“Adobe’s launch of Flash 10.1 for Android is almost single-handedly responsible for slowing down the experience of the browser and the Android phone themselves, early adopters have discovered in a test,” Electronista reports.
“While Flash is installed, the browser on a Nexus One is slower to load content than both an iPhone and an HTC HD2,” Electronista reports. “Android 2.2 is significantly faster without the plugin, but the OS with Flash installed bogs down PocketNow’s phone to where it produces a low memory error after visiting only a few websites.”
Electronista reports, “The plugin is still in a beta stage and has room for optimization, but some of the slowdown can be attributed to Flash itself.”
PocketAndroid 2.2 (Froyo) Web Browser Speed Test:
Direct link to video via YouTube here.
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Unsurprisingly, lazy Adobe fails yet again. Some advice for the ingrates at Adobe: Spend less time whining and more time coding HTML5 tools, bitches.
[Update: 1:44pm EDT: Added “the ingrates at” in Take as per TheMacAdvocate’s request.]
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fred Mertz” for the heads up.]
Watch the battery on the Android phone between 7:03 and 7:05
Ok. That battery hit at 7:00-7:15 is unacceptable in any situation. I’m still trying to decide if I really want flash, let alone need it. If that is what the flash experience brings, no thanks.
You know a week ago Google and Adobe were going to deliver Flash to everything. By Thursday morning they were just going to deliver it to Froyo equipped phones. By Thursday evening they can only verify that it will run optimally on mobile websites not all Flash websites……
ugh, ugh!.
OVER PROMISE, UNDER DELIVER. = B. S.
I am totally convinced that the Android people are going to be disappointed when they finally get their hands on a Froyo phone. Just you wait for Steve’s announcement. He’s sitting back soaking it all in; taking notes and staying on track with what Apple has penned for ages. Unlike this fly-by-the-britches group of wannabes.
All it will take is one announcement, as it did in Europe: iPhone on Verizon. Then it’s all over!