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Flash 10.1 on Nexus One with Android 2.1

Any user of a current smart phone can tell you that one big gap in the mobile internet experiences on said devices is the lack of Flash support.  For years now, Adobe has been stating that they are working on a mobile Flash version to help fill that gap, and even a few companies have taken the initiative of including Flash Lite in their phones, such as the HTC Hero with Sense UI.  Flash Lite was a step in the correct direction, but doesn’t quite make that leap required to bridge the gap.  However, recently Adobe has been demonstrating and touting the beta version of Flash 10.1.  Adobe has stated they will release 10.1 for Android, Windows and RIM smart phones already and are working to do so before the end of the first half of 2010. 

The recently announced HTC Desire, which has yet to officially begins sales, has already had it’s pre-release software (ROM) ported onto the Nexus One and it includes the beta of Flash 10.1.  As such, tinkerers who have loaded up the Desire ROM onto their Nexus One have been able to take it for a test drive.  The results have been promising so far, depending on how you look at it.  Interestingly, one of the first demos of Flash 10.1 on the Nexus One comes from Taimur over at Remond Pie, who runs Farmville, a popular farming game available on Facebook, on a Nexus One

Video: Demo

Reference: http://www.thesearethedroids.com/2010/02/25/flash-10-1-on-nexus-one-with-android-2-1/

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Google Explains Nexus One ERF Price Cut to the FCC

Google told the Federal Communications Commission it reduced a fee charged to buyers of its Nexus One smartphone that canceled their service contract early to clear up concerns and confusion in the market. Google cut the Equipment Recovery Fee, designed to help Google recoup money it owed to T-Mobile in the event of any contract that was terminated within 120 days, to $150 from $350 Feb. 4. Google also said it canceled plans to show software developers its Nexus One in Beijing, owing to the current discord between Google and China over a hack on the search engine's servers.

That fee stood in addition to the $200 Early Termination Fee they would pay to T-Mobile for canceling their contracts early. In essence, Nexus One users who nixed their Nexus One contracts within four months would pay $550, close to the $579 Google charges for an unlocked Nexus One sans wireless contract.

Users complained; the FCC listened. The FCC Jan. 26 sent letters to AT&T, Google, Sprint and T-Mobile asking how ETFs are charged and if consumers are adequately informed of the ETFs. The FCC also wrote in letters to Google and T-Mobile:

"The combination of ETFs from Google and T-Mobile for the Nexus One is also unique among the four major national carriers. Consumers have been surprised by this policy and by its financial impact. Please let us know your rationale(s) for these combined fees, and whether you have coordinated or will coordinate on these fees and on the disclosure of their combined effect."

Google Feb. 4 slashed its ERF to $150. The search engine and wireless carriers Verizon Wireless, T-Mobile, and Sprint explained their ETF practices in letters to the FCC Feb. 23.

Google explained that as part of its contract with T-Mobile, T-Mobile pays Google a commission for each new T-Mobile subscriber and each existing T-Mobile subscriber that upgrades her or his service plan through the Web store. This enables Google to charge customers $179 for a Nexus One instead of the $579 fee for an unlocked, unsubsidized device.

When a subscriber cancels her or his service agreement with T-Mobile within 120 days, T-Mobile seeks full repayment of the commission from Google, wrote Richard Whitt, Google's Washington telecom and media counsel, in the letter to the FCC.

The ERF, he wrote, helps recover monetary amounts for which Google is liable to a mobile operator in the event of an early cancellation of the service plan by that mobile operator's customer.

Reference :http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Mobile-and-Wireless/Google-Explains-Nexus-One-ERF-Price-Cut-to-The-FCC-874375/

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