Canonical has released tools for installing a developer preview version of Ubuntu 12.10 Touch on the latest Google Nexus phones and tablet. If you have a Samsung Galaxy Nexus or Google Nexus 4 smartphone, or a Nexus 7 or Nexus 10 tablet, you can download and install a touch-friendly version of Ubuntu on your device. […]
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Ainol Novo 7 Venus looks like a Nexus 7, runs slower, costs $140
Chinese tablet makers Ainol Novo 7 Venus looks familiar — because it looks a lot like the $199 Google Nexus 7 tablet. And on paper, Ainol’s new $140 tablet looks like a pretty good low-cost alternative. But you also kind of get what you pay for. The Ainol Novo 7 Venus features a 7 inch, […]
$40 Asus Nexus 7 dock slated to ship in January
Half a year after Google started selling the Nexus 7 tablet, an official dock is about to hit the streets. B&H started taking pre-orders last month, and now The Verge reports the tablet should ship by the end of January. The $40 dock is made by Asus, the same company that manufactures the Nexus 7 for […]
Open webOS ported to the Nexus 7, runs nicely (Video)
It’s been a year and a half since HP stopped selling phones and tablets running the webOS operating system. But since then HP has transitioned webOS into an open source operating system and we’ve seen early builds ported to existing devices such as the Samsung Galaxy Nexus smartphone and Asus Transformer Pad tablet. Now the […]
Bodhi brings a tablet-friendly Linux OS to the Nexus 7
Ubuntu isn’t the only Linux-based operating system that can run on the Google Nexus 7 tablet. Bodhi Linux developer Jeff Hoogland has piggybacked on Canonica’s work with Ubuntu to offer a tool that lets you install Bodhi on the $199 tablet. Bodhi Linux uses the light-weight Enlightennment Desktop which, among other things, offers a touchscreen […]
Asus Nexus 7 dock coming this month for $40
After making a brief appearance in Japan, it looks like an official Nexus 7 dock is on the way to the US. B&H is now taking pre-orders for an Asus Nexus 7 dock for $39.99. It’s expected to ship around December 30th, 2012Â mid-January. The dock isn’t the most exciting accessory you’ve ever seen. Basically it […]
Nexus 7 modified to work with Palm TouchStone inductive charger
Google’s new Nexus 4 supports wireless charging — but what about the Nexus 7 tablet that came out earlier this year? Out of the box the only way to charge the tablet is the old-fashioned way: plug in a cable. But that’s boring. Rod Whitby from the webOS Internals team decided to crack open the […]
Google and Asus now selling nearly a million Nexus 7 tablets per month
The Google Nexus 7 is one of the best tablets available for under $200. According to new figures revealed by Asus, it may also be one of the best selling. Speaking during an Asus quarterly earnings call, the company’s chief financial officer said close to a million units were sold in the latest month. The […]
Ubuntu Linux coming to tablets… starting with the Google Nexus 7
The Nexus 7 tablet may be Google’s flagship Android tablet. But it has a bootloader that can be unlocked, a powerful 1.2 GHz NVIDIA Tegra 3 quad-core processor, and 1GB of RAM. In other words, it should be perfectly capable of running other operating systems. So it’s not surprising that the folks at Canonical seem […]
Google accidentally ships a 32GB Nexus 7 to Japan (so apparently they do exist)
Google and Asus haven’t confirmed the existence of a 32GB Nexus 7 tablet yet. But it’s been showing up in retail inventory systems for the last few days, and now it looks like a customer in Japan who ordered a 16GB tablet received a 32GB Google Nexus 7 instead… presumably by accident. @oppese has posted […]