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Android has had flash 10 since June 2010
Honeycomb tablets are just waiting for the official 10.2 plugin (they can run 10.1 if you want...)
Edit: The playbook release date hasn't slipped yet? The UK date has always been summer...
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I got th first one in lunch day by just waking in during my lunch hour, no queues, camping are for die hard fans who like to chat to others.
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I'm not sure you'd have to camp just arrive early on the 25th at your local store.
Fantastic. I finish work early on Fridays so I will pop straight to the store and try to get one.
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Android has had flash 10 since June 2010
Honeycomb tablets are just waiting for the official 10.2 plugin (they can run 10.1 if you want...)
Edit: The playbook release date hasn't slipped yet? The UK date has always been summer...
That's where I was confused. Kept hearing about the 10.2 release and assumed it hadn't been released yet.
Took a while to launch either way didn't it?
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They don't do pre-orders on that many products. I think the last time they did it was for the iPhone 4 and the iPad 1.
Seeing as it's due out March 25th then I doubt they'll do it now.
I have both an iPad and a heavily hacked Advent Vega Tegra-2 tablet. Flash runs fine on the Vega and in fact, I've been very impressed with the performance of it. So I'm not sure where this "flash in crap on tablets" thing has come from.
Don't get me wrong, the iPad is waaaaaaaaaay superior as an experience to any Android tablet I've seen so far but I don't see any good technical reason why flash isn't there.
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New version of Skyfire incoming, while we're on Flash.
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you're right. i think it's mainly politics (in-fighting between apple and adobe) that's the cause, at least the current cause if not the original cause. it'll never happen though. too far along now.
Excellent! I hope they've improved content detection. (so you can choose exactly which vid you want converted)
Any news on the memory yet? (I guess we can wait for the March 11th iFixit teardown?
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Thinking about it, Android got flash in January 2010 with 2.1 (Flash lite) but it was very, very crappy and deserved all those derogatory comments
No, it's a proper browser plug-in that works really quite well now. Having access to all those desktop vod sites is great. (iPlayer, 4OD, ITV player, MSN video player etc.) Shame I've only got a 500mb data allowance now
Any news on the memory yet? (I guess we can wait for the March 11th iFixit teardown?
)That's where I was confused. Kept hearing about the 10.2 release and assumed it hadn't been released yet.
Took a while to launch either way didn't it?
Thinking about it, Android got flash in January 2010 with 2.1 (Flash lite) but it was very, very crappy and deserved all those derogatory comments
No, it's a proper browser plug-in that works really quite well now. Having access to all those desktop vod sites is great. (iPlayer, 4OD, ITV player, MSN video player etc.) Shame I've only got a 500mb data allowance now
CPU hog, and therefore decreased battery life.
It should at least be optional though, so if you need Flash quite a lot you can have it enabled and take the hit in battery life.
Or if you dont need Flash, you can have it disabled and no difference is made?
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I'd agree with that. Bundled in the OS, but "off" by default.
I really only miss it for LoveFilm. Hoping they roll the streaming in to the iOS app soon.
Depends how you use it, when Ipad first came out I thought the same. But my use has chnaged. Tablets for me are a media/web browser.with no flash I can;t stream videos from anywhere. Including LoveFilm and Blinkbox. As Films for me is one of the major reasons for a tablet it kind of makes it a bit silly (i'm staying in hotels a lot for work, so would cut the boredom). But I prefer apple for mobile devices, it just works and works well. Just get flash support and I would jump straight back to apple.
If amazon push lovefilm and make apps, then I think I would go with apple. But flash is what is needed.
This is so true. It irritates me when people makes excuses about Flash not being on the ipad.
"It's CPU intensive."
"It kills the battery."
"It's flaky"
blah blah.
Apple and Adobe could get it to work on an ipad. They just won't.
Any other reasoning is naive, and panders to Adobe/Apple/Steve Jobs' DECEIT on this subject.
The Ipad2 still won't support flash?
I was tempted to buy the Ipad at launch but knew Apple would bring out a new version soon and it's here faster than I thought.
I've been debating if I should get an Advent Vega or Ipad2, yeah the Ipad2 has more features but I'm mainly going to be watching HD films & surfing the internet so not sure if it's worth spending almost £200 more to get the Ipad2.
Never owned anything from Apple either, so not sure what to do!
I do like the design and batterly life though, but for the same price of an Ipad2 you could just get a really good laptop which might suit me better for my needs.
I was tempted to buy the Ipad at launch but knew Apple would bring out a new version soon and it's here faster than I thought.
I've been debating if I should get an Advent Vega or Ipad2, yeah the Ipad2 has more features but I'm mainly going to be watching HD films & surfing the internet so not sure if it's worth spending almost £200 more to get the Ipad2.
Never owned anything from Apple either, so not sure what to do!
I do like the design and batterly life though, but for the same price of an Ipad2 you could just get a really good laptop which might suit me better for my needs.