With the debuts of the new HTC Hero, Adobe and HTC has also announced that the smartphone will be the first Android smartphone with support for Adobe Flash Platform technology (Flash Lite 3.1). You will be able to view YouTube videos using Flash technology, and enable full screen viewing mode by simply double tapping the screen.

“As the first Android device with Flash, the new HTC Hero represents a key milestone for Android and the Flash Platform. With close to 80 percent of all videos online delivered with Adobe Flash technology, consumers want to access rich Web content on-the-go.” said David Wadhwani, vice president and general manager, Platform Business Unit at Adobe. “The collaboration with HTC offers people a more complete Flash based Web browsing experience today and presents an important step towards full Web browsing with Flash Player 10 on mobile phones in the future.”

Other than watching online flash video, you will be also able to play flash games directly from your phone. While the loading time isn’t fantastic according to the demo video below, you will get access to tons of flash games available on the web!

Check out a live demo here