iPhone 3GS – not so flash
By Benny Har-Even in Editorial
So Apple’s iPhone 3GS has arrived and I must admit I’ve finally bitten the bullet and gone for one. But having seen the speed improvements first hand and web browsing is better than ever, which makes it all the more disappointing that Flash support is still missing from the iPhone. Many web pages don’t work as intended and many sites now use Flash video, which won’t play on the iPhone.
This makes it all the more galling that the new HTC Hero, claims to have actual Flash support – not Flash Lite, but proper Flash. This is something of a one-up for HTC, and gives is a strong claim to be head of the pack for web browsing.
A video from Adobe, shows Flash working on the Hero, although we’d have to play with one ourselves to get a jusdgment on how smooth it is in reality. In the video the Adobe presenter says that 80 per cent of Flash content should work on the device out of the box, and that it is working on a Flash 10 client, presumably to take care of the rest of them.
Are we going to have to wait until next year’s iPhone with probably dual core processing to give us Flash? Come on Apple, give us what we want.
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Loading ...Comment by iucidium - June 26, 2009 on 5:37 pm
Flash 10? Get a g1
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