Thread: Does the N900 have improved 3G technology for browsing?
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2009-10-30 , 17:28
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Originally Posted by huntr77 View Post
Which brings me to my next thought. With download speeds like that I i'm pretty confident they can get the BBC iPlayer working on the N900 (http://video.aol.co.uk/video-detail/...lks/4001268144). It can't be the graphics chip being unable to render the video, as it can play divx movies with no problem.
That demo/test was run with the N900 connected to WiFi, so unless the guy's fixed line internet sucks to a truly astonishing degree it's not the connection speed that's causing the problem.

You're obviously right that the N900 can play back the video, but there does seem to be something about Flash that makes it horribly inefficient (also true on desktops, not just phones).

My current plan is to simply grab the streams using get_iplayer, then play the files back with something that's not flash.