Opera Mobile 8.6 support Flash? which Flash Player and PocketPC

Posted on July 7, 2006 | 5 comments

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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?
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在7月4日Opera 发布了在Sharp W-ZERO3 的Windows Mobile 5.0机器上,Opera Mobile 8.6 为推荐浏览器。有一件信息真有意思:

“Opera Mobile 8.6 Pocket PC是第一个能用Flashçš„Opera Mobile版本”

现在我有一个Treo 700w, 也对Pocket PC 利用Flash Player 我很有兴趣,特别对Windows Mobile 5 的可能性。所以,为了利用Flash,我下载 Opera Mobile 8.6。
糟糕我办不了。这儿就有一些计算机试验案卷, 一个就是发表到 Flash Player 3 和另外就是到 Flash Player 7。这页应该给看一个简单小红盒从左边掉到右边角在一个 240×240 Flash 案卷。

http://renaun.com/resources/code/OTest3.html

http://renaun.com/resources/code/OTest7.html

在我已经有Pocket PC Flash Player 7 安装的Treo 700w Windows Mobile 5 Internet Explorer 浏览器这些试验有成功, 但是Opera Mobile 8.6却没有效果。大概一个月前试验了Pocket PC 的FLash Player 7。用FLV没问题, 但是因为我Treo 700w 的RAM不多,Flex应用有问题。我的工友最近买了一个T-Mobile SDA Music Windows手机。这手机已经安装了Windows Mobile 5 (smartphone版本)。他安装了Pocket PC的Flash Player 7,但是也没有用。我想Windows Mobile 5 Smart Phone的操作系统跟Windows Mobile 5的操作系统差得多。我发现一个公司叫Refresh Media。他们说到SDA有Flash Lite 1.1或与Flash Lite 1.1 适宜的。回到Opera。Opera Mobile 8.6 浏览器真有Flash?观众有没有看到的?用哪个版本?
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  • http://raz-l.com Raz-L

    no opera cannot read flash, cause the plugin is only in ActiveX, that’s sad.

  • joseph

    how were you able to get flv to play? I can’t find the exe for it, and I try to associate FLV and SWF with internet explorer and it doesn’t seem to want to work. I have a 700w too.

  • http://www.renaun.com Renaun Erickson

    You need to install the PocketPC 7 Flash Player from adobe.com. Then you need to make a video player in Flash (in version 7) that plays a FLV off a server. Then point your IE browser to the url of the flash video player.

  • http://isnm.de/~takrouri/ Bashar AlTakrouri

    It is really sad to look at product like opera mobile with all the web 2.0 functionalities and with AJAX support but it is not able to play flash or even audio.

    I did some testing with opera mobile 8.6 but unfortuantly niether sound nor flash has been played by this browser. I was looking for add-ons to go around this but i could not find any.

  • Mitsu

    I just tried YouTube on the latest Opera Mobile 8.6 beta and the flash video player actually worked. It was sort of jumpy but it worked.

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