There’s going to be an Android 3.1? Probably not that much of a shocker since it always seemed like an eventuality after 3.0 Honeycomb, but the source for this bit of news is just a little bit… unexpected. Adobe revealed that there’s going to be an update to Android 3.0 in an update to Flash, of all places. Flash 10.2’s changelog originally showed that it’s going to offer hardware accelerated video presentation when running from Android 3.1, and then they removed it. Droid-Life managed to get a screenshot though, and that’s what you’re looking at up there.
Motorola has just put out a new ad for the Droid 2 that—like the ad for the Droid X that may or may not suffer from deathgrip,—takes its aim at the iPhone. Again. This time, it’s all about support for Adobe’s Flash; a feature that the Android-based Droid 2 offers, and something that the iPhone might never will (at least not without a hack). Also, bonus style points goes to Moto for using the iPhone’s “there’s an app for that” tagline. [full ad after the break.]
“Frash,” the Flash plugin that was tweaked and ported to the normally non-Flash running iPad, has been out in its Alpha form for about a month now, but if you own an iPhone or iPod touch, you’ll be happy to know that your smaller iDevice can now run Flash animations too. Developed by Comex, the guy behind the idiot-friendly Spirit and JailbreakMe jailbreak methods, just released a working Flash plugin for jailbroken iPhone 4, 3GS, and iPod touch 3G/2G. (more…)
Adobe just released a new demo video that shows a peer-to-peer video calling app called FlashTime. Sound familiar? Of course it does, since Apple’s FaceTime feature is probably as good a reason as any to dump your 3GS for the new iPhone 4. This one runs on Android though, since Apple’s iDevices won’t run Adobe’s Flash platform and we don’t expect that arrangement to change anytime soon.
Here’s a new video from Adobe, showing Motorola’s upcoming Droid X running Adobe’s Flash 10.1. Besides showing that yes, you get more of what the web has to offer on an Android 2.2-based phone while the iPhone will show you a small blue box in spaces where Flash-based games and streaming videos would have been.
