Flash Player 8?

[kutibah]

Doesn't the Nokia 770 have a flash player? Well, when I try to play a video from Myspace on the 770, it is asking me to Upgrade to Flash Player 8 (the new version). How can I upgrade it on the 770? Am I missing something here?

[jlim51]

yeah - 770 doesnt seem to play any flash, windows, quicktime movies at all - especially not from myspace

do u have any songs on ur myspace- cos i cant get them to work either?

[phi]

the internal browser only supports flash 6 right now. i'm hoping the new OS2006 will bring that up to date whenever it comes out.

[kutibah]

the internal browser only supports flash 6 right now. i'm hoping the new OS2006 will bring that up to date whenever it comes out.
Chances are we will have Flash 8 for it in OS2006. Now the question is how much longer we will have to wait ;)

[NokNok770]

Waiting for 2006OS is like waiting for Playstation 3. You never know when. Wish they would give us some clues.

Speaking of PS3, I hope they flop. :)

[kutibah]

Waiting for 2006OS is like waiting for Playstation 3. You never know when. Wish they would give us some clues.

Speaking of PS3, I hope they flop. :)
Well, they did say 2nd quarter of 2006 so that could mean anywhere until Summer. So hopefully it'll be out in a month or so ;)

[aflegg]

Chances are we will have Flash 8 for it in OS2006. Now the question is how much longer we will have to wait ;)

Is there any evidence for that at all? That's the first I've heard. I imagine it'll be depedent on Macromedia, and whether or not Nokia or Opera licence (i.e. pay for) it.

Would be interested to see a reference, or whether it's just pie-in-the-sky wishful thinking? (Not that's there's anything wrong with that, I just want to be clear...)

TIA,

Andrew

[kutibah]

Is there any evidence for that at all? That's the first I've heard. I imagine it'll be depedent on Macromedia, and whether or not Nokia or Opera licence (i.e. pay for) it.

Would be interested to see a reference, or whether it's just pie-in-the-sky wishful thinking? (Not that's there's anything wrong with that, I just want to be clear...)

TIA,

Andrew
It's just a wish, but it makes sense for Nokia to release it because Nokia is committed to bringing updates to the 770 that WORK. I mean, what's the point of keeping it at Flash 6 when most of the sites can't even run without Flash 8? I think many users will be angry if it isn't implemented and Nokia is smart enough to keep up with the demand....

[aflegg]

Ah, OK. I'm afraid I see it as being as nice to have, and it may well make sense for Nokia to release "it", but if "it" doesn't exist it'll cost time & money to develop: there's a lot of work to do on the platform and supporting applications so there's a question as to where Nokia see it as coming in the priority list.

Cheers,

Andrew

[unuselessj]

On Macromedia's website, only Flash Player 7 is available to download for Linux. I would assume this is good indication that version 8 would not come with a new firmware release. If I recall correctly, version 7 is capable of playing flash video.

[kutibah]

On Macromedia's website, only Flash Player 7 is available to download for Linux. I would assume this is good indication that version 8 would not come with a new firmware release. If I recall correctly, version 7 is capable of playing flash video.
Even Flash 7 is ok with me if it works ;)

[fanoush]

Yes, AFAIK there is no such thing as Flash 8 for PDAs or similar devices.
You may look at system requirements http://www.macromedia.com/software/flashplayer/productinfo/systemreqs/
to get the picture.

However there is at least Flash 7 for PocketPC, see http://www.macromedia.com/mobile/supported_devices/pda.html so in theory it is possible to have flash 7. But having version 6 or 7 probably doesn't make difference. How useful is Flash on N770 anyway?

[odysseus]

Only Flash 7 is currently available for Linux. The head of Flash development at Macromedia has publically stated that there will be no Flash 8 for Linux. Instead, they will wait for Flash 8.5 to be released for Windows/Mac and then port that to Linux. There is no indication on when Flash 8.5 will be out, but it is sooner rather than later, as the whole excuse is that there is such a short timespan between 8.0 and 8.5 that it wasn't worth the effort to port 8.0 when they could leap straight to 8.5. I don't buy it personally, especially as the Mac version is essentially a UNIX version, but there you go, that's closed source for ya.

John.

[Coolty]

"how usefull is it anyways?" - umm, last time i checked nokia was marketing this device as an INTERNET tablet. that means it should do everything, say, a pc with IE or FF with all olugins.
just my 2 cents.

[gnuite]

Considering how many flash advertisements abuse even my PC's CPU, I think I'd almost prefer a Nokia 770 without flash support at all (of course, I can always turn it off).

Personally, I wish there was something like FlashBlock so that I could only view flash by proactive choice (does this exist for Opera?).

[fpp]

You can achieve a similar result with Privoxy.

[r3pek]

"how usefull is it anyways?" - umm, last time i checked nokia was marketing this device as an INTERNET tablet. that means it should do everything, say, a pc with IE or FF with all olugins.
just my 2 cents.
in the case you don't know, this tablet runs LINUX, not windows!! so we have to wait that macromedia release flash version 8 or greater AND compile it for arm processors...

[bhima]

don't buy it personally, especially as the Mac version is essentially a UNIX version, but there you go, that's closed source for ya.

The stuff underneath OS X is UNIX, and there are UNIX APIs, but there are also MacOS X APIs which are really quite, quite different from Linux and traditional UNIX APIs. Graphics, sound, timing and multimedia are where the APIs will be quite different.

The UNIX underpinnings of OS X make it easier for traditional UNIX stuff to run on OS X, but they really don't mean that OS X apps can easily be ported to other UNIX flavours.

[andygates]

Well, I just visited a Flash 8 site (www.armyoneverest.mod.uk) and got redirected to a Linux Flash 8 download site. 1mb tar file. Can someone who isn't running a marathon this weekend try it and report back?

[kutibah]

Well, I just visited a Flash 8 site (www.armyoneverest.mod.uk) and got redirected to a Linux Flash 8 download site. 1mb tar file. Can someone who isn't running a marathon this weekend try it and report back?
It's not a Linux Flash 8. If you look under the Version, it says 7.0.63