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hey guys its brand amendment from pocket now calm a big deal has been made out of adobe flash on mobile devices Apple has been extremely resistant to it because they think that flash isn't optimized for mobile devices it can slow down the phone or the iPad in the case of the other iOS device and it's just not a good experience for the customer but adobe disagrees and they think that the smartphone platform should support flash because it's so pervasive it's used on a lot of Internet video a lot of internet games and it just makes sense if you want to have the full web experience you should have flash on a mobile device well guess what the motorola droid 2 is among the first devices to come with adobe flash player final meaning this is 10.1 not beta it's the final version from adobe and it's also running android 2.2 so it has the optimized the best possible flash experience in this video we're going to test that out and compare for websites the desktop experience with how it appears on an android device that has the final flash player built in should be interesting let's get to it oh okay so we're going to go through for websites and the first website here is called monoface the web address is mono hyphen 1.com / monoface quite simply it's a mini flash application that lets you change the face of somebody by clicking on their mouth and their nose it's a lot of fun kind of a time waster but it's a good implementation of flash that allows you to have some fun wow that's a scary one so let's turn on the the droid 2 here and we're going to go to this website and see how it looks on on the phone so let's see we're going to go to mono face and wear for Wi-Fi right now let me go into landscape so it says tap to interact ok well it looks like it's already loading ok and here we are the same site on desktop on phone and we can interact with this or at least we should be able to tap on various aspects the mouth is changing as you can see the the hair is changing the nose is changing this is a really good implementation of flash it works perfectly on the mobile device just like you would expect on the desktop so definitely a big win here that is also a very ugly face formato face now let's go to a different website we're going to pull up another favorite here on the desktop or on the laptop we're going to go to a site called to advance calm it's just a really flash heavy website with menu navigations with sound in fact if I turn on the sound over here you'll be able to hear ok and so it's got sound it's got drop-down menus it's a really advanced flash website let's see how Android does with that so we're going to go back into the favorites and here it is too advanced and let's let that load sound is turned on okay so you should be on the sound let me turn it up tight a pinhole what I should get the full screen option so far so good go fullscreen and let's see the extent to which we can manipulate things on the screen that's not working out to LSC now we can zoom in a little bit okay the drop-down menu navigation is working let's go to portfolio or company about us executive team so presumably things are changing on the screen that's tough to tell Leslie zoom out okay so we just did something so in this case if you have a little bit of patience you get the same experience or a very similar experience on them on mobile than you do on the web so this is another good implementation of flash and it works quite nicely on a mobile device so let's go to the next website number three out of four we're going to go to a website called section 7 calm again a very flash intense website with graphics that definitely told the CPU we're to see how the droid two handles this website so quite simply what we do is go down here to open and we get this big animation with these different books that go by and what you do is you tap on one of these and you get a portfolio of projects very very intense let's see how the droid two handles this so we're going to go to section 7 calm go into landscape sorry for getting some reflection there okay so we're getting the similar sort of animation already let's see if we can get this full screen before it even starts here we go okay we should see the fanning out of the pages if this is going to be true to the desktop form so something's happening up there goes very good very good so we should be able to scroll to the right it's a little bit slow and I should tap on a book it should open it's not working this is one of the websites that doesn't actually work as intended because it's just not optimized properly for a mobile device and so if we go back and try to interact with the site it just it's just not working too well and don't even try to open up another tab while you're on something this flash intense because it's really tolling the ram in the CPU of the device so here's an example where flash it doesn't work I just I can't interact with the elements it's just not made for the mobile device so let's try one more thing here we're going to try something that's more interactive we're going to go to mini clips calm which is an online gaming site which is all free flash games so for example we click on any of these and we're brought to a flash page and it says miniclip and we can just demonstrate real quickly how this works on the laptop okay so let's play and I'll just click on anything how to play go by the way there is sound anyway so I can click on stuff and interact although I have no idea what I'm doing so let's get a game up on the droid two from mini clips so again we're going to go into the favorites and pull that up here it is and let's go into landscape and let's see how flash games work on the droid two with Chaz again off the final adobe flash player so here we go we have the desktop view loading right now I'm going to scroll in a little bit and click on save mmm this game here okay okay something's happening okay here we go let's go full screen on this you can see that this is a flash element hmm something happened there let's go back let it load into in this frame okay play that will select so far so good right so we'd love to get this full screen it's not working full screen if we can zoom out hmm here we go full screen so right now it's not being very responsive because it's probably using a lot of the CPU and the ram so here we go full screen there we go here we go okay so love the one is cleared I didn't even do anything yet so let's see how we proceed next level there we go so you adjust the you just the same here tip press spacebar to immediately wonderful space bar works let's see spacebar I don't know what that does I don't really know what I'm doing but as you can see you can interact with the flash games it takes a little bit of knowing how to actually play the game to get it to work but you can see that it is responsive it's a little bit slow and laggy at times but the functionality is absolutely there so let's get out of this so overall as you've seen flesh on the motorola droid 2 really the best implementation of splash that adobe can muster although you can argue that the google nexus one may be able to do better is quite good at this point when we saw it when it was in beta it was horrible it was slow it was laggy just didn't work right in fact we went to pocket now and because pocket now has some flash advertisements it slowed down the site tremendously to the point where we couldn't scroll down the page but in this case probably thanks to a lot of software optimization and thanks to a a fast cpu and enough ram flash works quite well finally on a mobile device it's not perfect and so here we have pocketnow.com there are some flash ads at the top I don't let it finish loading and I'll scroll down the page and give you a sense of how fast scrolling is with flash elements okay so here we go these are some flash ads you'll see an animation over there and up there let's check out scrolling it's a lot smoother than it was it's not perfect you can turn off flash of course by going into the settings and disabling plugins but you probably know how to do that if you have an Android is a device but in the end / on Android has gotten good enough to where you can leave plugins enabled and actually use flash almost like you're using a regular desktop computer it's not quite as good and when we start to get faster processors dual-core processors and smartphones and even more RAM it'll become even better so so far so good if you like this video please thumbs up and don't forget to subscribe to our channel for more smart phone videos that's it for now thanks for watching