The SkyFire browser has been accepted into the iOS App Store today, finally giving million of users a chance to watch Flash videos on their devices.
Skyfire 2.0 will go on sale in the App Store tomorrow morning with a price tag of $2.99.
Lack of Flash has been one of the largest drawbacks of owning an iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch, especially since over 75 percent of online videos are encoded with the standard.
Apple CEO Steve Jobs has made it abundantly clear, however, that native Flash will not be supported on Apple devices, ever, as they kill battery life and generally perform poorly.
Skyfire gets around this ban by taking Flash video, renders and translates it to HTML5 and redisplays it, showing users a thumbnail they can click to play the video.
“We will attack those pesky blue Flash error messages,” added CEO Jeffrey Glueck.
It is important to note, also, that over 50 percent of videos online are also encoded with HTML5.
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RIM has unveiled their long-anticipated Playbook tablet today, throwing their contender into the market dominated by the Apple iPad.
“Every successful professional has a great PlayBook,” said Mike Lazaridis, co-CEO of RIM.
The tablet will measure in smaller than the iPad at just 7 inches, but it is thinner at 9.7 millimeters.
Furthermore, the tablet has a rear and front-facing camera, and the ability to natively playback Flash videos.
BlackBerry smartphone owners can tether their devices and use the 3G on the tablet.
The Playbook will not run on RIM’s new BlackBerry 6 OS, however, instead it will run on a brand new mobile operating system created by QNX Software, which was acquired by RIM earlier in the year.
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On the 5th, Google introduced the Nexus One “superphone” during a press event, confirming most of what was known on the Internet for weeks.
Although we will have a much more in depth article on the Nexus One later tonight, here is a video of the superphone running Flash video thanks to Adobe Flash 10.1 beta. iPhone owners need not apply.
