Well, here's something of a surprise. In addition to demonstrating Flash running on phones like the Nexus One and Palm Pre at the now-happening Web 2.0 Expo, Adobe also has a prototype
Android tablet of some sort on hand that, according to
Zedomax, runs Flash and Air apps "flawlessly." Unfortunately, there doesn't appear to be any details at all on the tablet itself, and judging from the looks of things, it is a prototype in the truest sense of the word (check out the other shot after the break). It does seem to deliver the goods when it comes to Air and Flash, however, with it able to run Wired's Air-based magazine app and play YouTube videos without so much as a hiccup, although we'd definitely like to see it in a few more taxing situations. See for yourself in a pair of all too brief videos after the break.
Update: looks like that "flawless" Flash performance is all thanks to
Tegra 2, as we've been informed by NVIDIA just now. Here's the statement:
"It is indeed Tegra 2. We worked closely with Adobe to show how next-gen Tegra can bring the complete web to tablets at Web 2.0.
You can expect to start seeing Tegra 2 devices appearing this summer, with plenty on the way in the third and fourth quarters of the year."
posted May 4th 2010 8:44PM
man that cop car was driving good
Yep, and check out the enormous circuitry on the bottom-side. Prototype =/= real device.
Everybody we seriously need to listen to iSteve and banish this article from the site. iSteve told us flash was not made for touch screen and clearly from watching the videos he is right. All I can say is a iFail.
I have seen videos online of the iPad running great html5 canvas demos.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfmbZkqORX4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVjIsL8qwNw&feature=youtube_gdata
Steve Jobs sucks
I hope adobe can pull it off!
And so it begins...
Anyone else notice the sprint logo quickly thrown into the 1st demo video?
I did not see anywhere in any of the videos of flash working - except for FLASH VIDEOS playing back. Big whoopdie doo, where are the flash apps being demo'ed?
If they are demo'ing just flash video, I don't need flash to play them, I have HTML5. If they can get flash apps to play at full speed, then that's something to brag about.
Can you put it in a kitchen cabinet? Then it will truly be a break-through device.
To be honest the YouTube video was pretty choppy...YouTube plays trueoy flawlessly on my iPad.
This thing is obviously atom based...it looks like a mini PC from the side.
What a cheat
I was close to buying an ipad, but I'd rather support the underdog, And lets face facts, it looks less like mac vs pc now.
I paint an draw and the ipad could have been great for me, maybe it will be if it ends up supporting a canvas over 1024 x 8xx resolution, But for now it does nothing good for me other than web browsing.
IMO Adobe does need to get its act together. For me (on a pc) flash strangles my cpu ATM, A Duo with nvidia, particulaly with chrome and all the ads.
I will wait for a tablet that is a better nett-book replacement in an adult manner. Yes the ipad works nice and it does "cool" stuff, but £500+ is not an amount I spend lightly. Credit where it's due, Apple have a good design, it will take time for developers to get somewhere similar IMO. In the mean time I still have Bloons.
@No Name flash on my vaio laptop, and my desktop, has a negligible effect on performance using chrome and IE8.
@ajwoodhouse Could be my 1 gig of ram (partly). But the fan goes up more loading flash than any html5 vids, noticeably much hotter.
+ I don't like this idea of constantly needing to update hardware for the net. Maybe I will just lay off it, but I bet it will improve, with or without Adobe. I'm not suggesting it's just them but it seems unwise to think it's the best it can be.
Devises running flash prove this to some extent don't they? Or is that a full OS that draws the power.?
Nice. I can't wait for an Android tablet. Or in other words, a real tablet!
Is that how you compete with the iPad? Mine does Flash, really?
I like how they edited the scrolling, it's like on the iPhone, not as "slippy" and actually moves over the edge of the page too. nice :)
I see everyone seems to be discussing about HTML 5 but did anyone notice that in the first video all the magazine covers he was sliding through had some sort of relevance to the current state of technology and its adaptation of flash.
"Cash for Geeks" = Flash... isnt it?
"Maintating Status Quo" = every computer has flash, tablets and phones should too!
"how to fail" - dont adopt flash..lol
"industrial Revolution" - yea thats how important flash is... its a complete game changer...
@ddddd
iSteve just wants to help us. If Zynga was smart and built everything in html 5 the company will be worth 8 billion now.
no but flash is locked down and exclusive and it breaks my poor mac and wah wah wah...
Yer that's al very well but what's he battery life going to be like while playing these Flash video's compared with non flash I bet it half's any battery
It's funny how the Apple defenders are actually ANGRY that Adobe appears to be delivering what they promised with the new Flash Player. I wonder if it's because they know how much collective egg on the face they will share with Jobs for their intense, baseless, sheep-like dismissals of Flash.
Face it, folks. Apple makes some nice devices (typing this on my mac pro) and Steve Jobs is a visionary. But his downfall has always been that he's an enormous, vindictive dickhead, and it might well be Apple's downfall by extension.
Just look at his history - everyone who's worked with him at Apple, NeXT and Pixar say he's a total self-absorbed dick. He got fired from Apple for doing exactly the kind of shit he's doing right now with this Flash/Google/everyone but Apple warfare - swinging his dick around over personal vendettas rather than doing what's right for Apple and their customers. In the end, this growing enemy list might well hobble growth of the iDevice platform, as more and more developers and consumers alike turn their backs not on Apple, but its arrogant, aggressive and self-absorbed CEO. So sad, because I used to look up to him.
It appears that they left out this video which shows just how smooth and flawless Flash is on this device.
http://www.youtube.com/v/3hqFTx8rLsg
I mean, look at how fluid that animation is when flash crashes the browser.
I wish that everyone here that claims to know anything about interactive (Flash or HTML), would first be required to post links to the work they have done. Some of these comments are hilariously misinformed, and ignorant.
Engadget: "although we'd definitely like to see it in a few more taxing situations" Scrolling/Moving large amounts of text (vector, not png representations of text) has always been one of the most taxing processes for Flash, which this video demonstrates it doing flawlessly.
Also to any one doubting weather existing Flash applications / Web sites will be compatible with touch screen devices, ask yourself what the difference is between some one "rolling over" a button in Flash, or HTML. The answer of course is that there is none.. none difference.
So yes if you have a drop down menu on roll over and not on click whether it be in flash or HTML, you will indeed have to re-write it.
Video as well as a more detailed description of what Flash events are available on a touch screen device here:
http://www.mikechambers.com/blog/2010/02/22/flash-player-content-mouse-events-and-touch-input/
AAPL
Arrogant
Apple
Profit
Loser
Don't let your success got to your head Jobs.
So every mobile device that comes out now will be judged mainly on the fact that it can or can not "do Flash"? Pretty sad.