single touch.