OnLive Desktop Plus Brings Adobe Flash, Reader and Internet Explorer to Your iPad
Few weeks ago, OnLive had released their iPad app in the App Store called OnLive Desktop that allowed users to access Microsoft Office applications such as Word, Excel and PowerPoint running remotely on a server.
OnLive has now launched a new service - OnLive Desktop Plus, which gives priority access to OnLive Desktop Standard (which is available for free) and includes support for Acrobat reader and cloud-accelerated web browsing with Adobe Flash (via what appears to be Internet Explorer running in the background) for $4.99 per month.
Available today at desktop.onlive.com, the OnLive Desktop Plus service delivers priority access to all the standard features of OnLive Desktop, plus gigabit-speed* accelerated browsing with full Adobe Flash. That’s not simply a fast browser, it’s faster than any consumer browsing experience we know of.
For you that means—whether you’re on Wi-Fi or 4G (Android LTE tablets coming soon!)—you can expect even the most elaborate Flash websites to load in seconds, even if it would have taken your home computer minutes to load the same page. Animation, video and sound come through impeccably and instantly. And, large cloud storage files and Web email attachments—even 50 MB PowerPoint presentations—to upload or download in less than a second.
Check out hands-on demo of OnLive Desktop Plus:
As MacRumors points out, since it is a cloud based solution, there is some lag in responding to touch input, which makes it difficult to play interactive Flash-based games, but Flash-based video works quite well.
OnLive also plans to launch a OnLive Desktop Pro service plan, which will offer 50GB of storageand ability to customize with additional PC applications.
OnLive Desktop service is currently available only in the U.S., OnLive hopes to bring it to other countries soon.
You can download OnLive Desktop for free from the App Store using this link and signup for the service at www.onlive.com/desktop.
[via OnLive'g blog]
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