Flash Game on Xoom Hand On (and a few notes about the iPad 2 vs Xoom benchmark)

[pixelslave]

Installed the leaked Flash Player on my Xoom:

Motorola Xoom Flash Player: Game Playing Hand On -- Clear HD

Played a few games on Kongregate and so far it works quite well. But Hulu still won't work. I tried to use the Dolphin Browser and set the user agent to Desktop, but it did not work neither.

On a separate note, why do people complain about the iPad 2 beating the Xoom in a benchmark? It's a completely DIFFERENT platform.

Look, the iPad 2 is running a minor update of the OS from the previous version. The Xoom, however, is running a major revision of Android. It's going to take some times for it to be optimized. That doesn't make Honeycomb suck.

Android is more than just specs. It represents a different view of how mobile computing should work. Personally, I will NEVER buy into the iOS hype, no matter what. It has nothing to do with whether an iDevice is better or not. It's a philosophical thing. I just hate how Apple positions itself, period. That's enough for me to choose an alternative. And, my alternative is Android. It's not arguable, because it's a personal preference -- it's just like how I being a Chinese descent, love being an American citizen, love living in the USA, and love the USA more than the PRC.

 

[ravizzle]

Installed the leaked Flash Player on my Xoom:

Motorola Xoom Flash Player: Game Playing Hand On -- Clear HD

Played a few games on Kongregate and so far it works quite well. But Hulu still won't work. I tried to use the Dolphin Browser and set the user agent to Desktop, but it did not work neither.

On a separate note, why do people complain about the iPad 2 beating the Xoom in a benchmark? It's a completely DIFFERENT platform.

Look, the iPad 2 is running a minor update of the OS from the previous version. The Xoom, however, is running a major revision of Android. It's going to take some times for it to be optimized. That doesn't make Honeycomb suck.

Android is more than just specs. It represents a different view of how mobile computing should work. Personally, I will NEVER buy into the iOS hype, no matter what. It has nothing to do with whether an iDevice is better or not. It's a philosophical thing. I just hate how Apple positions itself, period. That's enough for me to choose an alternative. And, my alternative is Android. It's not arguable, because it's a personal preference -- it's just like how I being a Chinese descent, love being an American citizen, love living in the USA, and love the USA more than the PRC.

hulu wont work because the flash player that is installed identifies it as an android version of flash player. There is a hex edited version of flash that makes it think that it is a computer and allows hulu. It is on XDA, not sure if it works as havent tested it myself on the xoom (waiting for wifi version b4 i get a xoom) but i have been using a similarly hacked version on my samsung epic and hulu works for me.