Poor reflow on Reader for Android

On opening a new PDF in Adobe Reader on my Samsung Galaxy SII and setting the display to reflow some of the paragraphs in the document are broken up so they dispay as if there are lots of little paragraphs instead of one paragraph. When I open the same document in Adobe Reader on my laptops and set the document to relfow and colapse the window down smaller everything looks fine.
Reflowing a PDF on smaller devices is critical to my selling the idea of PDF for mobile. If they don't display properly on smaller devices then there is not much use in my selling the idea that PDF can easily be read on many devices without haveing to zoom in and scroll horizontally.
It seems like something happened with the reflow and now it is busted. I have screen captures to illustrate the problem if only I could upload them. If Adobe Reader for Android are listening (reading) please contact me for more info so we can get the problem fixed.
And by the way why is there no reflow option in Reader for iOS?

Hi Gaurav,
Thanks for the fast response. I know you're probably not deciding feature priorities, so please don't be offended by my following comments.
I have to say I'm somewhat confused by the lack of such an obvious feature. If I understand this correctly...
Let's say I'm reading "War and Peace" on my Android tablet using Reader X. It's a very long book...so I'm likely not to be able to read it in one sitting.
I want to keep my place in War and Peace and check out the latest copy of Playboy.
So you're telling me that I have to write down the page number on a piece of paper...transfer the file to a PC with a "proper" (ie. functional) copy of Reader...navigate to the page I was on in War and Peace...create a bookmark...transfer the file back to the Android tablet and next time I open it I can go right to where I was at!
I'm sure I'm not the first person to tell you this - but that's crazy :-) Without the ability to create bookmarks on the tablet the bookmark feature is useless.
This must be the easiest ever feature to implement. I'm quite astonished...really.
Again, thanks for the fast response...I know sometimes it must be frustrating to have to give "official company" answers like that :-)
Cheers,
Geoff

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