The Nokia 5800 has a Flash 3.1 Update

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by Clinton Jeff | on May 23rd, 2009 | 2 comments

Devin over at TheNokiaGuide.com found out that the Nokia 5800 got a Flash 3.1 update yesterday.

According to the Adobe Flash Lite site, version 3.1 brings the following changes:

Improved Web Browsing, 91% of top 500 internet sites.

Flash 9 (AS2 only) support

Local Connection / HTML Text / GetURL_target / CSS support / WMode

H.264 support / Improved video support (smoothing, seek)

Improved memory handling for images

MP3 Streaming support

Support for hardware acceleration — Flash Lite 3.1 supports OpenVG 1.1 to improve flash rendering performance on capable devices.

Linux Reference port

Devin also says that for YouTube.com, there’s much smoother video and quicker transition from standard to fullscreen view and that the Youtube seek bar has been improved and now works.

To grab the update, start up your “App Update” application on your 5800 and let it check for updates. For more screenshots and instructions, head on over to the post on TheNokiaGuide.com.

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