The Palm Pre is going to have full Flash support.

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This is because the operating system and pre-loaded software are all on the flash memory.

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"Cheesy, pre-scripted, commercialized performances" have spoiled the flash mob's original artistic spark, says Sean Savage, a designer for tablets and mobile devices often credited with coining the term "flash mob" on his blog 'cheesebikini?

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The device itself is a fairly standard affair, boasting a 4.3-inch WQVGA display, a 400MHz CPU, 64MB of RAM, an SD card slot, an FM transmitter, Bluetooth, and maps of the US and Canada pre-loaded on the unit's 2GB of internal flash memory -- an RDS-TMC traffic information receiver is also available as an optional accessory.

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Considering the Nokia N900 runs Flash 9 extremely well on a 600MHz ARM Cortex A8-based TI OMAP 3 processor (and the Palm Pre, which uses the same chip, will be able to run Flash 10.1 when webOS 1.4 comes out) we don't see any reason other than politics that the iPad can't do it on that fancy new 1GHz dual-core Cortex A9-based A4 chip.

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The flash memory in this combo offers a faster boot up and launch of pre-loaded applications.

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