Besides the above post, there is also the option of making a petition to nokia so they may bring flash 10 to n900.

What does Nokia care? You've already bought the device, so they've already made their money. And there's still a huge customer base that is still frothing at the mouth to buy the next Nokia product.

Let's see... HTC Desire, EVO 4G, Motorola Droid, and quite a few others have Flash Player 10.1 now. Still no word from Nokia is... downright unacceptable.

What's the excuse for this?

I guess Nokia decided that they never will get there hands on the N900 maemo5 System again. I wouldnt wonder if they dont may speak about it on the Nokia HQ couse its banned.

This is ironic but the sad truth. Did we see anything from Nokia for our N900 devices since PR1.2? Anything?

Many will argue that new builds of the OS exist now. Many will argue that Flash 10.1 isn't needed or wanted. Many will argue... a lot of things.

But what's not arguable? Froyo is being released on more than just the Nexus One, thus Flash 10.1 is showing up on quite a few handsets that were previously only speculation. And ultimately, the N900 has no concrete date of when this is going to happen for Maemo 5.

Those are the facts.

For the record - we did. The first release of the Web Runtime, an update to QtMobility and a low-level camera API no other platform has. All this while most of Nokia was on vacation. The problem is that users have firmware blindness - no service or upgrade is noticed unless it is part of a firmware. Which is bad, because at some point some manager will say 'hey, why release this, let's wait and run it through the firmware process, if that makes people happy'.

That said, I wouldn't hold my breath for Flash 10. By now it is clear that the Open Screen Project does not work, and that vendors do not wish bear the cost Adobe is trying shift to them. Currently, this means Flash ports are done by 3rd parties (like Movial doing Flash for MeeGo and Android), which in turn means an almost guaranteed bad support cycle. I'm not too optimistic on the future of Flash on mobile platforms, the youngest crop of Android devices got 10.1, but every next upgrade will be fight even for them.

Flash 10.1 will cut back on video hosting costs in two ways and I think a lot of major hosts will want to switch to using these new delivery methods as soon as possible, when most people on the web have Flash 10.1 installed and not 10.0 or earlier.

Traditionally the Flash Player has had to download an entire video over http at once, even parts the viewer doesn't watch. If someone doesn't watch the entire video then it's a waste of bandwidth for the host. Some sites have deliberately slowed video downloads so viewers who click off early aren't as likely to download the entire file, but it still happens.

With http dynamic streaming the video is sent only in chunks and stitched together by the player(NetStream.AppendBytes()). So if someone watches part of a video they will only download part of the video, guaranteed. The host doesn't have to use bandwidth throttling and it's even an improvement over RTMP streams because of the ability to have a larger buffer. RTMP streams can annoyingly skip if the viewer's download speed is too slow.

Flash 10.1 also makes it possible to have a "zero cost" video site with P2P file sharing. Here's a proof of concept posted last week:

http://www.flashrealtime.com/video-o...t-replication/

Funny that, http has supported byte range requests for files since forever..

Coincidentally, the youtube http server lies and says it doesn't support resume, but actually does..

MPlayer can stream and seek inside .avi without downloading the entire file, over http, when the http server supports resume.. So it sounds to me like they're first sabotaging regular resume, and then fixing it by reinventing something new they can sell or patent..

I hate that I cant stream music from http://www.deezer.com/en/ and it's a shame. I know there are alternatives like last.fm etc but thats not the point. Deezer has various mobile options as well including Android, Iphone, Blackberry etc but nothing for Maemo heart broken!