Adobe. Nokia. Opera. (Listed alphabetically.) Which of these companies is to blame for the Nokia N800 Internet Tablet’s woeful Flash situation?
Does Adobe disdain us Internet Tablet users? Is it dragging its feet in supplying the most current software for this revolutionary device?
Is Opera unable to offer a small-enough, powerful framework? Or is there a licensing (read: money) issue?
Is Nokia pushing Adobe and/or Opera hard enough? Does Nokia need to swallow hard and pay stiffer fees to get the current capabilities?
Somewhere in here is some intransigence or ignorance that needs to be overcome.
What can we IT users do to get Flash all the way? And who is it we need to pester?
Because this is just not acceptable.
— Roger Sperberg
Flash Player 9 for Linux was just released. Does this mean that we can expect Flash 9 on Maemo soon? Flash 9 on the Internet Tablet OS would be a significant improvement since it would mean faster browser video streaming. Right now, the N800 with Flash 7, only get about 1 to 2 frames per second when watching videos from popular video sites like YouTube and Google Video.
Stefan Constantinescu of Ring Nokia on a similar post got a reply from someone from Adobe saying:
Nokia has already licensed Adobe Flash Player for many of their other devices, mostly with the mobile Flash Lite profile. Folks I work with already want to provide these capabilities anywhere, any device… if you also let Nokia know what you’d like on the device then that’d help us push from both ends, thanks.
jd/adobe
From talking with Nokia at CES, they did mention that they intend to improve on the video streaming feature of the N800 in the future. Maybe this is a good time to tell them that we all want it sooner. 
Thanks for the info Stefan.
