I'm here at the web2.0 expo and played with the Android tablet for 10-15 minutes today as well as with their Droid phone that has flash installed.<p>A few notes. I didn't see any software crashes. The tablet, on the other hand, did have quite a few hardware problems. But that's because it was literally made just this demo. The tablet is encased in a clear plastic case that looked like it was hacked together in some lab. One of the Adobe employees told me it had "a motherboard and NVIDIA card". Some of the hardware connections were loose apparently because when I would set it down on the table a bit too sharply, some of the buttons would fire sometimes sending me back to the home screen. The touch screen didn't seem the best quality as someone else noticed. It wasn't very responsive. Not sure if that was a hard drive or software problem.<p>On the Droid, I watched a movie preview on Yahoo Movies and it played flawlessly.<p>So as for me, from what I saw today, I'm cautiously optimistic about flash on phones/tablets. I'd still prefer HTML5 of course but flash on phones will work as Flash is slowly replaced over the next 5-6 years.
The author of the video posted the following comment on the video's page:<p>"zedomax @InfiniteStyleBlog Actually I pressed the home button, it didn't crash, Android OS gives u an error message if it does crash so just to clarify. I think I was trying to hit the Back button and hit the Home button."
Alpha software is alpha-quality. It takes time to get things right.<p>My pre-release stuff is full of bugs...which is why it's pre-release. Seems like it's a bit early to judge the quality of their product.
It's a prototype; of course it crashed. But I don't understand why mobile Flash demos usually entail watching a YouTube movie... isn't that a solved problem? Doesn't seem like a good selling point for Flash.
If you look at the YouTube player UI in the demo, it appears to be YouTube's HTML5 player, not their Flash player.<p>Edit: I've been corrected here - for some Flash videos, they use the HTML5 style UI, and for some Flash videos they use the old style one. Presumably the demo really was Flash, although I'm not sure why you'd want Flash over HTML5 on a browser that supports it like the Android one.
Those look like Tegra reference boards, not a product prototype.<p>more pics & video on Engadget:
<a href="http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/05/an-eyeful-of-adobes-android-tegra-prototype-tablet-running-ai/" rel="nofollow">http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/05/an-eyeful-of-adobes-andro...</a>
I've kept my mouth shut for a while now, but I have to be honest - I can't stand this fucking bullshit anymore. Do you realize how pathetic you look by posting this back-and-forth tech company drivel? I don't have or use an Android, an iPhone, a Palm or whatever other pointless gadget everyone here masturbates to, so I'm not saying this as a fanboy of anything. I'm just tired of seeing all this tech <i>gossip</i> posted to the front page. It's not interesting, it's not new and it makes Hacker News appear no better than Reddit - read some of the comments in this thread to see what I mean.
Here's the bonus...<p>If you read the article that sourced this video the author claimed "It runs Adobe’s Flash and Air apps flawlessly." I actually laughed out loud reading that after seeing the video.<p><a href="http://zedomax.com/blog/2010/05/04/android-multi-touch-tablet-prototype-hands-on-review-web-2-0-expo/" rel="nofollow">http://zedomax.com/blog/2010/05/04/android-multi-touch-table...</a>