Hacked! Archos Arnova 8 with Android Market and Root Access

Last week the Archos Arnova 8 went on sale in the US but even before the US release, hackers have already created a firmware so that you can add some features to the tablet that are not present in the current Archos Arnova 8 software One of these is the access to the Google Android [...]

Personalize the news feeds with My Taptu

My Taptu is a social news aggregator. The premise is that RSS feeds will continue to feed you with information, but not all these information are relevant for you so you will not want to have them cluttering your news feed list. According to Taptu CEO Mitch Lazar, there is a filtering failure in RSS [...]

NEC netbook uses NVIDA Tegra 2

The Japanese market is bound to get a new netbook from NEC with the Android 2.2 and NVIDIA Tegra 2. LifeTouch is the name of the NEC Netbook and it comes with a 7 inch screen with a resolution of 800×480 pixels. The screen is resistive and is packed with a 2MP camera, accelerometer and [...]

Installation of apps on NOOKcolor

As we all know, Nookcolor is a 7 inch color e-book reader with a unique twist with the inclusion of Android on the device. Its basic model only offers some key applications like the application from Barnes and Noble as well as a browser for the web. Of course hackers will certainly find a way [...]

Run your apps in full screen with the Samsung Galaxy Tab

In Samsung Galaxy Tab you might have seen that some applications failed to take advantage of the full screen size. This leaves an unsightly border. Our dear heroes at Engadget were able to find a way to go around this supposed glitch. There is a free app that is called spare parts that you can [...]

Too many Android App Stores – Bad news for Android Smartbooks

Google Android OS was tailor made for mobile phones only, but lately it is being used in much bigger devices. The Android market, unfortunately can only be used for mobile phones only.

To counter this problem, Archos has launched its own App Store called AppsLib. HP, Dell and Lenovo together joined hands and launched and Android store, insydemarket.

Even Handango and GetJar are offering Android apps.

It is high time that Google takes some crucial steps in creating a single, unified Android store to cater to the devices beyond cell phones. Otherwise, there would be too much of confusion for the users, not to mention less number of apps to choose from

Google Android Application Market launched for netbooks!

Insyde Software, the company behind the first Android netbook by Acer, has launched Insyde Market, which will offer applications for the netbooks that run Google Android. Folks at Insyde software have promised that wide range of applications for the Android will become available in the coming months.

At the time of this news post, I can already see 59 applications available at the Insydemarket’s website, which is good sign for the Android based netbooks.

One question that comes to my mind is that: would it be possible to get access to the Insyde Market if you have yourself installed the Android OS on the netbook

Android Dev Phone 1: a SIM-unlocked and hardware-unlocked G1 – just $399

Google never leaves a chance to surprise us. It has unvieled the Dev Phone 1, which is fully SIM unlocked, which means that you are not bound to use the T-mobile SIM.  Also, it is hardware unlocked which means that the bootloader is not locked and can use custom bootloaders in the future, if required. [...]