The Cube U30GT2 is a 10 inch tablet with a Rockchip RK3188 quad-core processor and a 1920 x 1200 pixel display. It ships with Android 4.1 Jelly Bean and seems to function pretty well — although in my initial tests, I found the WiFi range wasn’t very good. Fortunately Cube has released a firmware update, […]
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CyanogenMod 10.1 (Android 4.2) for the HP TouchPad – coming soon
The HP TouchPad is the discontinued tablet that keeps on ticking. While the tablet originally shipped with the webOS operating system, hackers have been installing Android on it for ages  — and there hasn’t been an open source version of Android that couldn’t run on the TouchPad. Now Team codefireX developer Patrick Campanele is working […]
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Paranoid Android 3.0 RC1 is a configurable Android ROM for phones, tablets
Paranoid  Android is a custom ROM for Android devices which is probably best known for letting users adjust DPI settings on a per-app basis. In plain English, that means you can decide whether each app on your device should be displayed in phone or tablet mode. But with the launch of Paranoid Android 3.0, the […]
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Transform a $159 Kindle Fire 2 into a full Android tablet with CyanogenMod 10.1
You can add the Kindle Fire 2 to the long list of Amazon tablets that can now be used as full-fledged Android tablets thanks to a custom ROM. The Amazon Kindle Fire 2 is a $159 tablet which ships with Amazon’s custom version of Android 4.0 and tight integration with Amazon services and digital content […]
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AOKP brings customizable goodness to Android 4.2 with JB-MR1 Build 1
The developers behind the popular AOKP Android-based operating system have released their first build based on Android 4.2 Jelly Bean. It adds support for lock screen widgets, Google’s new notification and quick settings panel, and more. But like earlier versions of the AOKP, what really makes AOKP JB-MR1 Build 1 special is the level of […]
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CyanogenMod 10.1 nightlies brings custom Android 4.2 to more devices
The CyanogenMod team is now offering nightly builds of CM10.1 for more than a half dozen devices including most Google Nexus phones and tablets and a few additional devices such as the Samsung Galaxy line of phones and the Asus Transformer Pad. CyanogenMod 10.1 is a custom version of Google Android 4.2 which includes performance […]
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Install Android 4.2 on the original Amazon Kindle Fire
Amazon may not be selling first-generation Kindle Fire tablets anymore (or offering significant software updates for them), but that doesn’t mean you can’t teach an old tablet new tricks. Developer Hashcode has released a custom ROM for the Kindle Fire that lets you run Google Android 4.2 Jelly Bean on Amazon’s first tablet. In other […]
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Kindle Fire HD bootloader cracked, CyanogenMod 10 is on the way
Amazon’s latest Kindle Fire tablets are faster than last year’s model, have updated software, and the Kindle Fire HD models also feature higher-resolution displays than the original Kindle Fire. But this year’s models also have locked bootloaders, which makes it a bit trickier to replace Amazon’s software with a custom operating system than it was […]
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CyanogenMod 10 transforms the NOOK HD+ into a full-fledged Android tablet
The Barnes & Noble NOOK HD+ is a tablet with a 9 inch, 1920 x 1080 pixel display, a 1.5 GHz TI OMAP 4470 dual core CPU, and up to 16GB of storage. It runs a custom version of Google Android 4.0 designed to work with B&N’s book and app stores. And if that isn’t […]
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Kindle Fire HD 8.9 ROM ported to the Samsung Nexus S smartphone
Developers have been porting custom firmware such as CyanogenMod and AOKP to run on Amazon Kindle Fire tablets since the first models hit the streets last year. The latest Kindle tablets have been a tougher nut to crack thanks to their locked bootloaders. But one developer has decided to work in the other direction: By […]