Motorola Droid 2, the latest smartphone manufactured by Motorola, is the first smartphone with Android 2.2 Froyo operating system that comes with flash player 10.1 pre-installed. Those from LaptopMag they wanted to check how the new flash player 10.1 runs on the Motorola Droid 2, but unfortunately the results were disappointing. The tests were done by accessing some sites with static flash content, but also some sites with games or video content that is played in flash-based players. Websites with static content were very difficult to load, some of them could not be loaded, many of the flash games are not optimized for touchscreens and need a physical keyboard, video content is rendered clumsily, with lag and interruptions, and all this it is due to the fact that the flash has not been properly optimized to work on mobile terminals.
The difference between the smooth Flash trailers on Sony.com, the jerky episode of CSI, and the system-stalling Flash video on Fox.com is that the smoother ones were optimized specifically for phone playback. But if content providers have to go back and optimize their videos for mobile platforms, one of the key benefits of mobile Flash – backward compatibility with millions of existing videos – is lost. If you're modifying your videos anyway, why not go the full monty and use an HTML 5 player instead of Flash?
Although Steve Jobs criticized Adobe very harshly for the lack of support for mobile terminals and the optimization of flash to not require so many resources, here is that Adobe fails to transform flash into what smartphone users need, and the transition to HTML5 is becoming inevitable for many of the big sites.
