Have an old smartphone running Android 2.1 or earlier? First of all, wow. Second of all, you’re about to lose access to the Android Market (which is the precursor to the Google Play Store). Google has announced it’s ending support for the Android Market on devices running Android 2.1 Eclair or older, effective June 30th. […]
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Installing Google Play Store on the rooted Kindle Fire HD
The Amazon Kindle Fire HD  7 inch tablet comes with access to tens of thousands of apps from Amazon’s Appstore for Android. But there are more than 600,000 apps available in the Google Play Store for other Android phones or tablets. While Amazon’s tablet doesn’t come with access to the Play Store, it turns out you […]
Root BlueStacks Beta to install the Google Play Store on your PC
BlueStacks is a utility that lets you run a number of Android apps on a Windows PC. You don’t need to reboot your PC or exit Windows at all — Windows apps and Android apps can run side-by-side. Out of the box, BlueStacks allows you to copy applications from your phone to your PC or […]
Google Play is what you get when you cross the Android Market with Google Music
Google is rebranding all of its digital media services as Google Play. No longer are the Android Market, Google Music, and Google Books separate sites. Instead, there’s a one-stop-shop for buying digital goods from Google or streaming content over the internet:Â Google Play. You can still upload as many as 20,000 songs to Google Music… I […]
Root a NOOK Tablet with just an SD card
Barnes & Noble has been playing a bit of cat and mouse game with NOOK Tablet hackers. When the company released the 7 inch Android tablet in November, it didn’t take long for hackers to figure out how to sideload apps, root the tablet, and even install the Android Market. Then Barnes & Noble pushed […]
Now you can browse the Android Market on an Amazon Kindle Fire
The Amazon Kindle Fire ships with the Amazon Appstore for Android applications rather than the official Google Android Market. And up until recently you couldn’t even visit market.android.com in the Kindle web browser (or a third party web browser). Amazon would automatically redirect links to its own app store. On the one hand, if you […]
Install Android Market on BlackBerry PlayBook
Ok, you’ve installed the PlayBook OS 2 beta. You’ve rooted your PlayBook. Now it’s time to get the Android Market up and running on your PlayBook. Why? Because while it’s certainly cool that PlayBook OS 2 lets you run repackaged Android apps that have been converted to RIM’s .BAR format, it’s way cooler to just […]
Now you can install the Android Market on a (rooted) BlackBerry PlayBook
Now that the BlackBerry PlayBook has been rooted, developers are figuring out neat things you can do with root access. One of the first is to install the Android Market to make downloading and installing Android apps on the BlackBerry PlayBook easier. The PlayBook runs software based on QNX and can run native apps as […]
Custom ROM for the Arnova 8 G2 adds root access, Android Market
The Archos Arnova 8 G2 is a budget Android tablet with an 8 inch display, a 1 GHz processor, and Android 2.3 Gingerbread operating system. You can pick one up from Amazon for $180. But out of the box, the Arnova 8 G2 may not have all the features you’d want from an Android device. […]
Android Market website now recognizes HP TouchPad, NOOK Tablet, Kindle Fire
Google has rolled out a minor update to the Android Market website so that it now recognizes devices that didn’t originally ship with the Android Market. In other words, if you install the Android Market on an officially unsupported device such as the HP TouchPad, Barnes & Noble NOOK Tablet, or Amazon Kindle Fire, you […]