By the way, this could be something that can be used to beat Nokia around to convince them to finally port Flash 10.1 to Maemo. Incompatibility with iPlayer in UK context is massive. The fact that N900s are still being sold in UK as a Flash enabled device (saw it in my Local Tesco) means that users would expect it to work with iPlayer. Also, it could be a good opportunity for some of us N900 owners to write to Nokia UK support to pester them. So what says, is a mass complaining worth a try?
Sounds good to me. Ari Jaaksi (http://jaaksi.blogspot.com/), are you listening? We love the N900, but we would love it even more if Flash 10.1 was available.
Okay, done. I have written to Nokia UK support. It would be brilliant if a few others could do the same. Here is the link to their contact us page
I think 95% of the complaints with N900 are due to lack of two features:
1. Lack of flash player 10.1
2. No turn by turn navigation in Ovi Maps
If only Nokia could break its silence on these two issues, that would do wonders for a thing called customer satisfaction, that Nokia seems to have forgotten the meaning of.
i suspect we will get more joy from pointing out to the bbc that no-one really needs flash 10 - while a number of their fee payers need it to be flash 9
There must be numerous other devices that can't play this video as well, not just phones so .....
i suspect we will get more joy from pointing out to the bbc that no-one really needs flash 10 - while a number of their fee payers need it to be flash 9
There must be numerous other devices that can't play this video as well, not just phones so .....
i think the easiest route would be to see if the Beeb can set up a user profile for the N900 and pray they still have some v9 servers left running or if there's a compatability mode.
i suspect we will get more joy from pointing out to the bbc that no-one really needs flash 10 - while a number of their fee payers need it to be flash 9
There must be numerous other devices that can't play this video as well, not just phones so .....
Well said - I would also imagine there are quite a few N900 owners within the BBC's technical teams. However, I think most decisions on how direct and change iPlayer are politically influenced. There is a new coalition government that is watching closely what the BBC does with the license fee. The cynical part of me thinks that viewer demand may have less influence.
Well for some reason I can now play BBC News Videos
I had sent them a online form mail from my desktop, got a stock reply back, then did the same again from my N900 (thus supplying flash & browser agent info) and lo.... or maybe they were playing about with the feeds?
Now if we could only get them to correct the playing live streams http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcone/watchlive/ which even on a 1150Mhz overclock device only play in a choppy manner. Life would be sweet.
@rizbert, don't know where you found the online form to contact the BBC but perhaps you could give them another nudge to fix them, as you seem to have the magic touch for getting results.
I still can't play BBC News videos, though I can play iPlayer now. The trick is to use the pop out button (the second button from left, next to the full screen button), which would open the video in a new window and then that can be made full screen.
Now if we could only get them to correct the playing live streams http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcone/watchlive/ which even on a 1150Mhz overclock device only play in a choppy manner. Life would be sweet.
@rizbert, don't know where you found the online form to contact the BBC but perhaps you could give them another nudge to fix them, as you seem to have the magic touch for getting results.
Thanks I'll try!
For the form, follow the 'contact us' link at the bottom of the bbc news page, then choose the website feedback link, then 'technical problems'.
