Adobe denies Flash draining mobile battery life

1st March, 2010 by adina
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After the video preview of a Nexus One running Flash, Adobe has denied that this software cuts on the battery life. Various bloggers, including John Gruber from Daring Fireball, claim that the battery charge level has gone down from 50 percent to 25 percent in just 8 minutes (the length of the video). However, the preview has been edited; therefore, it’s quite unclear for how long the device has been used during filming.

In order to prove the battery claims false, Adobe has released a video which shows a 17-minute YouTube movie; during this clip, the battery doesn’t seem to exhaust. A battery charge chart suggested that the browser only accounted for 6 percent of the exhaust, during the video.

Adobe affirmed that the Flash Player 10.1 offers video playback for over three hours, on a full battery. For locally stored video clips on a Nexus One, Google shows seven hours of playback time, but without taking into consideration the browser and Wi-Fi or 3G connection, which are all necessary for the Flash content.


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