Re: Who said that Flash 10.1 is not coming?
 

Well the mystery deepens because the CTO of Adobe said just a week ago that the Motorola Droid(600mhz...) is getting Flash 10.1. Who knows if that was a misspeak though cause I thought Motorola is preparing the Droid 2 right now.

But if it does come to the Droid we have a right to complain.

Re: Who said that Flash 10.1 is not coming?
 

A) It seemed to work in the Demo

B) No android device currently (short maybe the N-One) have those kinds of specs. Yet, I do believe many older device are being told they are going to be able to get 2.2 (anyone confirm?). But, the N-one is a 1Ghz snapdragon, with no dedicated GPU - so whether it's any faster is in question..

C) 800mhz doesn't seem to be outside the realm of possibility for the N900 if the O/C thread is to be believed.

But, I suppose it's theoretically possible that Adobe decided after their demo that the N900 processor just couldn't provide the proper "user" experience on all the different websites that use 10.1. While some may work, others may be too slow, etc. But - and again I need confirmation and sources - but I thought the Harmattan device coming 2010 had pretty much identical hardware to the N900, just with capacitive touchscreen over resistive. I'm fairly certain it's a Cortex A8, but I'm not sure of the speed.. I coulda swore there was a wiki page or a post somewhere outlining it's specs but I'm failing to find it quickly.


ETA:

It's good to be back YoDude ;), and thanks! Good post, and good to see you again.

Re: Who said that Flash 10.1 is not coming?
 

Yea good point it worked in the demo, so if it does come to the Motorola Droid that's even more ammo.

The N1, Droid Incredible, EVO 4G and Samsung Galaxy S all have 1ghz processors, and the Motorola Shadow/Mirage/Droid2 is rumored to have one too.

OCing isn't considered at all by Adobe or Nokia... That Harmattan device could come out with a 1ghz+ 45nm chip. I read a comparison the other day that 45nm 1ghz Samsung Hummingbird chip in the Galaxy S is better than the Snapdragon. Texas Instruments and Qualcomm are going to release something new at that size later this year(they use 65nm chips right now).

Re: Who said that Flash 10.1 is not coming?
 

AFAIK: There's no way to "hide" an app in the Android Market from some devices and not others. So if they release it to the market, it'll be installable by any Android device that uses the new Market. (Had to specify new, as there is some differences I guess in apps in the "new" market to the "old" market of the G1/Cliq.. at least so says my friend with a CLIQ). However, this comes with the caveat that: Just because it's installable, doesn't mean it'll work. So we'll have to see if it works on the Droid.

Rumored phones I'm not considering. They could come out with Dual-core mobile phones tomorrow for all it matters. I'm looking specifically at right now.. and apparently I've been a lazy bastard at researching phones since I got my N900. I had forgotten the EVO 4G and Galaxy S.

I very highly doubt the Harmattan device will be re-engineered to use a new processor released at the same time as when it comes out. I say that primarily because at the time the N900 was designed, the 256MB internal flash was all they had (in my understanding) - so even though there are better internal flashes now we still got the N900 with all it's rootfs size limitations because re-engineering it is out of the question.

So the Harmattan device will use something that was already on the market, likely I'm thinking sometime last year. But yes it could be a 800mhz+ Cortex A8 vice the 600 we have now. I thought, as I said, this was specified somewhere but I can't find it. I must be tired today.

Re: Who said that Flash 10.1 is not coming?
 

It just got an idea from updating my Ubuntus Flash to 10.1 beta. Since the Flash is just an .so-file in .Mozilla/plugins, could it be possible that some Android-owner would give us their libflashplayer.so (this would then be for ARM-devices) and we could use it.

Re: Who said that Flash 10.1 is not coming?
 

it is worth trying but I wouldn't count on that working...

Re: Who said that Flash 10.1 is not coming?
 

I got leacked froyo and didn't file that file there. tried that =(

Re: Who said that Flash 10.1 is not coming?
 

The .so file is specific to Firefox, I believe.

Thus, android would have to use Firefox, to get an ARM port of that .so file. They don't. Android has it's own browser, and flash has been written specifically for that.

So as ZogG said.. I don't see that working.

Now, something like that could likely work if Flash 10.1 reaches Harmattan or MeeGo.

Re: Who said that Flash 10.1 is not coming?
 

What if the N900 "Flash 10.1" demo last year was really just flash 9.4 demo while talking about flash 10.1? The TBS.com website demoed works just the same on our N900 today...

Re: Who said that Flash 10.1 is not coming?
 

Why Why Why

does everyone want Flash 10 ???????????

The N900 is an "open platform"

why do we want bloated, buggy closed proprietary code ??

we should keep the N900 totally open and banish this rubbish and get Nokia to open up its proprietary code.

if we add any more closed code we may as well just go and buy iphones.

but wait, didnt apple banish flash as its too buggy and closed ?