The BBC has launched an all-new, standalone app dedicated specifically to covering the London 2012 Olympics, in the form of the very clearly named BBC Olympics app. The app’s main boast is that it grants access to the corporation’s live Olympic video feeds on mobile, with all 24 of the streams found on the desktop sport site available through your phone.
Rather nicely, the BBC has enabled streaming through wi-fi and 3G connections, plus there’s all the additional content you’d expect from the media giant, like text commentaries, schedules, results, news stories with offline reading, article sharing and more.
The big downside here is the BBC’s continued use of Flash Player to render its video streams on Android, which means some of the newer Android devices, like the hot new Nexus 7 tablet, won’t be able to run it. Whoops.
The Panasonic Eluga marks the company’s return to the European mobile phone scene years after several years of absence, and it’s come back to us with a moderately high-spec Android model that features a rather stylish, slim case.
The HTC One V is HTC’s third entry in its high-profile new HTC One range, offering a smaller 3.7″ display running on a single-core 1GHz processor. It is is very much the “affordable” option in HTC’s newest Android series, but…
The HTC One S is the piggy in the middle of HTC’s 2012 line-up, offering a 4.3″ AMOLED display inside a very slim and stylish aluminium chassis. The end result is a phone that’s very, very slim and stylish.
HTC’s new quad-core monster, the 4.7″ flagship for 2012 that introduces the Tegra 3 processor to mobile phones, updates HTC’s range to Android 4.0 and brings us the supposedly streamlined version 4.0 of HTC’s Sense user interface.
Sony returns with an all-new mobile design for 2012, pairing a dual-core processor with a 720p display. It’s a lovely phone, but is it enough to end our Samsung and HTC obsession?
LG’s updated Prada phone comes with an absolutely crazy black & white theme, but is it just for fashionable suit wearers who want to make themselves look a bit more interesting?
MarkG
/ July 16, 2012“The big downside here is the BBC’s continued use of Flash Player to render its video streams on Android, which means some of the newer Android devices, like the hot new Nexus 7 tablet, won’t be able to run it. Whoops.”
That’s totally and utterly untrue.
The Nexus 7 and all Jellybean devices WILL run the latest flash player, and any apps that use the flash control will work just fine. 3rd Party browser like Opera Mobile, will also be unaffected, and continue to work with Flash. It’s ONLY the stock browser (and Chrome) that are affected.
From the end of August you won’t be able to download Flash from the Google Play store anymore, but anyone that already had it, it will continue to work fine.
Gary C
/ July 16, 2012Hmm. Galaxy Nexus owners who’ve installed 4.1 can’t install the app, and it looks like it’s refusing to work on tablets too, so there are already some odd compatibility holes.
Chris Miles
/ July 21, 2012No joy on Asus Transformer TF101 either, even with Flash player.