Originally Posted by Rushmore

Adobe still needs direct support. The only current version of Flash on Android is Sense based, so only works on HTC devices. Works well on my Incredible and there is also a browser called Skyfire that converts Flash video on the fly and gets past the block some sites do for mobile Flash 10.1. Works very well.

Both Motorola and Samsung are working with Adobe to get Flash 10.1 working on their devices using 2.2 Android.

Edit: I guess this makes Samsung better than Nokia, so I guess Nokia is not really the Euro version of Samsung. Nokia is in a league of their own.... Perhaps Nokia would be better off making hardware and let others handle the software? Like HTC does.


"Beer", it's what's for dinner.

Originally Posted by attila77

I don't give a damn who Adobe sent their porting kit to as long as it's big-business only. And this is not even about the N900 and Maemo (and that is why I'm mildly agitated when it comes to this issue).

It is Nokias responsibility not Adobe's. Why do I say that? I received an email response from Kevin Lynch at Adobe who said that they have already provided Flash 10.1 to Nokia and it's upto Nokia which devices they put it on.

so go figure!

And who twisted Adobe's arm to provide it (whatever it was, as he says 'porting kit', not a done Flash 10.1) to Nokia alone and nobody else, not even as a binary blob, alpha, beta or whatever on their Adobe labs ? And it's not like it's just up to Nokia what software we install. We don't have to root, jailbreak and spread via torrent, P2P or any of the sort. He gives it to us and we make it work (or discover it is FUBAR). But no, they just point a finger at Nokia and Nokia, with it's quiet policies, is always a good target to point fingers at, because they rarely bother to confirm or deny anything.

I don't give a damn who Adobe sent their porting kit to as long as it's big-business only. And this is not even about the N900 and Maemo (and that is why I'm mildly agitated when it comes to this issue).

Adobe. Could. Have. Given. It. To. Everybody.

But they didn't and don't want to, either because the Flash player is technically FUBAR, simply not ready, or because their Open Screen project is just a misnomer for Smoke Screen Project and they are no better understanding what open development is than 5 years ago - even when their own fate might be depending on it.

But yeah, blame Nokia. Then you can blame Sammy, Moto or HTC in a year when one of their models ends up an official upgrade short, then someone else the year after... Even if Nokia DID make a Flash 10.1 upgrade for the N900, we would have this SAME conversation for the N9. The fish stinks from the head down, and and the Flash fish is not headed by Nokia.

Originally Posted by Matan

Please spare us the nonsense Nokia apologising. Nokia have what is needed to get Flash 10.1 on N900. All that is needed is one manager telling one programmer: "Your job is now to get Flash 10.1 on N900."

Originally Posted by Matan

Please spare us the nonsense Nokia apologising.

Originally Posted by Rushmore

You are assuming Flash is a simple container add-on and will work with the current version of Maemo.

This is not even correct for Android, since HTC, Motorola and Samsung all have dev teams working with Android and Adobe.

My 900 is OCd to 800mhz and chokes on game and video content that is smooth on the Incredible and Flash 10.1. And I am just using Flash Lite 4 and Android 2.1. A bud's N1 with 2.2 performs even better with Flash.

This is all on Nokia and as long as people side with them, or are complacent about it, Nokia will continue screwing consumers over.

Originally Posted by Spotfist

I just can't wait for a working version of Froyo! one question I have though is, once we have android for the n900 and google decide to upgrade to 2.3 or something would that require the devs to redo all there hard work on the port?

Originally Posted by knopow

2.2 froyo will be the last verison that we maybe able to use according to google. the next os coming from goolge is said to be gingerbread 3.0 that will only run on phones 1ghz 4inch screen and 512mb minimum. google it.