How about an Android PC for only $49? Via, a company known more for its circuit boards, has put together an interesting piece of hardware. This small PC on a board doesn’t have the best specs, but you didn’t expect that for $49, right?
The concept of a mini-PC stick that runs Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich was first seen at Mobile World Congress this year with the FXI Cotton Candy. That device is available for pre-order for $199 overseas. Now, we are seeing a new mini-PC-on-a-stick for a much more reasonable $74 making the rounds on some Chinese web sites.
The Pocket TV we reported on last month that could bring Android to a HDMI-enabled TV and monitor now has a competitor priced at only $48. The CX-O1 will bring Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich to those HDMI-enabled devices in the size of a USB stick.
Advantech announced a single board computer (SBC) that runs Windows CE 6.0, Linux, or Android on a Texas Instruments OMAP35x processor. The PCM-C3500 has either 128MB or 256MB of RAM, can include 2GB of flash storage, has four serial ports and four USB 2.0 ports, and features an Ethernet port with RJ45 connector, according to the company....
Yukyung Technologies showed off a Viliv-branded, Android-based tablet at Computex equipped with a 10-inch, 1366 x 768 touchscreen. The Viliv X10 Tablet with Android offers an SD card reader, USB port, HDMI, webcam, and WiFi, and & could be an incredible iPad alternative,& according to a hands-on Laptop story....
Pantech's Sky cellphone division announced a 1GHz Snapdragon-based Android smartphone in Korea. The Sirius IM-A600S is equipped with an 8GB flash card, WiFi, T-DMB mobile TV, an HDMI port, and a 3.7 inch, 800×480 AMOLED display, says the Korea-based Sky....
I have a Toshiba a215 satalite laptop and when upgrading from 11.04 to 11.10 I completely lost the sound card. It worked fine in 04 but does not show up on lspci or aplay -l.
I tried to connect an Amazon Kindle (as I do everyday) to my 3rd. USB port, as the other two are always busy with mouse and keyboard.
When I connected the device, the computer froze and I eventually had to boot the hard way. However, when I reloaded Ubuntu, the all three USB ports weren't woking anymore.
Setting Up An Android App Build Environment With Eclipse, Android SDK, PhoneGap (Ubuntu 11.04)
This tutorial describes how you can set up an development environment
for building Android apps on an Ubuntu 11.04 desktop using Eclipse, the
Android SDK, and PhoneGap.
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