Browsing Flex applications on the new Nokia N810 with the Flash Player 9 support

The Nokia N810 seams to be a great mobile phone. It's linux-based and it runs a Debian derivated OS, Maemo, with a custom user interface built with the GTK-based Hildon framework.

The N810 supports WiFi,  a four-inch touchscreen with an 800x480 resolution, Bluetooth, and VoIP via Skype,  GPS and a slide-out keyboard.

But one of the greatest features is the support of the Flash Player 9 as well as PDF documents.
This means that you can launch Flex applications on the N810 phone.
Cooool !

If you want to read more have a look at this detailed review of the Nokia N810.

Comments

[Fabio]

Unfortunately, it is an internet tablet not a phone...

[John Dowdell]

I've been using a Nokia N800 Internet Tablet the past few months, and it's a great device... can get them for $250US now. Doesn't have the GPS or keypad of the N810, but software is the same.

It's not a phone, true. It's a computer, which includes Skype for VoIP. You can Bluetooth your phone to your tablet when outside a WiFi zone. But you choose your telephone separately, true.

Player 9 support is great. The new OS 2008 on the N810 is apparently much faster than that in Maemo OS 2007... video was hard to watch in OS07... I've got to update my N800 to confirm the speedup.

Flex apps work, but watch out for fixed-display size! Nokia tablets are 400x800 pixels, at about four inches by two inches... if you've got small text, please allow for software-based zooming.

Dave Yang and Matt May were early Flash-savvy adopters. Me, I don't think I can go back to not having a pocket internet computer with Flash.

jd/adobe

[Scott Janousek]

Basically, this is Nokia saying: Hey, here's an N800 with a few fixes we know you'll like ... so will you buy it now that we've fixed it?

But seriously, this is more of an experiment to see if people will buy and use this class of device ...

If you did not know ... Nokia is looking to shift more into the "computing" business rather than "phone" business. I read an article about it. They are trying to innovate the company to the next best thing *after* mobile devices.

So ... they are trying new things, and this tablet class of device, is something they are using to see what the customer reaction is.

I hear Apple is also working on a tablet ... but they've been doing so for years. Perhaps now is the time they move on it? ... not sure.

[Texrat]

IT'S NOT A PHONE!!!!

Cripes.

[Douglas McCarroll]

Any idea how easy/practical it will be to install AIR apps on this device, once the Linux version of AIR comes out? I mean, small (400x800) AIR apps...

[Douglas McCarroll]

Actually, looks like it's 800x480...

[Fits]

Has anyone testet the performance of a Flex Application running on the Nokia N810 Tablet?

[Fits]

Has anyone testet the performance of a Flex Application running on the Nokia N810 Tablet?