Here’s how Flash will look on the Nexus One (video)

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010 at 12:04 am

nexus flash Add another reason to the list of why iPhone users in particular may want to consider switching to the Nexus One, the new Android phone built by HTC and sold directly by Google: Like other Android phones, and unlike the iPhone, Nexus One owners should eventually be able to view Flash content in the phone’s browser.

Flash is Adobe’s platform for web video and other media — Adobe says Flash powers 75 percent of web video and 70 percent of online games. Last fall, Adobe announced that Flash would be coming to pretty much every smartphone except the iPhone. While Flash developers will be able to export their content as an iPhone app, most of the web’s Flash content won’t show up on the iPhone.

And now Adobe’s Adrian Ludwig has posted a video demo of Flash in the Nexus One’s web browser. It’s always risky to judge without playing with this stuff in-person, but I was impressed with how fast it all worked, even when playing a browser-based action game.

To be clear, Flash isn’t available yet on the Nexus One. Adobe has said it plans to make Flash available on Android early this year, and in the video Ludwig adds:

We’ve got a lot more work to do to get this ready. But if you go out there right now, you can buy a Nexus One, begin using it, and as Flash Player becomes available we’re going to push it to you over the web.