The Advent Vega was released to a storm of good reviews (including one from us here at Electricpig). It was a cheap, basic Android tablet that worked. Then it all went a bit wonky as the Flash plugin turned out not to be properly certified by Adobe, and so Advent had to yank the Vega’s Flash skills from then on – a pity, since it worked just fine in our testing.
There’s now a download available for people who ended up with an Advent Vega sans Flash, but there’s a new version of the Advent Vega with certified Flash pre-installed too. The difference? A fiver. That’s for the inconvenience of having to plug in and download an update when you get home. Fair or not? Read on…
As Star Wars tie-ins go, this is a geek’s dream come true: Currys and PC World have secured the services of R2D2 and C3PO to promote their stores. George Lucas’s mechanical cash cows turned shop dummies? You saw it here first. Read on, and see the TV ad in full.
