[Update]: Adobe Not Considering the Original Droid a Flash-Ready Device, As It Stands
Uh-oh. Even if you’ve been running flash on your Motorola Droid newly-adorned with Android 2.2, it seems Adobe’s updated requirements for running Flash on an Android device excludes the phone from being ideal. As the chart now states, a phone with a 550MHz-plus Cortex A8 processor and VGA screen resolution is still capable of running the plugin without problems, but it isn’t until you get into WVGA resolutions (read: close to what the Droid houses) that they start requiring a beefier CPU (800MHz Cortex A8, to be precise).
For you rooters, you won’t give a whoop: the Motorola Droid can be overclocked well beyond 800MHz and your flash content will play just as beautifully as it does on any other speedy device today. For those not into that scene (read: a crap ton of people), your fate has yet to be decided. With these new requirements, will Adobe eventually pull support for the phone? Or will this urge Motorola to ramp up the clock speed on devices through a kernel update?
Would you rather Adobe continue to try and truly optimize the platform for mobile or are they justified in excluding certain devices not up to standards? (even if the chipset is technically capable of handling the plugin, clock speed aside.)
[Update]: Adobe’s gone and made it clear that the Motorola Droid is an exception to these requirements as they’ve updated their page of devices being targeted (the Droid Incredible – although on Android 2.2 with full Flash 10.1 – is not listed, by err. It’ll be added soon, says Adobe.)
[via Droid-Life]