Remember that $100 tablet with a MIPS processor and Google Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich? It looks like the retail price is going to be closer to $120 in the US, but that still makes this Android 4.0 tablet cheaper than most devices running Android 2.3 and earlier. PandaWill and Merimobiles are both taking pre-orders […]
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NOOK Color hackers working on Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich
The Amazon Kindle Fire isn’t the only $200 tablet that’s already running an early version of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. A team of developers has started porting ICS to run on the Barnes & Noble NOOK Color. Barnes & Noble released the NOOK Color last year, and recently dropped the price to $199 to […]
Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich coming to the Kindle Fire (unofficially)
Sure, installing CyanogenMod 7 on an Amazon Kindle Fire is cool and all. But xda-developers forum member x1011999 decided to skip Android 2.3 Gingerbread and port Google Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich to run on Amazon’s $199 tablet. He’s already got Android 4.0 booting on the tablet. Touch input works, as does hardware graphics acceleration. […]
Android 4.0 demoed on the Transformer Prime, unofficially ported to original Transformer
The Asus Eee Pad Transformer will ship with Google Android 3.2 while Asus works on porting Android 4.0 to run on the tablet. But the folks at NVIDIA have already had a chance to check out the new 10 inch tablet with an early build of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich — and they’ve posted […]
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 […]