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[Video] Flash on the Droid!
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Martin030908
Super Moderator
I believe so. Flash 10.1 is reliant on the device having 2.1 or higher.
Mostly I am thinking it will open the door to many possibilities web, games, APP's and more.
Personally I do not need to watch porn, it is all either fake, or just nasty.
Think about the live web cams, weather animation, embedded video, internet television (actual live stuff, not 3 week old streamed garbage), DVR capabilities directly on the phone.
Im up for the live web cams to,no more stuipid ad covered apps. I have a feeling ill notice a big bog down tho,at least for me
SwordOfWar
Member
The biggest thing is watching movies, tv shows, anime and playing flash games.
Almost nearly ever site out there that streams videos use Flash. This basically introduces the Droid to online video streaming.
There are some sites that even require flash just to login or navigate a site. These are less common, but are a pain on the Droid (and useless) right now.
Those who say we won't reach a 5GB cap with flash must be insane. Any media lover is going to kill that 5GB limit with flash. Even if they scale the video down, its still video, and video is a huge bandwidth consumer. Hell a 2 minute high quality video record on the Droid reaches around 50MB and to be honest we all know phone videos (even the Droid's) is no where near the quality of what we use on the internet/computers. Flash allows you people to watch full length movies online, so you do the math.
I've been able to rack up a few GB mainly from Pandora (not even premium, just the standard quality) because the first thing I do when I get in my car is pop the Droid in the car dock and load up Pandora using an FM Transmitter to play it through the car.
I don't think that video scaling feature is possible without server-side (website) support for that. So unless the website you use is optimized to support streaming scaled down videos to the phone, it won't make any difference as far as bandwidth. Now if it scales it down only locally on the phone, that also will not affect the bandwidth. It must be implemented from the website/server to work, most likely.
Almost nearly ever site out there that streams videos use Flash. This basically introduces the Droid to online video streaming.
There are some sites that even require flash just to login or navigate a site. These are less common, but are a pain on the Droid (and useless) right now.
Those who say we won't reach a 5GB cap with flash must be insane. Any media lover is going to kill that 5GB limit with flash. Even if they scale the video down, its still video, and video is a huge bandwidth consumer. Hell a 2 minute high quality video record on the Droid reaches around 50MB and to be honest we all know phone videos (even the Droid's) is no where near the quality of what we use on the internet/computers. Flash allows you people to watch full length movies online, so you do the math.
I've been able to rack up a few GB mainly from Pandora (not even premium, just the standard quality) because the first thing I do when I get in my car is pop the Droid in the car dock and load up Pandora using an FM Transmitter to play it through the car.
I don't think that video scaling feature is possible without server-side (website) support for that. So unless the website you use is optimized to support streaming scaled down videos to the phone, it won't make any difference as far as bandwidth. Now if it scales it down only locally on the phone, that also will not affect the bandwidth. It must be implemented from the website/server to work, most likely.
5GB limit?
I don't want to go too off topic, but you guys/gals are aware that the 5GB cap only applies to mobile data connect cards, mifi's and the like. As long as you are engaging in normal usage (not tethering/botting) there is no restriction (or at least I cannot find any documentation that states other than unlimited).
Related forum thread: http://www.droidforums.net/forum/droid-general-discussions/58-data-plan-required-answer-yes-4.html
VZW acceptible usage: http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/footer/acceptableuse.jsp
I am soooo looking forward to streaming anime on droid!!!
I don't want to go too off topic, but you guys/gals are aware that the 5GB cap only applies to mobile data connect cards, mifi's and the like. As long as you are engaging in normal usage (not tethering/botting) there is no restriction (or at least I cannot find any documentation that states other than unlimited).
Related forum thread: http://www.droidforums.net/forum/droid-general-discussions/58-data-plan-required-answer-yes-4.html
VZW acceptible usage: http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/footer/acceptableuse.jsp
I am soooo looking forward to streaming anime on droid!!!
True the data is unlimited unless ur using a mobile broadband card or tethering but verizon ceo has already annonced that unlim data cannot continue in the future. So when the switch is made to LTE network unlim data will also be gone. Heavy users will pay more hopefully light users will be able to pay less.
Sure they can accept it. But then rates will go up. If they need to increase their network coverage to support it, it costs money. Verizon doesn't just print off money. Each dime they spend was from customer's monthly payments. I personally don't want to pay for some guy that's busting out 20 Gigs a month, when I only use 1 gig a month. I am in favor of a capped and tiered system. You pay for the level of service you want. Cable companies have been doing this for years.
Apples and oranges, man. Your cable company won't send you a bill for $0.50 for every minute you watched TV beyond your 1000 minute TV plan.
While I agree that tiered systems should be considered, I think the unlimited plan should be available.
Oh, and I also think it's asinine for Verizon to say the unlimited data plan is unlimited, until you reach a certain limit. ummmm....what?