Adobe: webOS Flash beta coming "later this year" 28
Attention anybody who cares about Flash (we know you're out there): Adobe today released their first public beta version of Flash 10.1. The released version currently is only available for Windows, Macs (Intel only), and Linux users - though Adobe has promised that versions of 10.1 for smartphones will be coming later. The only smartphone platform with a defined “later” is webOS. To be specific:
“A prerelease version of Flash Player 10.1 is now available for Windows, Macintosh and Linux operating systems. A beta is expected to be available for Palm webOS later this year.”
When exactly later this year will be is uncertain, but there are only a few dozen days left before the calendar flips to 2010. In the meantime, you can sign up for a notification for when the Flash 10.1 for webOS beta arrives. Or you can just check back here, as you can be sure that we’ll be all over it, with the final version expect to come early next year. And while the risk-takers amongst you are waiting for their desktop-version of the Flash beta to download, you can check out the Flash 10.1 on a Palm Pre demo video that Adobe posted last month.
[via: Engadget]
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Does this mean we will see a webos update to take advantage of the GPU by the time the beta is available?
One would hope.
My first thought as well.
I would say Yes and No
I have a very strong feeling that engg in Palm are working with Adobe closely to get flash on the machine. So the might have utilized the GPU for flash. but that may not mean they have the time or the resources to upgrade all their OS. May b the placeholders for flash that we have seen in 1.3.1 may already ahve the flash capabilities to access the GPU.
I will b more than happy to see the GPU being used for something though!!!
Setting Standards... I am getting very excited to see where Palm is headed w/ WebOS. Love it. and to see Palm leading the way with Flash is incredible! Thank you Palm! now we just need Video Recording and we are in like Flint! :-D LOVE YOU PALM!!!???
Also, dont forget voice dialing and visual voice mail.
VOice dialing is useless. Haven't used it in many of my phones. Now, visual voice mail is a MUST!. That is so much easier and sweeter. Can't believe it wasn't done since the beggining. Still have hopes for that and obviously for video recording, which is for sure coming soon!
In my opinion, voice dialing is *essential* for safe use of cell phones while driving. For me - again, IMHO - visual voice mail is useless.
If you have a Google Voice account, have you tried GDial Pro for Visual voice mail? Now that Sprint has free conditional forwarding, you can send unanswered calls to GV and use GDP to display your calls, read a transcript of the voice mail, and click on the "listen" button to hear the message (all without using minutes). The newer versions of GDP on Preware remember your last screen so you can always have the app open to visual voice mail. I've been using it for about a week now and it works great. A Palm/Sprint supported solution would of course be best but this is a great workaround in the meantime.
You are whacked. I know THREE people who passed on the Palm Pre because it didn't have voice dialing. Even cheapy Moto phones have voice dialing.
I would love to have it, but it didn't stop me from getting a Pre.
I have this eerie feeling since Palm started the touch screen and multi-tasking that a new platform for video recording is coming along side of Flash 10.1 which also includes audio recording. I honetly think this is why we're behind on apps. I think Palm is working everyone on this new video and flash to where after this comes out, a new slew of apps will be available. Think of it. No one will have Flash before us not even Apple. I may be right and I hope I'm not wrong, because a high def vid recorder and flash will put us back on the map. Which is why I think Verizon is waiting. Time for my Christmas presents Palm
I noticed that at the beginning of the video, the guy had a fully charged battery but by the end of the video he had almost no battery left (dark red bar). Flash will be useless if it eats through the entire battery in 3 minutes! Hopefully this video was shot in segments over many hours of filming and not with only 3 minutes of actual Flash use. Eeek!
The battery bounces all around during the video - definitely multiple takes.
I just installed Flash Player 10.1 on my desktop and I can already tell the difference. Huge improvement..
I like Flash as a tool but I hate it as web-content "accent". I've got no problem having Flash in there as long as there is an option to block it in the browser like Firefox's NoScript plug-in.
flizash on that izass! hahaha! i'm anxious.. i feel like I have something new to play with every month!
AMEN !!!
Tell me again why I want flash?
Really, I can't think of any. Video streaming I guess but that can and should be done with open standards based streams. Nothing else comes to mind.
Yes, it can all be done with different standards, but nobody is doing it. If you need another reason, check out the iPhone app store... 99% of what you see there is available for free on the web as a flash application. Maybe it is for a consumer base you are not a part of, but there are plenty of people looking forward to it.
Seems like we've all forgotten that Flash allows for the creation of some serious applications in the hands of skilled programmers.
Hobnox Audiotool comes to mind (http://www.hobnox.com/index.1056.en.html) and is particularly impressive. Or VizualPV3D (http://www.juxtinteractive.com/work/vizualpv3d/) a Flash-based 3D object modeler currently in alpha.
I agree that the prospect of annoying banner ads is, well, annoying. Regarding video streams: yes, video can be streamed in all sorts of formats, many of them open source, but Flash is far and away the dominant platform.
So will we be able to download the beta version ourselves?
I'd like to know this too. It's very possible that the beta version will only be for the emulator. I'm sure the people at webos-internals will find a way to get it on the phone regardless though.
PALM: *PLEASE* if/when you do add Flash, make it OPTIONAL. Allow us to quickly toggle it on and off during browsing. Allow us an option to only show if clicked....
It is hard enough to read a small screen without crappy Flash animation moving things around, slowing the phone to a crawl, chewing through the battery, and making noise when we don't want or expect it!
Flash = great. Forced Flash with no user control = horrible.
Hope the placeholder in the 1.3.1 browser means that there will be Flash-on-demand and not any autoload. Just imagine a website full of flash ads and how slow would it take to load all that crap... I think that Palm already knows that.
it's not a original stuff
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And with 16 days left in 2009 folks can still sign up to be notified when he beta will be available, which very likely means no beta in 2009 and no full release in Feb '10. Release date peculation was fun for the first few months for he Pre, but that game is played out. Wake me when the RC is available.
I'm glad i'm not the only person monitoring this. I'm guessing next month for the beta....but it would have been nice to play with it and hunt out choice sites over my vacation.
i love my pre so much. My name is Ted please see me soon i want to marry it