Posts Tagged ‘other-things’

Nokia N900 gets Android 2.3 Gingerbread port

December 22nd, 2010

It’s been a while since we’ve seen Nokia’s N900 getting an Android hack – last time it was Froyo on the Maemo smartphone – but this time the NITDroid team have outdone themselves. They’ve supposedly managed to get Android 2.3 Gingerbread running on the N900

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NOOKcolor Android 2.2 Froyo hack revealed [Video]

December 6th, 2010

Having been rooted at the tail end of November , the Barnes & Noble NOOKcolor is now getting Android 2.2 Froyo, though only unofficially. Several people have managed to get the updated OS onto the 7-inch touchscreen tablet, with jacememes sharing a video of it in action (that you can see below), but if it’s instructions you’re after then Jesse Vincent has the details. Be warned, however, this isn’t the simple matter of downloading a ROM and reflashing your ereader

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Droid 2 update incoming, on track to match DROID X software versions?

October 18th, 2010

In more DROID 2 news, it seems as if users may get the 2.3.15 update that the DROID X received that fixes many Exchange issues among other things. This update will bring Droid 2 users up to Droid X software versions. A reader over at Droid-Life had contacted Motorola Customer Support asking if an update is coming soon, the answer received was a yes and that it has already been launched, suggesting that the user just waits for the update.

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HTC HD2 gets functional Froyo ROM [Video]

August 2nd, 2010

Last we saw of the efforts to get Android 2.2 Froyo running on the HTC HD2 , the Google OS would load but there were some potentially deal-breaking 3G and audio issues.

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