Adobe has demonstrated Flash 10.1 running on a Google Nexus One Android phone, in order to show that the software is NOT a battery hog, as claimed by Apple recently.
Adobe's Flash evangelist Mark Doherty posted some hard numbers and video demos over on the FlashMobileBlog to counter Apple's recent FUD (fear, uncertainty and doubt) campaign.
Flash 10.1 doesn't appear to suck up much of the Nexus One's battery power in the demo given by the Adobe man.
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Doherty plays a 17-minute embedded video in the full YouTube site and then notes that a mere 6 per cent of the phone's battery has been sapped.
Adobe's tests suggest they can get in the region of three hours of H.264 playback over Wi-Fi, so more than enough to watch three or four episodes of the latest Curb on your way to work then!
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harry
February 25th 2010
2. This is all very well, but this is the recent 10.1 beta. It's still not released code. Flash 9 might be a hog and that is all Apple & others have to work with for now. Adobe HAVE to fix this or Flash really will die. Would be a good thing for MS and Silverlight.
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lovlid
February 25th 2010
1. Why isn't this in the headline box-out? If it had read "flash still doesn't work on iphone" it would have been on there in a flash. Pardon the pun.
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