Adobe has been promising Flash Player for mobile devices for some time, and now that a version is finally available for Google’s Android 2.2 platform, it seems the company has failed to deliver. While the player can handle videos that have been reencoded for mobile devices just fine, it stutters, chokes and stalls on Flash video content encoded for desktop and laptop computers, according to LAPTOP.
If you listen to Apple tell it, Adobe has been “lazy” about its mobile Flash strategy and that’s why the full version of the ubiquitous web technology has yet to hit multiple mainstream devices yet. At its San Francisco headquarters Monday, the company held a summit for mobile journalists to dispel this notion and to outline its plans for Flash on smartphones.
Adobe is partnering with mobile advertising network Greystripe to create a new Flash-authored interactive ad for mobile devices.
Nokia and T-Mobile have announced that TMo will be getting an exclusive Nokia smartphone called the E73 Mode. The new handset will feature a QWERTY keyboard and WiFi connectivity. The handset will land on the network starting on June 16.
Norwegian browser maker Opera has high hopes for the combination of mobile browsers and HTML 5, which will let web-based applications compete better with native applications, according to co-founder Jon von Tetzchner.
That's the idea behind the free Cloud Browse app from a company called AlwaysOn Technologies run by developer Lida Tang.
We’ve seen Flash performing great on the Nexus One, as well as not so great. What seems to slow the browser down so much is having a lot of Flash content loading in a page.
A new round of benchmarks suggest that Flash 10.1 Beta slows down page loads in Android 2.2 Froyo. That has been the topic of controversy for a few days now, thanks to PocketNow.
About a month ago, my old phone broke and I decided to get the My Touch phone with Google from T-Mobile.
At Google IO this morning Adobe unveiled its Flash 10.1 beta for Google’s Android mobile OS. With Evans Data now reporting over 3 million Flash developers, it’s a platform that’s gone a long way beyond its original designer audience.
