Ok someone finally figured this out but not for all mobile devices. SkyFire has created a browser that allows certain mobile devices to play Flash Files. The only downside is that they have to be files that are played without any interactivity required. I think it still has some Kinks but they are well on their way to helping the thousands of us that have lots of great Flash content that can to play on our mobile device without having to download the file to the device.
In fact if you think about it, organizations and publishers that are worried about DRM (Digital Rights Management)should be singing their praises --- no worries about someone downloading content and jeopardizing their copyrights.
I did try this with a YouTube link and it worked great but then I had two other clips on our blog and it didn't work quite too well but the last test I ran was on a standard MP3 audio podcast file that is launched using a Flash tool bar. It worked great and for a long formatted podcasts this is a great way to play longer audio files without downloading them and eating up memory on the card.
It doesn't work with an iPhone, Blackberry and some older WM devices but there are lot of devices that it does support. Go to their site for more info or you can download the browser directly to your devices to launch the browser.
Monday, July 6, 2009
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