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Android Kit Kat lands on the Nook Color

Dave Farquhar — Thu, 30 Jan 2014 03:35:36 +0000

I didn’t know if it would ever happen, but experimental nightly builds for Android 4.4 (Kit Kat) have arrived for the venerable Nook Color. I installed it tonight. Since I’ve previously run other versions of Cyanogenmod on the Nook Color,

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A new Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROM

Dave Farquhar — Wed, 16 Oct 2013 11:00:13 +0000

I’ll get back to the Android questions momentarily, but here’s an interesting development: randomblame on XDA-Developers has managed to develop a working Jelly Bean 4.3 ROM called Jelly Time for the Sero 7 Pro, even without kernel source. As one

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This week in mobile

Dave Farquhar — Sun, 16 Jun 2013 11:00:01 +0000

I have zero intention of doing a mobile roundup every week, but it sure seems like there were a few noteworthy developments in the mobile field this week that are worth mentioning. So, here goes. Microsoft releases Office for Apple

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How to disable animation on a Hisense Sero 7 Pro (or anything else running Android 4.2)

Dave Farquhar — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 11:00:29 +0000

Disabling animation is one way to make a Hisense Sero 7 Pro, or anything else running Jelly Bean, feel faster and smoother. That’s a hidden feature, but it’s not difficult to make it visible and selectable. Bring up settings Navigate

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The $99 Android tablet of 2013: The Hisense Sero 7 LT (or Lite)

Dave Farquhar — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 21:16:26 +0000

So when I decided to bring myself into the current decade, tablet-wise, I opted for the $150 Hisense Sero 7 Pro, though I was certainly curious about its $99 little brother. Unfortunately, information on the Sero 7 Lite hasn’t been

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The good-enough $99 Android tablet

Dave Farquhar — Tue, 04 Jun 2013 11:00:17 +0000

Last month, low-end television maker Hisense introduced two new 7-inch Android tablets. The $149 Hisense Sero 7 Pro is a fairly close clone of the Google Nexus 7 that adds an SD card slot. With its quad-core processor and 1280×800

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Asus gets into the sub-$200 tablet fray

Dave Farquhar — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 10:35:40 +0000

Now Asus is jumping into the sub-$150 tablet range too, but with a device that’s much more subdued than what Polaroid and Archos are offering. It appears to me that Asus is trying to remain mid-tier, and hope that name

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Polaroid’s M7 and M10 tablets make me glad I didn’t buy a tablet last month

Dave Farquhar — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 00:41:53 +0000

I didn’t buy a tablet last month. I knew about Acer’s new low-end tablet, the Iconia B1, and that they were at least initially reluctant to release it in the United States, but I hoped that either Acer would change

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