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Flash comes to (jailbroken) iPhones

By | August 9, 2010, 12:33pm PDT

Summary: On Wednesday I published my list of six apps worth jailbreaking your iPhone for — and here’s another. Flash (capital “F”) is now available for iOS devices, but you’ll have to jailbreak first.

On Wednesday I published my list of seven apps worth jailbreaking your iPhone for, and here’s another. Flash (capital “F”) is now available for iOS devices, but you’ll have to jailbreak your device first.

The release comes a month after the release of Frash for iPad on July 8, 2010.

It’s called Frash and it allows jb’d iPhones to view Adobe Flash content. It was released today by Comex, the developer behind Spirit and the browser-based JailbreakMe tool released a week ago.

Once you have jailbroken your iOS device and installed Frash (RedmondPie.com has a simple step-by-step guide), you can view Adobe Flash in Mobile Safari. Not all Flash content will work though. Frash is in the early development stages (version 0.02), so only basic Flash animations will display, mainly advertisements.

Adobe should have released a jailbreak Flash app a long time ago.

Are you installing it?

Update: Redmond Pie has posted a video of an iPhone 4 with Frash to display the performance:

Tip: PCWorld

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Jason O'Grady is a journalist and author specializing in mobile technology. He has published six books on Apple and mobile gadgets and his PowerPage blog has been publishing for over 15 years.

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Jason D. O'Grady

Jason D. O'Grady developed an affinity for Apple computers after using the original Lisa, and this affinity turned into a bona-fide obsession when he got the original 128 KB Macintosh in 1984.

He started writing one of the first Web sites about Apple (O'Grady's PowerPage) in 1995 and is considered to be one of the fathers of blogging. He has been a frequent speaker at the Macworld Expo conference and a member of the conference faculty. He also co-founded the first dedicated PowerBook User Group (PPUG) in the United States.

After winning a major legal battle with Apple in 2006, he set the precedent that independent journalists are entitled to the same protections under the First Amendment as members of the mainstream media.

O'Grady is the author of The Nexus One Pocket Guide, The Droid Pocket Guide, The Google Phone Pocket Guide, and The Garmin nuvi Pocket Guide (Peachpit Press), the author of Corporations That Changed the World: Apple Inc. (Greenwood Press), and a contributor to The Mac Bible (Peachpit Press). In addition, he has contributed to numerous Mac publications over the years, including MacWEEK, Macworld, and MacPower (Japan).

When he's not writing about Apple for ZDNet at The Apple Core, he enjoys spending time with his family in New Jersey.

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RE: Flash comes to (jailbroken) iPhones
dagaanbieding 19th Oct
What i'm wondering: if you jailbreak you iphone will that still work after you download a new update from apple? And also would they be able to detect this? dagaanbiedingen
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Will I install it?
People 9th Aug 2010
Probably not. I have not missed flash on the iPad whatsoever.

Question to people in the know. Why is flash so heavy? It totally abuses batteries.
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Pete "athynz" Athens 9th Aug 2010
I'm not likely to install it - I use a flash blocker on my browsers already so why install this? It's cool for those who want it, I'm jut not one of those who does.
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Flash is annoying enough on the full sized screen of a PC I can't imaging how bad the user experience a smart phone would be if Flash becomes pervasive. Flash may add visual appeal for some but it does so at the expense of usability.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtGCaKyd_co

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