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Ultimate Geek

#75055 12-Jan-2011 08:30

I'm looking for a relatively cheap android phone for testing some work stuff, and I need it to be capable of using flash for viewing video. I understand this was only added in the last few months, but I'm not sure what phones have the right versions of Android to be capable of this. Can anyone recommend a cheap Android phone capable of this?

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#426432 12-Jan-2011 10:17

Huawei U8150 will do it, or anything with an Android 2.2 upgrade. Nice to see Pricespy has an Android operating system version filter now.

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#426444 12-Jan-2011 10:45

I didn't think the U8150 could do flash, the processor isn't powerful enough or something.

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#426452 12-Jan-2011 11:13

The ideos doesn't run flash - flash requires an arm 7 or better processor.

Just because a device runs 2.2 doesn't mean it will run flash.

At the moment none of the budget devices support flash - the X5 being released by 2degrees soon will support flash however at the moment high end devices like the nexus and galaxy s are your best bet for flash support

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#426532 12-Jan-2011 14:35

Ideos does flash in the browser according to the specs/reviews

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#426536 12-Jan-2011 14:41

keewee01: Ideos does flash in the browser according to the specs/reviews

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Found an interesting note on a website about how Huawei have quietly dropped mention of flash from their website and literature after an earlier statement of "Flash Lite Available November 2010"...

So it seems that the IDEOS/Huawei U8150 doesn't currently support flash. Sorry.

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#426569 12-Jan-2011 16:05

Minimum of arm7 cpu and andoird 2.2, nothing in the budget range until Huawei X5.

Unless you consider $700ish budget (still half the price of an iphone 4 outright I guess!)?

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#426584 12-Jan-2011 17:08

Samsung 580 ? no ?

Oh btw, download skyfire for free (i think) from android market , it'll load all the flash from any website.
The diff is that it doesn't do it through your phone (thin client) , it goes through their server.

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#426591 12-Jan-2011 17:33

Thanks for the info guys. I was hoping one of the budget devices might do the job, but it sounds like I'd only get what I want with one of the higher end devices. I might just hold off for now.

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#426592 12-Jan-2011 17:35

moto defy run flash lite, will get full flash when 2.2 update rolls out in q2

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#426593 12-Jan-2011 17:39

580 also doesn't do flash, it's running 2.1 for a start and doesn't have an arm7 it runs a s5p6422 which is arm v6.

I hear mixed reportd on skyfire but you can always give it a go

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#426594 12-Jan-2011 17:39

miamiheatfan: Samsung 580 ? no ?

Oh btw, download skyfire for free (i think) from android market , it'll load all the flash from any website.
The diff is that it doesn't do it through your phone (thin client) , it goes through their server.?

More of a proxy actually.

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#426693 13-Jan-2011 00:39

sub: I'm looking for a relatively cheap android phone for testing some work stuff, and I need it to be capable of using flash for viewing video. I understand this was only added in the last few months, but I'm not sure what phones have the right versions of Android to be capable of this. Can anyone recommend a cheap Android phone capable of this?

An Acer Liquid running Android v2.2 will do Flash.

You may be able to get one second hand.....and Android v2.2 custom ROMs have been available for it for a long time now.....and new ones may even come with it. Info on that can be found at modaco.com in the Acer Liquid forum. The Liquid Community ROM (LCR) was the best one I used.

PB Tech were selling them new for about $730-ish. That's a good price for a big-screen phone with an ARM7 / Snapdragon processor.

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#426702 13-Jan-2011 06:04

miamiheatfan:
Oh btw, download skyfire for free (i think) from android market , it'll load all the flash from any website.
The diff is that it doesn't do it through your phone (thin client) , it goes through their server.?

Thanks, but thats not a viable solution for us. We need to ensure our software is working well on Android in the real Flash.

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#426708 13-Jan-2011 07:28

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miamiheatfan:
Oh btw, download skyfire for free (i think) from android market , it'll load all the flash from any website.
The diff is that it doesn't do it through your phone (thin client) , it goes through their server.?
Thanks, but thats not a viable solution for us. We need to ensure our software is working well on Android in the real Flash.

IMHO I wouldn't target flash software to a device set that has limited flash penetration

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#426723 13-Jan-2011 08:28

We're not targeting flash or the Android specifically, but we did have a flash app already for one of our platforms, and when Android added flash support recently, users started commenting that it was working fine on their Android devices (which was a surprise to us), but that had a couple of minor issues with some of the HTML pages that went with it. So....this is really just an exercise to clean up a couple of existing things that havnt been working well on the Android devices.

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