[Video] Flash on the Droid!

[jboucheb]

YAY!!!

I can watch flash on my Droid!

This is a revolution!!! this is going to spread like fire. Who's gonna break the news to the general population in the forum?

[jboucheb]

Skyfire for Android streams Flash video | Crave - CNET


I am downloading now to see if it works

I just tried it. How come I can't see Hlu videos??

I was just reading that hulu blocks skyfire, but that was an older article, but it may still be the reason.

Skyfire explains why you can't watch Hulu | WMExperts

Thanks. F Hu-blew anyway.

[jaysonstaurt]

I was pretty sure I read something about the iphone supporting the CDMA2000 network in the very near future.

A new report citing sources in the Taiwan handset supply chain says Apple has contracted to produce a UMTS/CDMA hybrid iPhone due in the third quarter of next year that will enable the company to sell a single global handset to all carriers, and specifically to Verizon Wireless in the US.

The report by OTR Global, provided to AppleInsider by an industry analyst, says the new "worldmode" iPhone will gain compatibility with CDMA2000 networks (including Verizon's US network, which is currently incompatible with existing iPhone models) while retaining compatibility with UMTS 3G networks globally using a new hybrid chip produced by Qualcomm.

According to OTR's sources, Asustek subsidiary Pegatron will build the new hybrid phone devices for Apple rather than Hon Hai, the iPhone's current manufacturer. This decision was reportedly made to prevent the company from being "constrained by a single-source assembler."

AppleInsider | Report: Apple to launch Verizon iPhone in Q3 2010

[keiichi25]

Haha wow what aparagraph well I'm just saying the verizon ceo has already confirmed the iphone for verizon... sorry. Just look it up. But ur not really wrong I think its just 4g but does it matter this is about flash not when the iphone is coming to verizon. Because its a fact that it is (according to verizon ceo)

You might want to re-read what you read. Here is what I found from a Google search with 'Verizon iPhone'

Verizon iPhone - Google Search

Verizon CEO Says a Verizon iPhone Is Apple's Call - Mobile and Wireless from eWeek

A Verizon iPhone is still dependant on whether or not Apple decides they want to go that way or not.

Apple's iPhone on Verizon: 4 Reasons to Think Twice - PCWorld

Of the 4 reasons listed...

1) Always rumored... Still is, nothing official. The fact that you cited the Verizon CEO said it is coming, but I just gave a link from very same CEO stating a Verizon iPhone is Apple's call, means that it isn't definitive until Apple says it is.

2) Technology, as I mentioned before, the 4G networks are basically what some groups are now holding out for. From last I saw, the 4G network that Verizon is looking for will lean a little more towards using GSM type technology versus its current ESN IDs, where the phone has a Fixed Serial number for activation, where as GSM allowed you to activate another phone simply by swapping your GSM sim card to another phone, its only limitation is the phone is either locked to your network or not locked at all.

3) When does the iPhone to AT&T exclusivity end? No one knows. Only that there is a contract between AT&T and Apple at this time, much like how the Razr was only with AT&T, then eventually it was for other groups unless you bought an unlocked on or hacked one and it would only work with networks that supported GSM at the time.

But all of this is beside the point for this thread, simply because it is up to Adobe to release a Flash Player/Viewer for the Mobile OS. And of recent, I heard that Apple has sort of dissed Adobe with their push for their version of web content animation, and therefore hasn't really encouraged Adobe to really get cracking on the flash for the i-Series OS, and more for others, like Android.

[keiichi25]

And here is also a post from Jobs with regards to Flash:

Thoughts on Flash

[Abby Normal]

I was talking to a friend of mine who works at Adobe and several of us were beating her up cause she won't tell us when it will be released...

Anyway another person brought up the fact that he had heard Adobe was holding things up not because it wasn't working right but because it was eating batteries up alive... So until they could fix that it wouldn't be released...

No comment from my friend who works there, she immediately answered a different question and never returned to the battery issue...

If this is true, we may not want to be in a big fat hurry to get flash....

Just sayin...

[jboucheb]

I was talking to a friend of mine who works at Adobe and several of us were beating her up cause she won't tell us when it will be released...

Anyway another person brought up the fact that he had heard Adobe was holding things up not because it wasn't working right but because it was eating batteries up alive... So until they could fix that it wouldn't be released...

No comment from my friend who works there, she immediately answered a different question and never returned to the battery issue...

If this is true, we may not want to be in a big fat hurry to get flash....

Just sayin...

What if you keep it plugged in all the time? Say in a car charger or something. Did Adobe see batteries blow up or melt the phone because they got super hot 150 degrees?

Ask your friend if Adobe ran across exploding batteries while testing flash for continuous hours at a time.

[Abby Normal]

She gave no comment to the battery question and answered a different question entirely... didn't return to the battery...