Adobe’s Flash Player, which was supposed to have been banished from the Google Play Store, is back up – but only for Android users in the UK. Adobe says the move to re-release the Flash Player app came about due to pressure from “strategic partners” in the UK.
In a news piece on the reinstatement of the app, the BBC says that the BBC itself was one of those strategic players, with the request no doubt made due to the way the Beeb’s iPlayer content is delivered solely through Flash on Android. Adobe said: “Flash Player continues to be available on Google Play for users in the UK for a short while due to requests from strategic partners.”
So there it is, back from the dead for a limited period only for us lucky UK consumers.
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?
Tafkawac
/ August 30, 2012Why can’t the Android BBC app use non flash streams? It could use the same streams as the iPad/ iPhone version surely?
Maybe it’s not as simple as that – relinking all those hyperlinks would take ages ;-)