Friday, January 28, 2011

Nook Color earns its very early, very unofficial Android 3.0 Honeycomb wings

via Engadget


One of the first things that happens after a brand new platform emulator breaks loose is that a bunch of hackers far smarter than ourselves get hold of it, tear it apart, & port it to whatever's convenient. In the case of this week's Android 3.0 Honeycomb preview, "whatever's convenient" would be the Nook Color, which reigns as perhaps the lowest priced decent-quality Android tablet funds can currently buy. Naturally, xda-developers has a thread going on the subject as they speak; the current port is said to be  slow & mostly broken -- but then again, that kind of describes the current state of the emulator itself. excellent news is that the developer says they designs on working on graphics acceleration to improve performance over the weekend, so with any luck, the Xoom might have some unofficial competition before  long. Follow the break for another shot.

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