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Flash Player won’t come to Jelly Bean

Categories: Android, Applications
By: , IntoMobile
Friday, June 29th, 2012 at 1:18 AM
Flash Player won't come to Jelly Bean

Adobe has officially announced that Jelly Bean won’t get the Flash support, though the software may continue to work.

Starting from August 15th, the company will use the configuration settings in Google Play to limit continued access to Flash Player updates to only those devices that have Flash Player already installed. Devices that do not fit this bill are increasingly likely to be incompatible with Flash Player and will no longer be able to install it from Google Play after the mentioned date.

Those who badly need Flash running on Android 4.0 are suggested to use Flash-certified devices and ensure that the Flash Player is either pre-installed by the manufacturer or installed from Google Play before August 15th. The list of certified devices is here and interestingly enough it includes Samsung Galaxy S III, while HTC One X is not listed.

Finally, it is recommended to uninstall Flash Player on devices which have been upgraded to Android 4.1.

This is pretty much the end for Flash on mobile…

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Dusan has been using smartphones since their introduction and is now following the latest trends in the industry. The "convergence" is what he's most excited about, and writing about it is the next logical thing to do. He thinks that using a smartphone is what everyone who cares about their time should do. In addition to his interests in mobile phones, Dusan also loves to experiment with the latest web and mobile 2.0 services. The idea of accessing and managing your information from any device no matter where you are simply amazes him. Whether it's an online to-do list, note taking service or a video sharing social network, he's there to try it out. He admits though, he's still searching for the ultimate web-based organizational tool, which "sings" perfectly with the mobile PIM application. Dusan used to run SymbianWatch.com which later became part of IntoMobile. He lives in Serbia, South-East Europe, from where he edits the site on a daily basis.

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     Couldn’t browser makers such as Dolphin and Firefox simply build Flash support right into the browsers, like SkyFire did on Windows Mobile?