Reference to Flash found in G900 whitepaper

By ares on April 14th, 2008

xtream from p1blog.com found some interesting bit of info on the now removed G900 whitepaper

Check the article here

Categories: Apps, Coming Soon, Sony Ericsson, Symbian, UIQ, UIQ 3.0, rumors
Tags: Apps, fl3, flash, Sony Ericsson, UIQ, UIQ 3.0

ilias74 on Apr 14th, 2008 at 5:47 pm

Very good find ares, bravo!
asri on Apr 15th, 2008 at 9:48 am

Technically, our UIQ 3 smartphones do not need FL3 to be able to play FLV files.

With proper codecs and player like what has been achieved by MobiTubia & emTube for S60 3rd Edition, FLV files play just fine. Thanks to libavcodec, a rich media library which supports a lot of media formats.

But there’s no developer who are bold enough to utilise libavcodec for UIQ 3 yet.

However, FL3 is needed to play FLV files directly in internet browser.

Cheers!
Dorman on Apr 16th, 2008 at 4:12 am

What this mean, SE P1i can’t run Flash appl?
asri on Apr 16th, 2008 at 7:51 am

@Dorman,

yes. At the moment, P1i and all existing UIQ 3 smartphones are not able to run flash app because the core technology (FL3) is not available for UIQ 3 platform.

Seriously, i much prefer a standalone flash (FLV) player, like Mobitubia to play youtube videos, for example. Come on developers, show us some mercy and bring libavcodec to UIQ 3.

FL3 is needed for flash apps, play videos in browser and what else?

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