Showing posts with label Android 2.2. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Android 2.2. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Nook Color will get Froyo update, become a "real tablet"

Barnes & Noble plans to introduce an Android-powered color e-reader, the Nook Color. The device will have an seven-inch screen, as did the earlier device running Android 2.1.

The Android 2.2 update for the device which should give users access to the Android Marketplace as well as a more typical home screen, potentially making it one of the cheapest Android tablets on the market.

If the device retails for about $250, it would undercut pricing of somewhat similar devices such as the Samsung Galaxy Tab.

If you had any doubt that parts of the e-reader market would overlap with the tablet PC market, this move should eliminate those doubts.

Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Froyo (Android 2.2) Update: You Won't Notice Much, At First

Chances are you won't really notice that much when you reboot with Froyo for the first time. This isn't a major overhaul to the look and feel of Android.

What you can't see is the "Just-in-Time compiler," which can double the processing power, and the ability to run Adobe Flash 10.1.

Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Android 2.2

In case you were wondering what new things it will allow you to do.

"Tokens" are the New "FLOPS," "MIPS" or "Gbps"

Modern computing has some virtually-universal reference metrics. For Gemini 1.5 and other large language models, tokens are a basic measure...