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When the Samsung Galaxy Nexus launched last month there was much joy at the delicious new Ice Cream Sandwich OS, followed by howls of anguish as early adopters realised that the Adobe Flash plugin didn’t work on Android 4.0. Google promised that Flash support was on the way and Adobe has now released an ICS-compatible Flash plugin, just in time for the Galaxy Nexus’ US launch.

While this is welcome news for anyone hoping to run BBC iPlayer or embedded YouTube videos, we have to ask – is Flash still a vital service for Android or just a lazy crutch?

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Pottermore, J.K. Rowling’s assault on the big name eBook publishers, will be partnering with another relatively new – but still rather large – eBook supplier to get the Harry Potter series on the Android phones and tablets.

When you buy a Harry Potter book via the Pottermore site you will be able to choose from a variety of formats in which to download. One option will be to save the book to the cloud – using Google Books.

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Samsung Wave II owners who can’t wait to try the new version of the Bada OS will no longer have to – a build of the new & improved Bada 2.0 has been leaked and can be downloaded by the curious (and brave – it might brick your phone).

Check out the video clips below to see it in action.

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Uh-oh, looks like somebody’s got a bad case of the Manboobs. Er, we mean Mondays.

Yes, the iPhone autocorrect can be both a curse and a blessing. For every ‘teh’ that gets quietly swapped to ‘the’ there is an equal chance that a perfectly legitimate word will be auto-corrected into something obscene, amusing or horrifying.

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Pics leaked from a factory in China suggest that HTC may be about to release a new HTC Flyer tablet – this time with a 3D camera.

3D is everywhere at the moment, but are HTC wise to be stuffing it in to more devices or is it just a fad? Either way, it looks as though the next HTC Flyer will sport some 3D capabilities whether you need them or not.

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Amazon is to take on the likes of Steam by launching its own online games store in the UK. Amazon has been trialling a games download service in the US but  progress has been slow. A full store will be launching on this side of the pond some time in October.

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Panasonic continues to push out new cameras in its Lumix range and the new DMC-FZ48 looks like a cracker. Not only does it have optical zoom that would make a paparazzo jealous, it can capture video at 1080p too.

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Oh Nokia. Just when the N9 gave us hope that Nokia had turned over a new design leaf, some leaked photos of the Nokia N5 make us realise that it is business as usual over in Espoo.

The new phone is ugly as sin, leading us to suspect that Nokia might be doing this deliberately. Is it some kind of scam, like in The Producers?

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