eWeek: Adobe's mobile flash player 'slow but pretty'

According to eWeek, the new Flash player largely lives up to its promises. After three days of testing, the battery maintained its normal lifestyle. Though visiting many Flash-heavy pages causes the phone to run hot after a few minutes, eWeek reports it's no different than other devices that can view HTML5video. The picture quality of online video is "solid" - comparable to the iPod Touch, says eWeek.

On the downside, loading times were long. According to eWeek, many websites took a minute to boot up and movie trailers had especially long load times.

Adobe Flash Player 10.1 is designed to run on Android 2.2 and higher, with Adobe targeting platforms such as Windows Phone 7, WebOS, Symbian, and BlackBerry as well.

The new Flash player comes right after Apple levied several complaints against the company. Apple was originally set to support Flash in its mobile devices, like the iPad and iPhone, but said it was too buggy and energy inefficient to be used on portable platforms.