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Linpus retools Android 4.0 for x86 tablets, netbooks

Brad Linder — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:00:28 +0000

Linpus is rolling out a new version of its Android-based operating system designed to run on tablets, netbooks, and notebooks with x86 processors. It's based on Google Android 4.0, and the notebook version adds support for hardware that you wouldn't normally find on an Android tablet. [/caption] Linpus made a little bit of a name for itself a few years...

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Chrome to Mobile send web pages from a PC to phone or tablet

Brad Linder — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:13:21 +0000

Google has released a new tool that lets you send any web page you're reading on a PC with the Chrome web browser to a mobile device running the new Chrome browser for Android 4.0. It's called Chrome to Mobile Beta, and it has a few advantages over the older Chrome to Phone tool. Like Chrome to Phone, you can...

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HP releases TouchPad Android kernel source code

Brad Linder — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:04:22 +0000

HP never planned to release the HP TouchPad tablet to the public with Google Android. Instead, when the 9.7 inch tablet hit the market last summer it was running HP webOS 3.0 software. But a handful of customers purchased tablets that had Android installed instead. These devices appeared to be running builds of the operating system designed for internal testing....

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Chrome web browser comes to Android, app store, extensions behind

Brad Linder — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:56:51 +0000

Google has launched a public beta of the Google Chrome web browser for Android. It's available from the Android Market for phones and tablets running Android 4.0 and up. The new browser uses the same rendering engine as the desktop version of Chrome for Mac, Windows, and Linux -- and it has the same user interface, so it should be...

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Zenithink releases Android 4.0 for most of its tablets

Brad Linder — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:55:11 +0000

Chinese tablet maker Zenithink is making Google Android 4.0 available for most of the company's recent 7 and 10 inch tablets. That includes the Zenithink C71 which gained a bit of attention recently when developer Aaron Seigo announced that it would be the basis of the new Spark tablet with KDE Plasma Active Linux software. While the Spark will come...

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Overclock an HP TouchPad with Android and Bricked-Kernel

Brad Linder — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:39:26 +0000

The HP TouchPad tablet has a 1.2 Ghz Qualcomm Snapdragon dual core processor. But if that's not fast enough for you, it turns out the chip can easily support higher clock speeds. HP originally shipped the tablet with webOS software, and webOS hackers have built custom kernels that allow you to set the CPU speed as high as 1.7 GHz....

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New Kindle Fire Android 4.0 ROM adds custom lock screen, bug fixes

Brad Linder — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 22:37:44 +0000

A group of developers are continuing to work on improved versions of Google Android 4.0 for the Amazon Kindle Fire. Amazon's $199 tablet ships with a customized version of Android 2.3 Gingerbread, but by rooting the tablet and installing custom software it's possible to turn it into an (almost) full-fledged Android tablet running CyanogenMod 9, a custom version of Android based...

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CyanogenMod 9 Alpha 0.6 for the HP TouchPad now available

Brad Linder — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 18:29:34 +0000

CyanogenMod developer Dalingrin has released a minor update to CM9 for the HP TouchPad tablet. The latest software is still based on Google Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, but it includes a handful of bug fixes and a few new features. CyanogenMod 9 Alpha 0.6 offers some improvements for the touchscreen, an option to to hide the bottom toolbar in...

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Samsung Galaxy Note hits AT&T for $300 and up in February

Brad Linder — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:49:25 +0000

The Samsung Galaxy Note is a 5.3 inch Android devices which blurs the lines between phones and tablets. It has a 1280 x 800 pixel Super AMOLED display and a stylus for writing or drawing on the screen. But it can also make phone calls, connect to the internet over a wireless carrier network, and maybe even slide into your...

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CyanogenMod 9 Alpha 0.5 (bug fix) for the HP TouchPad

Brad Linder — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 03:03:06 +0000

There's a new build of CyanogenMod 9 available for the HP TouchPad. The latest version includes a handful of bug fixes and a few new features for Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich on HP's discontinued tablet. Update: There's another new build. You can install Alpha 0.6 the same way you installed Alpha 0.5 by following the steps below. This is...

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Android 2.2-powered wristwatch with a 2 inch screen

Brad Linder — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 15:00:57 +0000

While Android smartphones seem to be getting bigger and bigger displays all the time, a Chinese company has shrunk down the guts of an Android phone and placed them in a wristwatch with a 2 inch, 320 x 240 capacitive touch display. ARMDevices caught up with Shenzhen Phaeton Nice Electronics at CES earlier this month to talk about the device....

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How to install Android 4.0 on the HP TouchPad (CyanogenMod 9 Alpha)

Brad Linder — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:08:03 +0000

The first public build of Google Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich is now available for the HP TouchPad. The tablet originally shipped with HP's webOS software, but hackers have been installing Google Android on the TouchPad for months. Up until recently, only Android 2.3 Gingerbread was available for the tablet, but now the CyanogenMod team has released CyanogenMod 9 Alpha...

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Hacked Sony Reader shows just how fast E Ink displays can be

Brad Linder — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 16:16:19 +0000

The Sony PRS-T1 is designed to be an eBook reader and little more, but it's running Google Android under the hood. Late last year hackers figured out how to root the device and enable installation of third party Android apps. But for the most part those apps look awful on the PRS-T1, because the E Ink display has a slow...

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Dell Streak 7 Ice Cream Sandwich ROM now available for download

Lee — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 20:30:41 +0000

It's not an official release, but a freshly-baked Android 4.0 ROM has been made available for the Dell Streak 7 tablet. TabletROMs forum users Giveen and DJ_Steve have uploaded the fruits of their labor, and if you're one of the Dell faithful who picked up a Streak 7 before it was retired from their website back in December you can...

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Acer Iconia Tab A510 tablet: Tegra 3 and Android 4.0

Brad Linder — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 22:20:34 +0000

The Iconia Tab A700 isn't the only new tablet Acer is showing off at CES this week. The Acer Iconia Tab A510 is also making an appearance. The A510 features the same 1.3 GHz NVIDIA Tegra 3 quad-core processor and Android 4.0 operating system as the A700. The only difference is that this model has a 1280 x 800 pixel...

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