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Is it just me, or was the scrolling incredibly slow? And the hockey video's playback choppy? It's also interesting that the phone was being charged, considering
by jtaby 16y ago
Is it just me, or was the scrolling incredibly slow? And the hockey video's playback choppy? It's also interesting that the phone was being charged, considering the battery usage the last time flash was demoed...
- Tichy 16y agoI thought it was pretty impressive. It is a freakin mobile phone. As for battery usage, is there a reason to assume that Flash sucks more battery than other applications? Why would it (except being interpreted)? I guess 3d apps in general would draw more power than "flat" business apps.
- jcl 16y agoIn any discussion of Flash performance, usually someone posts a report of their CPU fan spinning up each time a web page with Flash is running, or a performance meter getting pegged, or the computer's performance notably degrading. So there's reason to suspect that mobile Flash will suck more battery than a native app. It's possible that Flash's movie clip-based object model encourages a "polling" approach to interaction over an event-driven approach, making it harder for the CPU to sleep.
- Tichy 16y agoI don't want to defend Flash, but most Flash apps contain a loop and animations. So it is logical that they consume more CPU time than a static web site.
- not_an_alien 16y agoIf we have the same video in mind, 'the last time' the video was edited and cut in the middle, giving the impression the battery was depleted halfway through. Here's some battery 'benchmarks' (rather, accelerated videos) when playing video with Flash: http://vimeo.com/9705969 http://vimeo.com/9705969 http://vimeo.com/9724682 http://vimeo.com/9724682