Free Android Phones from Adobe and Google … what is this all about? This will come as little revelation to any person who followed technology news this week, but let there be no doubt about the favorite smartphone platform at Adobe: it isn’t the iPhone. lets find out who are eligible to claim free Android Phones from Adobe and Google.
Adobe reported Thursday that it plans to reveal a version of Flash for Google’s Android software in May at the Google I/O conference, in an answer to Apple CEO Steve Jobs’ criticism of Flash in an open letter. And the company wants to make sure its employees use those phones: it’s preparing to award away Android phones running Flash to employees, according to three sources common with the plan.
It’s not clear which phone employees will obtain (various HTC phones and the Nexus One were mentioned) and it will not be an obligatory shift. But in the time-honored technology industry observe of “dog-fooding” one’s own products, Adobe and Google desires to persuade Adobe employees to spend as much time using Android and the Flash Player 10.1 as possible.
Google will be awarding Android phones like they are party favors: it’s planning to give every Google I/O attendee their pick of a Motorola Droid or Nexus One, and it gave away Nexus Ones to an audience of CIOs previously this month at an event for Google Apps.
It’s also not clear if this will be a bonus just for developers or for the entire company: Adobe had about 8,600 employees worldwide at the end of last November. The company did not react to a call for comment about its plans
