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HTC Hero - Full Flash, Skype over 3G, custom Android UI, multitouch.

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Re: HTC Hero - Full Flash, Skype over 3G, custom Android UI, multitouch.

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Post by mustpax »

calcnerd256 wrote: post #14
scott_s wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hoping that the industry and community will adopt better technologies is fine, but did you seriously think they wouldn't adopt the format that YouTube uses? Further, do you really fault them for it?

Bordering on off-topic, isn't this why YouTube needs to support more output formats?

It already does, but not overtly. The current iPhone YouTube app doesn't read FLV, YouTube re-encoded its whole video library to get on the iPhone.

Re: HTC Hero - Full Flash, Skype over 3G, custom Android UI, multitouch.

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scott_s wrote: post #13
old-gregg wrote: post #6

Flash support?! Ughh... I was hoping that widespread proliferation of numerous (and varying) mobile platforms will kill this junk and accelerate HTML/JS/CSS progress.

Hoping that the industry and community will adopt better technologies is fine, but did you seriously think they wouldn't adopt the format that YouTube uses? Further, do you really fault them for it?

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Re: HTC Hero - Full Flash, Skype over 3G, custom Android UI, multitouch.

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Post by abossy »

mustpax wrote: post #21
calcnerd256 wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Bordering on off-topic, isn't this why YouTube needs to support more output formats?

It already does, but not overtly. The current iPhone YouTube app doesn't read FLV, YouTube re-encoded its whole video library to get on the iPhone.

Are you sure about this? Wouldn't it be easier to write FLV support on the iPhone than to re-encode hundreds of millions of videos?

Re: HTC Hero - Full Flash, Skype over 3G, custom Android UI, multitouch.

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Post by sp332 »

GiraffeNecktie wrote: post #4

Why the little bend at the bottom? It doesn't seem very pocket friendly.

The images seem to be over-accentuating the bend. You can see from http://www.htc.com/uploadedImages/Common/Shared_Image/Galler... , if you tilt your head a bit, most of the "bend" is just making the phone thinner. The front only sticks out ~4mm from the rest of the phone.

Re: HTC Hero - Full Flash, Skype over 3G, custom Android UI, multitouch.

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Post by igorgue »

jcl wrote: post #17
Tichy wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Amusing - because I love my phone so much that I want to feel it all over my skin? ;-)

Well, it also helps with hand contour. And it makes it easy to identify the phone's orientation by touch. And it encourages you to put the phone in your pocket the right way around... If you read the G1 user manual (yeah, yeah, I know), there is a curious passage advising you to keep the back of the phone 1.5 cm from the body.

I had that problem with the Ipod touch, it gets really hot, so with the right orientation you can avoid that (the G1 gets hot too).

Re: HTC Hero - Full Flash, Skype over 3G, custom Android UI, multitouch.

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Post by boundlessdreamz »

abossy wrote: post #24
mustpax wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It already does, but not overtly. The current iPhone YouTube app doesn't read FLV, YouTube re-encoded its whole video library to get on the iPhone.

Are you sure about this? Wouldn't it be easier to write FLV support on the iPhone than to re-encode hundreds of millions of videos?

youtube didn't re-encode videos to get on iphone. It just so happened that youtube wanted to provide High quality videos in h.264 format and iPhone supports it

Re: HTC Hero - Full Flash, Skype over 3G, custom Android UI, multitouch.

#29

Post by scott_s »

abossy wrote: post #24
mustpax wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It already does, but not overtly. The current iPhone YouTube app doesn't read FLV, YouTube re-encoded its whole video library to get on the iPhone.

Are you sure about this? Wouldn't it be easier to write FLV support on the iPhone than to re-encode hundreds of millions of videos?

I think the problem there is Apple - they don't want Flash support on the iPhone. They haven't explicitly stated so, but I think they don't want it because it would give people the ability to develop full iPhone applications that don't go through their store and approval process.
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