Smart Phone (Android) Help Please...

[tedebear]

Hi All,

Have I inadvertently got a free upgrade to a duff budgie? I got a Sony Xperia X10i (android) and loads of websites I try and go (to download games for my son like playnow) to require an upgrade to java and or Flash player but when I go to do these it says I can't have it on my platform....grrrrr

Help an old bird trying to learn new tricks please ;-) is this going to be impossible to get these things and get to the web site to download karting games prior to meltdown by a 5 year old in the morning when he discovers his mother has spectacularly failed!


Thanks
Justine

 

[Marc]

have you got the Android Market on that model? if so go there and search for Java and install that along with the Flash app, then games you download that need those two should work.

I'll check the Android forums now to check...

 

[Marc]

try here for getting .APK files to work:
downloading games of the internet - Android Forums

 

[Bozza]

iPhone.

Hope this helps.

 

[philsussex]

iPhone.

Unless you want to use it to make telephone calls

 

[gullshark]

OK, I'm an Android software developer so PM me if you want more help - but basically sounds like you are trying to play web based games and these are simply not going to perform at their best on a mobile phone.

You can download Flash from the Market if your device has updated to 2.2 (They ship with 2.1) but I would recommend going into the free games section on the Market and downloading stuff that is made for the device and will play a lot better

 

[tedebear]

iPhone.

Hope this helps.

I haven't the money to buy the four batteries I'd need to carry around to make it through a day....

 

[tedebear]

have you got the Android Market on that model? if so go there and search for Java and install that along with the Flash app, then games you download that need those two should work.

I'll check the Android forums now to check...

Just found android market and having a look - thanks Marc. There may be enough games on there to get me out of a rather large pickle for the morning and then I can work on it later...

 

[CheeseRolls]

iPhone.

Hope this helps.

Good call 500 quid to impress a 5 year old...or not

I think java is not supported in the version of Android on the Xperia X10, however there are plenty of cheap/free karting games in the Android market. This should be listed in the apps on the phone and is very simple to use. All new apps and updates are available here, so it is worth exploring.

 

[philsussex]

I haven't the money to buy the four batteries I'd need to carry around to make it through a day....

Another iPhone fail. The battery isn't removeable, at least not easily.

http://www.wonderhowto.com/how-to-remove-and-replace-your-iphone-4-battery-379731/

 

[Tony Meolas Loan Spell]

Its ok Bozza is an itwat. Anything with a f***ing i in front and "designed" by big jobs means out come the kleenex.

 

[Sussex Nomad]

I vote for more women on this site, soon as one starts a thread all the usual suspects get all squishy and moist and unbelievably helpful!! Must be an aphrodisiac... all is peaceful in NSC!

 

[tedebear]

OK, I'm an Android software developer so PM me if you want more help - but basically sounds like you are trying to play web based games and these are simply not going to perform at their best on a mobile phone.

You can download Flash from the Market if your device has updated to 2.2 (They ship with 2.1) but I would recommend going into the free games section on the Market and downloading stuff that is made for the device and will play a lot better

No but the sites I wanted to download the games from needed java and flash, but Android Market has come up trumps thankfully!

 

[Cian]

iPhone.

Hope this helps.

She's looking to play Java and Flash games, suggesting an iPhone is about as helpful as suggesting someone puts their remote in a kettle to make their TV work.

 

[tedebear]

I vote for more women on this site, soon as one starts a thread all the usual suspects get all squishy and moist and unbelievably helpful!! Must be an aphrodisiac... all is peaceful in NSC!

Just you wait til I say something supposedly stupid! No love lost there... but then again they all know I have no hair, no teeth and smoke 60 lambert and butler a day ;-)

 

[gullshark]

No but the sites I wanted to download the games from needed java and flash, but Android Market has come up trumps thankfully!

Yeah, alas that won't work

 

[tedebear]

Yeah, alas that won't work

Thanks Neil, I was getting to that conclusion I guess. The android market is pretty good anyhow! Quite liking the phone too! Especially for a free upgrade!

 

[Bozza]

Have you thought about an Apple phone thing?

 

[Ninja Elephant]

Have you thought about an Apple phone thing?

Maybe you should close the site until he gets an iphonepadtouch, give us a little link and we'll all be converted.

 

[tedebear]

Have you thought about an Apple phone thing?

No thanks I'm surrounded by them at work. Just wanted to be different.