How is the battery life with streaming video? I do not own an N900, but I everything I have seen and heard from people who did buy them is that the battery life is shit.
I haven't owned any other smartphones, but the N900 battery life seems OK. It easily lasts a day if I use it heavily (browsing, tethering, GPS mapping, etc). If I just use it as a phone/instant messaging device I end up charging every other day.
Is there a way to switch it off? I do not look forward to going back to loads of ads on a page, especially if they are flash.
Yes, of course. Maemo is a platform built on belief in giving users a choice.
Ok, can you switch it off easily in the software, or do you need to recompile. Can you switch it on on a flash app basis, so a screen might have an ad and a video, then you can play the video only?
If so, that is great. I still don't miss Flash on my iPhone, and definately want to still keep on missing it.
On my N810, I can switch it off in the default browser as a what seems to be per-process setting. It takes three touches to toggle it from the main browsing screen. I don't know what it is on the N900, but I really doubt they'd downgrade it to a compile option.
Other browsers available on the platform might have different functionalities — in particular, the alpha/beta of Opera Mobile has click-to-Flash—like functionality.
Re:Brad Feld ditches his iPhone
by halostatue on Thursday May 20, 2010 @09:52PM
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For me, iPhone == Rogers or iPhone == Bell or iPhone == Telus.
When Verizon is on LTE, we'll probably see multiple iPhone carriers in the U.S.
1) The pragmatics of the platform means that iPhone == AT&T. You have to get both, so it's fair to box them together.
2) Mobile flash runs great on my Nokia N900. Even streaming full-screen video.