The Motorola XOOM is one of the most powerful Android tablets on the market at the moment, but after playing around with one for a few days I keep finding myself wondering why I would carry a tablet around when I can perform many of the same tasks with an Android phone that fits in […]
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Motorola XOOM rooted, dissected, discounted in first 24 hours
The Motorola XOOM Android tablet went on sale in the US yesterday. Since it started to hit the shelves, hackers have figured out how to unlock the bootloader to install custom software, enable root access, buy the tablet for $200 off the list price, and oh yeah, take it apart to look at the insides. […]
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Rooted NOOKcolor turned into a $250 in-car entertainment system
The Barnes & Noble NOOKcolor eBook Reader continues to prove popular with hackers looking for cheap Android tablets. Out of the box the NOOKcolor runs Android 2.1 with a custom user interface designed for purchasing and reading books and magazines. But with a little tweaking you can enable support for all sorts of other Android […]
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Notion Ink torn apart by the FCC, rooted by users, receives unofficial Market access
The Notion Ink Adam tablet has been shipping for a couple of days and users have been busy testing the limits of this 10 inch Android tablet with an NVIDIA Tegra processor, custom Android software stack, and optional Pixel Qi transflective display. Among other things, we’ve seen users: Root the tablet and create a custom […]
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Barnes & Noble auto-resetting some rooted NOOKcolor devices
The Barnes & Noble NOOKcolor is a $250 color eBook reader which also happens to make a pretty decent 7 inch Android tablet if you root the system to open it up to third party apps. There’s just one problem: Barnes & Noble doesn’t officially support rooted devices, and some users are reporting that they’ve […]
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Automated root installer for the NOOKcolor now available
People have been rooting the NOOKcolor since shortly after Barnes & Noble launched the Android powered 7 inch color eBook reader. But up until recently you had to know your way around a command line to get things done. Now a member of the xda-developers community has released a tool which automates the process. It’s […]
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How to install Android Market on the NOOKcolor
The NOOKcolor is a 7 inch eBook Reader that ships with a highly customized version of Google Android 2.1 preloaded. Out of the box, it only runs a handful of apps including Barnes & Noble’s eBook software and a web browser. But we’ve seen hackers working their hardest to turn this $250 device into a […]
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NOOKcolor hacked to run Android 2.2.1
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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Barnes & Noble NOOKcolor rooted
The Barnes & Noble NOOKcolor is a 7 inch eBook reader with a 1024 x 600 pixel LCD color display. It runs Google Android and sells for $249, making it a relatively affordable Android tablet. The only problem (for people wanting to use it as an all-purpose tablet) is that out of the box it […]
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Time to root your T-Mobile phone, $14.99 tethering fee kicks in this weekend
As expected, T-Mobile is about to start charging $14.99 per month for the ability to tether your smartphone to your laptop so that you can surf the web with a computer using your phone as a modem. Some T-Mobile customers have been doing this for free since Google rolled out USB tethering and WiFi hotspot […]