Adobe today announced details about Flash 10.1 plug-in rollout for smartphones and handheld devices. Adobe plans to releases a public beta of Flash 10 for Windows Mobile OS 6.5 and Palm webOS in Q4 2009, followed by beta release for Google Android 2.0 and Symbian. BlackBerry will also get Flash plug-in by second half of 2010.

The full Flash 10 plug-in would improve performance, increasing software-rendering speed by 87 percent on mobile devices and it would consume 55 percent less memory. Flash 10 will also support multitouch, accelerometers, multiple screen orientations and hardware graphics acceleration. Devices will require at least 500MHz ARM11 processor and the lower tier devices (with slower processors) will be Flash enabled, but won’t support full Flash 10 plug-in.

Adobe will release Adobe Air 2.0 in second half of 2010 to take full advantage of the Flash 10.1 browser plug-in and support standalone apps. The company will also roll out new version of their developer tools LiveCycle enterprise collaboration suite that will support access to documents from iPhones, BlackBerrys and Windows Mobile phones. However, Adobe didn’t say when iPhone would support Flash 10.1 plug-in.