Once those videos activate, however, all slights are pretty much forgiven. You could use that time to check your e-mail, I suppose, but it also presented the near-overpowering urge to simply click away and do something else.

While Flash Player 10.1 might not be a battery hog, it decimates bandwidth like Marlon Brando at a buffet table even with a corporate WiFi connection, many videos had an absurdly long load time-clips on The Wall Street Journal’s Website took 2 minutes to spring to life, and a trailer for the upcoming Angelina Jolie film “Salt” needed 3 minutes. The phone starts running a little warm after 15 minutes of video playing or so, but nothing that I haven’t experienced with a similar smartphone, or a device like the iPod Touch.Īdobe claims that Flash Player 10.1 will slow or shut down during sleep or low-power modes, and make a determination about whether to render assets not actually being displayed on the smartphone’s screen. After three days of testing games and videos, the Nexus One’s battery seemed to drain at a normal rate for Web-intensive activity (for a baseline on that “normal rate,” I’m using my more extensive surfing experiences with the Motorola Droid and Droid Eris). If Flash Player 10.1 offers one appreciable benefit, it’s length of battery life. Having access to 3G, by contrast, could have provided a much fuller picture. Flash Player 10.1 seems designed to counter those accusations, but a few issues with the review Nexus One hobbled the ability to review its Web abilities to the fullest: The device lacked a SIM card, meaning that any testing of the updated Flash’s potential had to be done using WiFi. The beta’s release to reviewers comes as Adobe finds itself under assault by Apple, which has made public its assertions that Flash is too buggy and battery-hungry to effectively run mobile devices.

That’s what Adobe officials claim, at least, and they were willing to support that assertion by sending eWEEK a Nexus One smartphone running the prerelease version of Android 2.2, dubbed “Froyo,” and a beta version of Flash Player 10.1.

Flash Player 10.1 will offer smartphones and other mobile devices the same Web browsing capabilities as desktops, complete with streaming video and Website animations.

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