
Wi-Fi based use of Flash Player 10.1 in the native browser, with no other applications running, appears to use battery power consistent with that of non-Flash Player 10.1 content," the report says. "Flash Player 10.1, in our initial tests, has negligible battery drain impact. In the end, it found that Flash doesn't hit the battery that hard. Transitions ran tests with basic sites, a combination of games and immersive sites, purely games, and purely immersive sites. The plug-in was a slightly modified version provided by Adobe that gathered important test result information. Transitions, Inc, a technology consulting firm co-founded in 2003 by contributing editor Tim Siglin, tested two Motorola, two HTC, and two Samsung phones running the 10.1 plug-in. The upshot: while the Flash Player decreases battery life slightly, it boosts performances a great deal. ran a five-day study with six Android phones running Flash Player 10.1.

The Adobe Flash Player gets a bad rap for its performance on mobile devices, but is it warranted? To find out how much of a difference the Flash Player makes to Android devices' battery times, Transitions, Inc. Flash Player on Android: High Performance, Low Battery Drain
