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February 21, 2011 11:51 am EDT

Motorola Xoom will ship without Flash support on February 24th, expects it in 'Spring 2011' (updated)

Verizon's webpage dedicated to the Xoom has just gone up and one of our eagle-eyed readers has already spotted a disquieting bit of small print: "Adobe Flash expected Spring 2011." You don't sit around expecting what you already have, so that leads us to conclude that the Xoom, the mighty iPad-slaying, Honeycomb-bringing, world-changing tablet... won't have Flash at launch. The version of Adobe's rich media player it's waiting for is most probably 10.2 for mobile devices, scheduled to arrive in the coming weeks, which should mean first-day buyers this Thursday will get a limited-time premium feature on their tablets: no Flash ads.

[Thanks, Chris]

Update: Motorola has confirmed this, in a very roundabout fashion. The company's statement in full:
"Motorola XOOM will include full support for Adobe(R) Flash(R) Player(R) for accessing the rich video and animations of the web, to be available after launch."



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