One of the N900’s biggest feature has to be it’s browser, promising the full desktop experience. Here at The Nokia Guide we tend to agree that it indeed does live up to this promise and one key component that enabled this was the excellent Adobe Flash support. When the N900, it came with Flash 9.4 pre-installed and all was well.
In the mean time Adobe released Flash 10.1, which brings many improvements like hardware acceleration and other mobile-related improvements such as pausing the Flash Player when there’s an incoming phone call. Several mobile devices received the update, as expected many of which are Android devices. Nokia has been pretty quiet about the issue, while the Maemo community has started to wonder if the N900 will ever get this crucial update. The lack of a Flash 10.1 update for the N900 strikes us as very odd, and here’s why:
1.The N900 was one of the very devices demoed with Flash 10.1 As you can see from the video above, the N900 is smoothly running Flash 10.1.
2.Nokia is partner of the Open Screen Project led by Adobe.
3.ARM fully supports Flash 10.1. The N900 uses an ARM Cortex-A8 CPU.
If we put all the pieces together there is no reason why the N900 won’t get Flash 10.1, hey it was even shown running it! But we suspect that suspect that as all resources are pushed towards MeeGo, this will eventually happen, but not as quick.
Do you think that Adobe Flash 10.1 is essential for the N900?
you just have to assume from the way nokia behaves that they must hate their top end early adopting smartphone users because they consistently screw them over time and time again.
i got the n97 on launch day (actually delivered the day before) because nokia said it was going to be the phone to end the phone wars and would be the best thing ever and would be ‘the new n95′ at the top of the phone food chain for several years.
what i got was a slow, buggy phone that even now over a year later is still far from the phone it was touted as at launch.
literally a month after i got the n97 they announced the n900 which blew the n97 out of the water and again was touted as the phone to get.
this time, having been burnt by nokia with the n97 i waited until there were plenty of positive reviews in and the platform had time to mature to the point where there were only one or two things missing (namely flash 10.1 & full ovi maps navigation) and i got one and it’s been awesome aside from those tiny missing pieces of the puzzle, but now i have that same sinking feeling like nokia just doesn’t give enough of a crap about those of us who spend a LOT of hard earned cash to get the latest flagship nokia device to back up their promises.
fool me once nokia, shame on you. fool me twice, shame on me.
the one thing i do know is that the n900 will be my last ever nokia device, i just can’t take the abuse any more. android here i come.
Humm well to me the N900 was always the niche phone to get and not the next flagship device after N97. I think Nokia marketed it as so as well.
But to be on topic: I think the N900 would of course be greatly improved with the arrival of Flas 10.1, but it still leads all other smartphones in all other experiences that relate to web-browsing. Quite honestly to me Flash 10 on Android feels like a waste, as users on Android devices will probably use YouTube apps regardless if the videos would actually run nicely in the browser.
[...] There’s a huge thread about this at Maemo.org, signaling how important this is to the N900 community. There’s no doubt that MeeGo devices will be getting Flash 10.1 and beyond, but why forget about the N900? This little news is a bit of shock to us, especially when you consider the fact that N900 was the very first device demoed running Flash 10.1!!! We’ve talked about this in an earlier post. [...]
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