December 25, 2011 by Raz in Ainol, Android with No Comments.
Someone over at Ainol seems to have leaked a beta version of Android 4.0 ICS for their Ainol Novo 7 Advanced. More info and download firmware on the forums.
December 6, 2011 by Raz in Ainol, Android, Android News with No Comments.
Ainol are officially the first company to release a tablet running Android 4.0 AKA Ice Cream Sandwich and its not even a ARM based tablet, it will be running on a MIPS based processor by Ingenic semiconductors. The Ainol Novo 7 Basic tablet isn't exactly new, it has been around for a month, last week it made news as ingenic were working with MIPS to get the official go ahead to port Android 3.0, but now it looks like they are going straight to Android 4.0. The tablet has a 1ghz MIPS based processors, 7" 800x480 resolution screen, capacitive touch panel and 8GB of internal memory. The price tag is slated to be around $150 for the 8GB version. Ainol also seem to be rebadging the Novo7 into the Ainovo. Via Engadget
November 25, 2011 by Raz in Android, Android News, Rockchip with 1 Comment.
Now that Android 4.0 is officially open source Rockchip have wasted no time in starting to port Android 4.0 to work on tablets running on their popular Rockchip RK2918 chips. We have got a video of the new Window N90 tablet running a working Android 4.0, take it with a pinch of salt as the video has definitely been sped up.
October 20, 2011 by Alex in Android, Android News, Video with No Comments.
Hong Kong has many great things to offer: fantastic food, scenic city scenes, excellent public transportation and the warmth of over crowding (?). One that may even top this list is the massive electronics scene. An example of this greatness is the latest version of Android - 4.0 AKA Ice Cream Sandwich - that was spotted on a smartphone at an electronics event recently held in this fine city. From what we can gather in terms of improved features from the older versions are as follows: (click after the break) Facial recognition unlock Direct Android screenshot New Gmail, calendar, contacts, app interface, widgets and photo gallery Upgraded notifications Android Beam - NFC file transfer Cloud service for photos and panorama mode for camera Virtual keys as opposed to phy
February 15, 2011 by Alex in Android, Android News with No Comments.
This year's Mobile World Congress has Rightware - the company responsible for Audi's MMI interface - showcasing their new and fully functional Stereoscopic 3D homescreen for Android, and the first in the world according to them. The 3D user interface is based off the company's Kanzi UI which is a platform used for displaying complex 3D UI's on mobile devices. The video after the break shows the 3D homescreen and what it looks like when flipping through the functions. From the big screen to home TV screens and now on to screens that will sit in your pocket - three dimensions seem to still be going strong. As the the actual layout of the UI - nothing out of the ordinary here, and with Android 3.0 Honeycomb already being quite a stunner, one can only hope that the 3D actually pops out at
February 8, 2011 by HS in Android, Android News with No Comments.
The unthinkable has happened! Well, it's not really unthinkable, it was bound to happen sooner or later. Google's web-based Android Market allows you to purchase or select an app online to be installed across all of your devices - after the purchase or selection, no additional checks are made! It's only as long as you're logged into to your Google account on your Android devices. So, the big question is: What if somebody else installs an app onto your device? Of course, this is dependent on them getting access to your Google account, but if they did, they could abuse your credit card if you've saved the information; they could install key-logging software and gain access to nearly all your important information; they could set the wallpaper on your phone to a photograph of themselves jus
February 1, 2011 by Alex in Android, Android News, Apple with No Comments.
With the ever-increasing array of Android OS tablets that have been blossoming since 2010, and more specifically with the Android tablet market share increasing tenfold in 4Q of 2010, Apple and their iPad have now reached the inevitable match-up. From around October to the end of December, Android OS devices held 22% of the global tablet shipments, a 2.3% increase from the previous quarter. Apple on the other hand has that little red arrow that points down, indicating its drop from 96% to 75%. With stellar Android tabs on the rise from Motorola, Samsung, Acer (and ASRock), it was the Samsung Galaxy Tab that drove the Android front upwards according to Strategic Analytics director Neil Mawston. Come 2011, tablets like the Xoom and LG G-slate will join the Galaxy Tab (perhaps even the Ga
January 31, 2011 by Alex in Android, Android News with 1 Comment.
Yes I know the pun in the title is lame, but what's not is the fact that Google wil be unveiling Androids latest operating system - 3.0 Honeycomb. Hailed as a benchmark in tablet technology, Honeycomb is the first version of Android to be optimized for tablets as well as hand-sets. The unveiling of Android 3.0 Honeycomb will take place on the 2nd of February at the Mountain View Campus, which will surely see some coverage of the OS up and running in full hands-on style, as we have only seen snippets of it in action thus far. Tablets like the Xoom and G-Slate are the ambassadors of the OS (as it is their OS), so with the announcement of Honeycomb, we can speculate that their release is imminent. One more thing, you have to admit that the Honeycomb logo does look pretty darn cool. We thi
January 31, 2011 by Alex in Android, Android News, Tablet with 2 Comments.
With the Barnes and Noble Nook Colour being rooted here and overclocked there, it's no surprise that the latest version of Android - 3.0 Honeycomb - that has already been seen on a few soon-to-be-released tablets, has found its way onto the favorably abused/augmented device. The video shows Android 3.0 Honeycomb running smoothly on the Nook Colour. However, since the code used to root the device with is an early build, independent developer Deeper-blue (whose hands we see in the video) managed to get the hardware accelerated graphics working, but not so for the accelerometer, sound and WiFi. Once Google releases the source code for the OS, we may be seeing a new video showing all, if not more of what Honeycomb can do. But until then, we still have an awesome depiction of what Honeycomb
January 26, 2011 by Alex in Tablet with No Comments.
Fancy using the Notion Ink Adam's modified Android (Eden) OS but have a Viewsonic G-Tablet instead? We know that's what you've been dying for, so here you have it, the link to the modified OS that can be ported on to the G-Tablet - courtesy of the XDA developers. The XDA whizz kidz have managed to port the operating system from the Notion Ink Adam onto a Viewsonic G-Tablet, and it seems to run smoothly thus far, albeit being still at an early stage with a few tweaks to come. Grab the download over at the XDA developers forum to be able to play with the OS on your G-Tablet, if you own one. It may not have the same specs at the Adam tablet such as Pixel Qi screen or a swivel camera, unless of course it is a Notion Ink Adam tablet, in which case... you may have purchased the wrong dev
