14 DAY TRIAL // Nexus One, the Android-based mobile phone sold in the US directly via Google's web store, has been caught in the wild before running Adobe's Flash technology, and now a new video demonstration of the solution on this device has emerged. This time around, Adobe themselves decided to demonstrate what Flash Player 10.1 on Nexus One is all about, mainly so as to provide some additional details on the battery performance of the handset when the technology is enabled.
There are several scenarios that Adobe claims they have taken into consideration when it comes to Flash and mobile phones, especially since the battery life of any handset is influenced by more than one factor, including the use of 3G, WIFI, Bluetooth or GPS, or the number of applications that are running on the device. The combinations of test scenarios they list include: Idle – No 3G, Wifi, Bluetooth, IR; Idle – No 3G, Wifi, Bluetooth, IR + backlight ON; 3G enabled – Wifi, Bluetooth, IR off; WIFI + vanilla HTML. ’simple.html’; 3G + vanilla HTML. ’simple.html’; and 3G + vanilla HTML file + swf: ’simple-swf.html’.
“Remember that our mobile optimized runtime Flash Lite (shipped on over a Billion phones) and has been used extensively for User Interfaces on mobile phones from Samsung, Sony Ericsson and LG, so this is something that we know quite a bit about. During our testing of Flash Player 10.1 we have baseline tests against the [above] use cases (among others), and using a multi-meter to ensure that your content runs with acceptable battery consumption. We’re also testing against the web on sites like youtube, blip.tv and others with great performance reaching to hours of playback on the Nexus One,” Adobe states in a recent post on the FlashMobileBlog.
The video below, 17 minutes long, shows that the battery performance for the Nexus One is not affected as much when it comes to using the browser continuously. According to Adobe, they have invested a lot on Flash Player 10.1 and AIR so as to deliver the best results on mobile phones. Moreover, the company also notes that the recently spotted video with Nexus One playing the Flash-based 'Farmaville' Facebook game courtesy of a leaked HTC Desire ROM is not that accurate in the end. The idea is that “the HTC Desire ROM is running a new alpha version of Flash Lite that supports AS3, it is not Flash Player 10.1,” Adobe concludes.
Battery Performance with Flash Player 10.1 on the Nexus One from Mark Doherty on Vimeo.