I. Before You Begin 1. You must have done our How To Root the Nook Color procedure. If not, do it and then come back to this procedure and continue. 2. This method will erase your entire internal memory off of the Nook and flash Honeycomb onto it. This improves the Honeycomb performance over running it from an SD card but also means that you would need to do our unroot procedure in order to […]
It’s choices galore this time around on Verizon and with the addition of the Palm Pre 2 to its inventory, the wireless carrier now has a chunk of HP WebOS 2.0 to offer too. Starting tomorrow, Verizon customers can preorder the Palm Pre2, a device which is scheduled to go on sale from February 13th. The device will start shipping on February 17th and the rumored going price is $99.99. The Pre2 features a fast
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With the Apple iPhone 4 already on its way, Verizon might be lucky enough to play host to yet another great device, the Xperia Play. The Android phone has already been picked up by pretty much every carrier in the UK but this is the first we have heard of it even coming Stateside in the near future. The news has been outed by Wirefly on its website with a side-by-side comparison of the Play
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Of the two, the Galaxy Ace S5830 seems slightly better with a 3.5 inch HVGA display, WiFi, 5MP autofocus camera, 800MHz processor, GPS, Stereo FM and 32GB expansion (with Android 2.2 Froyo) but with a higher suggested price tag of €399. The Ace S5830 will also come preloaded with exclusive content from Progress Live 2011 tour of the band, Take That. The Galaxy Mini S5570 on the other hand stays true to its name and
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Come February 13th, the Japanese-Swedish company will reveal what it’s been staying mum on all along, the Xperia Play. This one has seen it all – leaked images, videos, you name it; hell, it’s on sale in China already, had an advert leaked, and the company still wouldn’t budge and own up. But MWC should put an end to all this and see the PlayStation phone in its official garb, as the company has now
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I. Before You Begin 1. You must have done our How To Root the Nook Color (AutoNooter Method) procedure before beginning this one. If you haven’t, please go back and do it then come back to this procedure once you are done. 2. Right now, the method used for loading Honeycomb safely involves making an SD card bootable and then loading the Honeycomb image onto it. The Nook Color automatically boots from the SD card
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I. Before You Begin 1. You MUST have done our How To Root the Nook Color procedure. Once you have finished that procedure you can come to this one and continue. II. Flash a Custom Recovery Image 1. On the Nook Color, click on the arrow button then Extras and then Market. 2. Search the Market for ROM Manager and download the free version. 3. Once you have installed it, open ROM Manager and select
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I. Before You Begin – IMPORTANT! 1. You MUST have an external SD card reader, do NOT use the NOOKColor instead. 2. You must have a Gmail account and a YouTube account that is linked to that Gmail account (furthermore, if you used the gmail email to create your Barnes & Noble account, it must be the same Gmail that is linked to the YouTube account as well). 3. You MUST be on firmware version
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So there is no photo evidence or substantiating proof, but we got a tip from a source saying that Best Buy employees got their hands on the Motorola Xoom and Motorola Artrix in a demo at work as a pre-release introduction. Opinions seem to be high of both devices with comments like, “3.0 was very smooth and love the setup” and “the laptop layout [for the Motorola Atrix] was very nice”. Some interesting info that
Well, it would seem T-Mobile has finally let the cat out of the bag. The new, highly anticipated, LG G-Slate, an Android 3.0 tablet, has been officially announced by T-Mobile this morning. It would also seem that the rumors about it being very 3D oriented were correct. The G-Slate will have the following specs: Run Android 3.0 aka Honeycomb 8.9″ 3D capable display (yes, glasses are required) Stereoscopic video cameras on the back to record
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So I’ve been personally designing a little Android app and would love for people to test it out and leave me some feedback by emailing me (email listed in the app description in the Market) or by commenting here on this post if it’s not too much trouble. You can find it in the Market by searching for ChowSpots or by clicking here if you are viewing this on an Android device. Here’s the description:
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So if you are looking to make Android apps, you’re going to need to test them as you develop them, right? Well, the easiest way to do that is to use the Android SDK’s built in Emulator (also called AVD, Android Virtual Device). Here’s how to set that up. I. Before You Begin 1. We are assuming you have done our Getting Started procedure in this series before doing this one. If not, head
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Google has just released the new SDK for Android 3.0 aka Honeycomb. This version of Android is meant to be used on tablets only while Gingerbread is to be used for Android phones (for now). Here’s is Google’s own words describing the new OS version: Android 3.0 is a new version of the Android platform that is specifically optimized for devices with larger screen sizes, particularly tablets. It introduces a brand new, truly virtual and
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So a little tip that I use on a daily basis that I thought others might find useful. Ever gone to a website and it automatically displays the mobile page, but you REALLY wanted the desktop version for whatever reason and no matter what you do you can’t get to display the desktop version? Yeah, me too. Well, here’s a little tip to get around that. I. Before You Begin. 1. This should work
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Thanks to TmoNews, it looks like we have some release date information for the LG G-Slate, the Samsung Vibrant 4G, and the Dell Streak 7 (along with some pricing details on the Streak 7). Here is the slide TmoNews got their hands on confirming the information. So first is the Dell Streak 7 on February 2nd, then comes the the Vibrant 4G (aka Galaxy S 4G) on the 23rd of February, and finally the LG
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