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Skyfire 2.0 beta for Android

I'm about to eat my words. Yesterday i said that Skyfire was a waste of time. It's most certainly not. Skyfire has debuted their 2.0 beta, which looks pretty darn nice. It's at the very least an awesome solution to watching Flash videos in the interim. Especially if you're not going to be a part of the 2.2 update.

I noticed right away that you still can't scroll through the video, but hey, Flash videos are playing on you're phone, right? You're doing a whole lot better than you were before!

I haven't put it on my phone to test it out, and honestly I'm not to hungry for it, but the cool fellaz at Engadget did and this here demo shows some very nice action from their Nexus One. It's not only flash-video-friendly but has this very cool feature to force Desktop detection, which i like a lot. Sometimes i don't want a website to detect that I'm on a mobile device and automatically forward me to the m.whatever.com version of their site. Having that option is actually quick useful.

Enjoy the vid. Post a comment.

Six things I looked at tonight that I thought were worth sharing regarding Flash 10.1 and Android 2.2...

1. Flash 10.1 requires a device with an ARM v7 (Cortex) processor. Examples include the Qualcomm Snapdragon chipsets and TI OMAP3 series. Here is an unofficial list of U.S. Android phones that will not support Flash 10.1:
   - Sprint Hero
   - Sprint Moment
   - T-Mobile G1
   - T-Mobile myTouch 3G
   - T-Mobile CLIQ (getting Android 2.1)
   - T-Mobile Behold II
   - Verizon Droid Eris (Flash Lite)
   - Verizon Devour (Flash Lite)


2. Adobe is set to deliver Flash Player 10.1 by the end of June - or by the second half of 2010 at least. It will support Android phones, BlackBerry Those phones include Android models as well as those running Windows Phone 7, the BlackBerry OS, Symbian OS, and Palm's WebOS.


3. Based on hardware specs, the Google Nexus One, Droid Incredible, and Motorola Droid are definitely eligible for Android 2.2, aka Froyo, and will include the support for Flash 10.1. Both Flash Player 10.1 and Adobe AIR 2.0 for Android are in pre-release testing. Most are expecting Froyo to appear at the Google I/O conference in May. It's successor is code-named Gingerbread.


4. Most battery performance tests of video playing on the Nexus One over WIFI from YouTube in H.264 (Baseline 1.2) report about 4 hours playback time. Check out this site for more detailed info.


5. There's a really cheesy browser out that acts like it uses Flash to open videos, called Skyfire. It's not worth your time.


6. And just because... Froyo is defined as... Frozen yogurt!! ...(also known as frozen yoghurt or by the tradenames FroYo and Frogurt) is a frozen dessert made from, or containing yogurt or other dairy products. It is slightly more tart than ice cream, as well as lower in fat (due to the use of pure milk instead of cream). It differs from ice milk (more recently termed low-fat or light ice cream), which does not include yogurt as an ingredient.

Of course, most of this info is subject to change as most of it is rumor-based. I hope you enjoyed the read through! Post comments below if you find any errors or updates, I dont mind being blasted :-P

Google has acquired the Bump Technologies Inc., which means they now own the BumpTop desktop replacement application. I have never heard of BumpTop before today, but let me summerize my review by saying it's freekin rad! I haven't used it yet, but it looks awesome.

// TED video // Google Acquires BumpTop //

You can still download BumpTop(Free) for Windows and Mac until the end of the week. The application claims to be lightweight even though it completely replaces your desktop. As soon as i get back to my computer i am trying this thing out. It looks so awesome!

The rumor is "Google's purchase has brought speculation over whether the Internet giant will fuse Bump technology with its Android operating system software to imbue mobile gadgets like a tablet computer with 3D capabilities." I would like to see it become a part of the Chrome OS before an Android phone, but since having a desktop app on a cloud-based computer is sort of a contradiction...that probly won't happen.


So, are you going to go download BumpTop right now before their website is gone forever? I'm sure you could still download it from CNET or something after "the end of the week," but I'm not gonna waste another day. If I get off work before midnight, it's getting installed tonight! hehe