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Adobe Ships Flash Player 10.2 For Android 3.x

Posted by timothy on from the catching-up-with-the-jobses dept.

MojoKid writes "Adobe last night announced the release of Flash Player 10.2 for Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) tablets and it is available for download in the Android Market. Eventually, this could prove to be a big deal, but it looks as though a Honeycomb update is needed to take full advantage of the Flash Player 10.2's new features. It's not certain if it was intentional or not, but Adobe's statement points to an updated Honeycomb release, Android 3.1. According to reports, the new Android build is coming out soon for currently shipping Honeycomb tablets like the Xoom and Eee Pad Transformer."

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  1. Uninstalled flash. Less problems and faster we by shovas · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I uninstalled Flash 10 on my android a few days back. I can't remember what I used it for and it just ended up slowing down the whole browsing experience. Mobile sites these days know they can't use flash so most sites I visit just don't have it. It's great. And the ones that do end up going faster.

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  2. The problem with people by Flipao · · Score: 3, Insightful

    They can't see beyond what's in front of them. Adobe are not just betting on the Flash player running old stuff that was made with mouse and keyboard in mind but also looking to it as a future development platform for touch based devices.

    I'm not saying it is a good idea, but making fun of it because you can't play games that require a keyboard is missing the point entirely.

  3. Sympathetic towards Apple though... by v(*_*)vvvv · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Flash is the only thing that still manages to crash Chrome and my computer. I am not a big fan of Apple, but they did do us web devs a huge favor.