Android 2.2, E Readers and Explosions.... What's not to like?





The Nook Color is a marvelous device... not only is it an E Reader, it's running ANDROID, which is the single most amazing OS when it comes to modifying the device to do anything... even if that function may or may not have been in the item's original product description.

This little device has already been rooted and it didn't take long for those same people to throw Android 2.2(FroYo) on there. You'll need to head over to the XDA forums to get all the info on that, I'm not on a computer where I can get that link at the moment. Beyond that, Barnes & Noble has already stated that thie Nook will be getting the 2.2 update in January.

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Can someone please tell me how an E READER got FroYo before my smart phone?

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Galaxy S phones will get Gingerbread(Eventually)

According to Samsung India, the Galaxy S phone line will be getting the full treatment when it comes to the 2.3(Gingerbread) update to the Android mobile OS.

Chew on this, Jobs!

As of today, Android phones are now being activated over 300,000 times a day. That's right, three-hundred thousand new devices each and every day.


This news comes just four months after they announced the activation of over 200,000 new Android devices every day in August.

Finally!(+1 internets, Samsung!)

If you, or anyone else you know, has a Galaxy S phone, you've probably overheard them bitching about their absolute shit GPS... scratch that if you use the internet, you hear it from apple fanboys trying to bash androind and the poor bastards afflicted by it.

Long story short, Samsung has finally, after many months of waiting, put a fix out for this software... hiccup. Basically, it scrubs down your GPS subsystem and makes it nice and factory floor fresh. Now, this is only available for the Captivate and the Vibrant, but I expect the fix to be out there for everyone shortly.

Now if we can just get them to release 2.2 for those of us who don't want to flash our phones.

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