"Users of the Nokia N96 are to be among the first with the ability to run the BBC's iPlayer on their mobile phones.
From 1 October a purpose-built application will be available to download via the BBC website and will also be pre-loaded on some handsets."
Why just the N96? Does it have an extra level of DRM-laden codecs that the BBC simply have to have? Why not all their recent S60, QVGA-screened phones? Or is this a case of pushing out a press release to refer to Nokia's "Latest and best" to serve as advertising for them as well?
You can be sure that there's going to be an effort to reverse engineer this if it really is locked to one handset. I'm hoping they're not that stupid after the continuing demolition of the iPhone's walled garden's flimsy gate.
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I think the n96 has some hardware graphics acceleration which probably helps.
Yeah, but with it a slower processor. The N95 is faster, so could use pure grunt to match it.
Hm, flash version maybe?
I think the one on the N96 is Flash Lite 3 (which you may also have, but I think it's only in the most recent Firmware - 21.0.016 I think?).
It would be nice if there were some technical details.
Yeah, V21 firmware has Flash Lite 3 as well. From a mumbling somewhere else I gather it's all going to come through Real Player as well, so I'm having difficulty seeing how it can be justified to being for a single handset that's barely been released.
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