Opera Mobile 8.6 support Flash? which Flash Player and PocketPC

July 7th, 2006 中文

On July 4th Opera release a press item about their new Opera Mobile 8.6 browser for Windows Mobile 5.0 will be the recommended browser for a new device, called Sharp W-ZERO3[es].

There is a bit of information that sparked my attention:

“Opera Mobile 8.6 for PPC is also the first Opera Mobile version to support Flash.”

Now I have a Treo 700w and am quite interested in developments of the Flash Player for Pocket PCs and in particular Windows Mobile 5. So I went ahead and downloaded Opera Mobile 8.6 and tried to see some Flash.

Well the bad news is that I couldn’t get it to work. Here are to quick test files, one is publish to Flash Player 3 and the other to Flash Player 7. The page should show a 240×240 flash file with a simple red box going from the left top corner to the bottom right corner.
http://renaun.com/resources/code/OTest3.html
http://renaun.com/resources/code/OTest7.html

These would not work in the Opera Mobile 8.6 but they did work on my Treo 700w Windows Mobile 5 Internet Explorer browser with Flash Player 7 for PocketPC installed. I tested the Flash Player 7 for PocketPC a month ago or so. I was able to get FLV to show fine, but had trouble with Flex applications mostly because of the shortage of RAM on the Treo 700w.

Then one of my co-workers bought a new T-Mobile SDA Music Windows Mobile phone. It has Windows Mobile 5 (smartphone edition) on it. I had him try and install the Flash Player 7 for PocketPC and it did not work. I guess the Windows Mobile 5 smartphone edition OS’s are quite different then the full blown Windows Mobile 5 version.

Then I went looking at Flash Lite content and found the company RefreshMedia they mention that the SDA has Flash Lite 1.1 or is compatible with it.

Ok so I am back on the Opera part, do they really have flash in the Opera Mobile 8.6 brower? Any one seen it work and what version it is running?

Entry Filed under: Computer Hardware, Flash