iPhone 4 vs AT&T Captivate

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Joji.ak

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I'm really bothered by my iPhone 4, and was thinking about going to the AT&T captivate. And reason why is there no flash for the iPhone 4 even jailbroken still nothing. I work for big corporation and they do quarterly meetings live via Internet and my iPhone 4 can't even connect because it don't support flash.. That's the only reason I wouldn't want to keep my iPhone 4 pretty sad, I even heard that adobe stopped dealing with apple because they won't support there application all because of steve jobs and his control issues. Anyone one have any ideas or opinions about this? I love the iPhone 4 but the flash is a big issue for me and I think everyone?
 
If your iPhone is jailbroken, you can download Frash from Cydia. It is a Flash plug-in for iOS4.
Also, the Android 2.1 that's on the Captivate does not support full flash yet. (Flash 10.x)
 
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 2.1-update1; en-us; SAMSUNG-SGH-I897/I897UCJH3 Build/ECLAIR) AppleWebKit/530.17 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/530.17)

If you need flash right away then I would suggest looking at the nexus one. Its hands down the best phone with android that supports at&t 3g. If you can wait a month or two, the captivate should have the flash capable update by then.
 
Don't even bother with Apple when it comes to Flash in the future. You shouldn't have to use 3rd party apps to get it to kind of work. Flash not only works on 2.2, but it works well. 2.2 should be out soon.
 
http://gizmodo.com/5546439/speed-tests-show-flash-101-slowing-down-android-22-significantly

I hope it's improved since the Beta stages. If not, it's going to be a real slow down for your browser.

http://www.intomobile.com/2010/08/23/install-official-flash-player-on-any-android-2-2-froyo-smartphone/
 
It's still better than having a X in place of where an image may be. It's not just adverts that use flash. iPhone is useless on some sites that I frequent. Heck. One of the sites that I run uses flash to preview video stock that I sell. It's pointless to even visit my site on an iPhone. It'll be interesting to see the Captivate on 2.2 though with Flash. It should be the fastest android device out there for Flash.
 
If you get Flash on your Froyo, I advice using Dolphin Browser HD. While browsers do allow you to turn Flash on and off, on Dolphin Browser HD, Flash advertisements and videos appear with a grey space with a green downward arrow. This means your web page download is fast and the scroll of the webpage is kept quick and smooth because it is not interrupted by Flash overhead. When you want to view the Flash, you click on the grey space, and the video player or the ad will appear. Call it Flash by demand.
 
Frash works fine on the iPhone. I see all Flash content. Of course you have to be jailbroken. Yeah, it sucks that you have to have a 3rd party app to do that, but it also sucks that you have to have a 3rd party app on my Android phone to take screen shots. Give & Take.
 
Having a 3rd party app on Android to do one thing isn't the same as having to jailbreak, break warranty and then get a third party app from a non approved site on the iPhone to do another.
 
Well, I'll put it this way. With Android, Google will be the ones supporting Flash in the future, and are open to screen cap apps and so on. Apple on the other hand wants to block Flash so they can make more money off of games that on the PC are free through Flash game sites. Apple = controlling features even if it's not better for the consumer. Google = open, or at least a lot more so. Google is about making the standards standard on Android. Apple is about wanting the world to conform to their standards.
 
Only on the Captivate. That's not true with general Android phones.

See Setting > Applications > [] Unknown Sources.

Besides, there is hardly any app outside of the Android Market since there is no restriction to post an app in. Even mods and programs that do root are posted on the Android Market, such as the One Click Lag Fix for the Captivate.
 
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