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HP releases TouchPad Android kernel source code

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….

February 7th, 2012, 7:04 pm by Brad Linder | 3 Comments

Google Android 4.0 source code now available

Google has released the source code for Google Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. The operating system is designed to run on phones and tablets, and this is the first time Google has released the source code for a tablet-friendly version of the operating system. The company never felt that Android 3.x Honeycomb was ready to run on smartphones, so Google…

November 14th, 2011, 5:58 pm by Brad Linder | 4 Comments

HTC offers up source code for the HTC Flyer tablet

HTC has released the kernel source code for a number of Android devices including several of the company’s most recent smartphones and the HTC Flyer 7 inch Android tablet. The Google Android operating system is based on an open source Linux kernel, but not every bit of software that runs on top of that kernel is open source. So this…

July 19th, 2011, 8:10 am by Brad Linder | No Comments »

Asus Eee Pad Transformer source code now available

Asus has released the kernel source code for the Eee Pad Transformer Android tablet. On the one hand, that’s not too surprising, since the tablet uses open source technology that’s licensed using the GNU General Public License which requires anyone distributing GPL licensed software to make the relevant source code available. What is a little surprising is that Asus is…

April 7th, 2011, 5:04 pm by Brad Linder | 4 Comments

List of Android tablets that make source code available

Google’s Android operating is based on the Linux kernel, which means that it’s bound by the GPL (General Public License) that requires anyone distributing devices using Android to make the Kernel source code available. A number of major Android tablet makers including Archos, Barnes & Noble, Dell, Samsung, and Velocity Cruz have done that — but many others have not….

January 1st, 2011, 7:22 am by Brad Linder | 4 Comments

Dell Streak Android tablet source code now available

Dell has released the source code for its Streak and Aero devices. The Streak is a 5 inch Android tablet or smartphone, depending on how you look at it, while the Aero is pretty inarguably a phone. Google Android is built on open source software and uses a version of the Linux kernel at its core. While Google keeps some…

September 9th, 2010, 4:58 pm by Brad Linder | 1 Comment

Asus Eee PC 1008HA Linux source code now available

The Asus Eee PC 1008HA is a thin and light netbook that weighs just 2.4 pounds and measures just an inc thick. It was the first Asus netbook to be feature the new “Seashell” style design. And it’s currently only available with Windows XP, even though Asus was a pioneer in putting Linux on netbooks. But this weekend Asus did…

October 12th, 2009, 10:19 am by Brad Linder | 32 Comments