A bit of bad news for N900 owners, as I’ve gotten confirmation from a Nokia employee that Flash 10.1 is not planned for the N900 and will NOT be released for the device. One of the first devices to support the full Flash experience, in this case Flash 9.4, the N900 seems to have been forgotten and is quickly falling being as Flash 10.1 is already available. Making things even worse is the fact that some Flash 10.1 won’t run on 9.4 devices, eventhough technically it could.

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.

We really hope Nokia gets its act together and still decide to change this decision.

What is your take on this sad news?

Firing the built-in App. Update on the 5800 XpressMusic will come up with a mysterious Flash Lite 3.1 Update. Mysterious in the sense that this is the first time I see Flash Lite, a core part of the OS, being updated outside the regular firmware update. Usually this kind of stuff is imbedded in the new firmware. Could this be  a start to quicker and more frequent updates to Flash Lite and or other components? We’ll be reporting soon if and when we see notable changes.

Update: According to the Adobe Flash Lite site, version 3.1 brings the following changes:

Update 2: Using the 5800 XpressMusic to watch the Desktop version of Youtube via the S60 browser, reveals much smoother video and quicker transition from standard to fullscreen view. But the biggest improvement comes to the Youtube seek bar: before the update it was most of the time difficult or impossible to use the seek bar, now it works perfectly.

Device info: EURO 5800 XpressMusic with latest v.21.0.025 firmware

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