The ultimate plan is to launch Symbian^4 so N8 might hang like N900

Quite frankly I see this as just another example of Nokias complete lack of communication. These forums are rife with threads thousands of posts long speculating about things that could be put to rest with a one line communication from Nokia. whoever runs their public relations department needs a friggin beating.

there are to versions built in the the sense phones others down-loadable but there is a version cap

there are already flash lite 4 android devices out that are 10.1 compatible so what are you talking about????????????

I played with the browser of my friend's nexus one and the flash player was slow. for example, video playback from youtube was worse than n900. tried some flash sites and they were not faster either.

I thought flash 10.1 was mostly about hardware acceleration but the performance didn't look like it was 'accelerated' at all?? any ideas on this?

All reports on this are conflicting. If you check out the latest podcast from Engadget they say that at Google I/O, Google stated it wasn't going to be hardware accelerated, but the interview that Engadget conducted with Adobe Labs they specifically said the Nexus One is going to be hardware accelerated. No one really seems to know. Some believe that Adobe is kind of picking hairs by saying that because 2D may have software acceleration, but not 3D or it will only have acceleration for non-flv files and such. I've also heard reports that the Snapdragon platform on its one cannot have actual hardware acceleration(but I can't verify that outside of conversations with other gadget hobbyists). They really shouldn't call this mobile version 10.1 because people will think the experience will be the same as a desktop edition, when it really isn't. No one quite knows.

Back to the topic of the thread, I think its a big ridiculous that Nokia can't make the effort to update Flash. As some have said, they've been demoing 10.1 on the N900 as early as Fall 2009(granted the reports may be incorrect about the version) and here we are 6 months later and Nokia has nothing concrete about the topic. I'm not even asking for hardware acceleration, but just allow us to see the content. I have no real idea of what the difference from Flash 9 to Flash 10(or even Flash 10 to Flash 10.1), but I don't understand why Flash is so fragmented in the sense that its not backwards compatible by any means.

They really just need to do something because for this device to already be nearly done in a 6 month span is an extreme disappointment. I understood that the lack of apps was a shortcoming, but the Browser was meant to complete the experience, but without all the features of the Browser, the phone will be a bit disappointing. I haven't even finished paying the thing off yet!

was his Nexus One running froyo (v2.2)?

beta, not official AFAIK

As a former N900 owner who traded for the Nexus, Flash browsing and the slide out keyboard were the only things I missed from the n900. Now, with FroYo and Flash 10, I finally got my flash! There is no cursor mode like the n900 but other than that, its pretty damn smooth.

The n900 just wasn't for me and I consider myself a gadget freak as well. The Android OS just feels more complete to me as opposed to Maemo where it seemed I had to do too much under the hood to take full advantage of the phone. Not to mention that I'm very noobish when it comes to linux. Add the large Android Community and developers to all that and it was hard for me to stay away.

yes it was.