iPod, iPad, iPhone 4G Sure To Get Camera With Flash

May 19, 2010 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

Besides AT&T tethering and some groovy background images, the iPhone 4 Beta 4 update does have exciting information to share with us.  We are pretty sure the iPhone 4 is going to have a LED Flash, no surprise there.

But maybe some other devices are going to have cameras with a Flash?  iPad?  iPod touch?  it wasn’t immediately apparent from any of the recent prototypes, but there it is, in the iPhoneOS 4 code Read more…

Virgin America Drops Flash to Support iPhone

March 03, 2010 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

Startup airline Virgin America has decided to drop Flash in favor of HTML5 and iPhone support for its new website, according to The Register.

Chief Information Officer Ravi Simhambhatla told The Reg: “I don’t want to cater to one hardware or one software platform one way to another, and Flash eliminates iPhone users. This year is going to be the year of the mobile [for Virgin].” Read more…

Adobe Flash 10.1 to Finally be “Just Right” for iPhone?

October 05, 2009 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

Adobe Flash 10.1 for Mobile

Adobe is working on Flash 10.1, which is a version that’s finally supposed to suck less — battery power and cpu cycles, that is. Meaning, it might just be a contender to finally bring acceptable performance to mobile clients like the iPhone sometime in 2010, even if everyone BUT Apple has signed on at this point.

Back up: since the iPhone debuted with the first mobile web client that actually rendered “just the internet”, some users have clamored for Flash. And why now? They were used to that also being on “just the internet”. However, the iPhone was still a mobile device and Flash is still notorious for bloat, bugs, and otherwise non-Mobile friendly behavior (and no, we won’t mention the increased Read more…