Barnes & Noble may be positioning the NOOKcolor as an eBook reader, but it’s shaping up to be a pretty versatile Android tablet for $250. Earlier this week, we saw the first third party apps make their way onto a rooted NOOKcolor, and yesterday Barnes & Noble released the official software developer kit so that […]
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LG puts Android tablet plans on hold, waits for Gingerbread
Google has already said that it doesn’t consider Android 2.x to be an operating system suitable for tablets. While Samsung, Dell, Toshiba, and a number of other device makers seem to disagree, LG seems to be on the same page as Google. The company had been planning to launch a tablet using Android 2.2, but […]
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Google Android 2.2 shoehorned onto the Archos 5 internet tablet
The Archos 5 Internet Tablet is a handheld device with a 5 inch display, some pretty decent media player software, and oh yeah, the ability to surf the web and run Google Android apps. But it ships with Google Android 1.6, which is starting to feel a bit dated. So what’s a hacker to do? […]
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Google introduces Google TV, Android 2.2
On the second day of the Google I/O developers conference, Google unveiled two new major products. The first is Android 2.2 Froyo. The new version of Google’s mobile operating system using your phone as a WiFi hot spot, installing apps to the SD card, huge speed improvements for third party apps, and support for Adobe […]
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Google Android 2.2 to turn phones into mobile WiFi hotspots?
Google is expected to introduce the next version of its Android operating system for smartphones as soon as next week. Code-named Froyo, we’ve already heard some pretty cool things about Android 2.2. It will support Adobe Flash Player 10.1, and it could be more than 400% faster at some tasks. But now there’s another reason […]