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Originally Posted by stopgap View Post
Flash was reported as one of the big features of this phone when it launched, so to say he bought the wrong one doesn't really stand. As for the 10.1 aspect, already many popular sites are not working (needlessly, as it is laziness/incompetence on the developers part a lot of the time). To be perfectly frank, Nokia stated that the N900 comes with Flash - it didn't say it comes with Flash 9, this will be the only version.

It'd be less of an annoyance if it weren't present already on other devices. Nokia don't want to pay the fees to allow their users to upgrade it would seem. Expectation of flash being upgraded in due course, at the time of buy and even after - reasonable I say.
And at the time of release this was the ONLY phone doing FULL flash added to that is the fact that it DID explicitly specify the flash version both in the specs and several reviews posted prior to the release.

As for flash being present on other devices. Welcome to technology. The device you just bought was basically obsolete the day you purchased it. Complaining because devices that are 6-12 months more recent than the N900 are FINALLY getting flash and the N900 isn't shows a failure to grasp the pace at which tech - especially this mobile tech - is currently moving.

On a final note - the flash tweaker I does a pretty good job of fooling most sites that we they should run flash content just fine and I am sure that if you REALLY applied yourself you could find the TI release of the flash plugin somewhere in the big wild internets.
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