http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/vias-wondermedia-decorates-computex-with-arm-9-powered-android/ Engadget Comments for VIA's WonderMedia decorates Computex with ARM 9-powered, Android 1.6 tablets http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/vias-wondermedia-decorates-computex-with-arm-9-powered-android/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/vias-wondermedia-decorates-computex-with-arm-9-powered-android/Jun 1st 2010 11:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/vias-wondermedia-decorates-computex-with-arm-9-powered-android/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/vias-wondermedia-decorates-computex-with-arm-9-powered-android/Jun 1st 2010 11:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/vias-wondermedia-decorates-computex-with-arm-9-powered-android/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/vias-wondermedia-decorates-computex-with-arm-9-powered-android/Jun 1st 2010 12:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/vias-wondermedia-decorates-computex-with-arm-9-powered-android/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/vias-wondermedia-decorates-computex-with-arm-9-powered-android/Jun 1st 2010 11:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/vias-wondermedia-decorates-computex-with-arm-9-powered-android/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/vias-wondermedia-decorates-computex-with-arm-9-powered-android/Jun 1st 2010 11:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/vias-wondermedia-decorates-computex-with-arm-9-powered-android/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/vias-wondermedia-decorates-computex-with-arm-9-powered-android/Jun 1st 2010 11:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/vias-wondermedia-decorates-computex-with-arm-9-powered-android/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/vias-wondermedia-decorates-computex-with-arm-9-powered-android/Jun 1st 2010 11:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/vias-wondermedia-decorates-computex-with-arm-9-powered-android/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/vias-wondermedia-decorates-computex-with-arm-9-powered-android/Amen! What kind of moron product managers think it is a good idea to run an aging version of Android on a new device?

If you have a product in development, just pay your developers to update any custom software to the new Android. Besides, I think if you are going to make a Android device, you should build it with the idea that the OS is constantly updating. Don't make a computing platform that can't be updated to the new Android version. ]]>Jun 1st 2010 11:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/vias-wondermedia-decorates-computex-with-arm-9-powered-android/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/vias-wondermedia-decorates-computex-with-arm-9-powered-android/Jun 1st 2010 4:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/vias-wondermedia-decorates-computex-with-arm-9-powered-android/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/vias-wondermedia-decorates-computex-with-arm-9-powered-android/Jun 1st 2010 11:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/vias-wondermedia-decorates-computex-with-arm-9-powered-android/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/vias-wondermedia-decorates-computex-with-arm-9-powered-android/Jun 1st 2010 11:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/vias-wondermedia-decorates-computex-with-arm-9-powered-android/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/vias-wondermedia-decorates-computex-with-arm-9-powered-android/Jun 1st 2010 11:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/vias-wondermedia-decorates-computex-with-arm-9-powered-android/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/vias-wondermedia-decorates-computex-with-arm-9-powered-android/I agree. Is it me or does this Joanna love any of crap-tacular tablet pc running Android lately? ]]>Jun 1st 2010 12:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/vias-wondermedia-decorates-computex-with-arm-9-powered-android/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/vias-wondermedia-decorates-computex-with-arm-9-powered-android/Jun 1st 2010 11:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/vias-wondermedia-decorates-computex-with-arm-9-powered-android/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/vias-wondermedia-decorates-computex-with-arm-9-powered-android/
*sigh*]]>Jun 1st 2010 11:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/vias-wondermedia-decorates-computex-with-arm-9-powered-android/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/vias-wondermedia-decorates-computex-with-arm-9-powered-android/Jun 1st 2010 11:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/vias-wondermedia-decorates-computex-with-arm-9-powered-android/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/vias-wondermedia-decorates-computex-with-arm-9-powered-android/its easier to code. they changed a lot of android code going from v1.x to 2.x so tablets that were in development or production before 2.0 was released were being made for 1.5 or 1.6, or even earlier versions.
upgradind to 2.x requires a fair bit of code jiggling, something that takes time and money.
]]>Jun 2nd 2010 1:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/vias-wondermedia-decorates-computex-with-arm-9-powered-android/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/vias-wondermedia-decorates-computex-with-arm-9-powered-android/Jun 1st 2010 11:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/vias-wondermedia-decorates-computex-with-arm-9-powered-android/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/vias-wondermedia-decorates-computex-with-arm-9-powered-android/Trolling around on engadget seems more pathetic to me...]]>Jun 1st 2010 11:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/vias-wondermedia-decorates-computex-with-arm-9-powered-android/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/vias-wondermedia-decorates-computex-with-arm-9-powered-android/Jun 1st 2010 11:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/vias-wondermedia-decorates-computex-with-arm-9-powered-android/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/vias-wondermedia-decorates-computex-with-arm-9-powered-android/Jun 1st 2010 11:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/vias-wondermedia-decorates-computex-with-arm-9-powered-android/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/vias-wondermedia-decorates-computex-with-arm-9-powered-android/correct, however the eken is downclocked to 300mhz because the battery is so small. it only lasts 2 hours at 300mhz. imagine 600mhz.
the apad irobot runs the same chip at 600mhz and is much snappier. that would be a near perfect android tablet if the power supplies didnt keep failing. ]]>Jun 2nd 2010 1:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/vias-wondermedia-decorates-computex-with-arm-9-powered-android/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/vias-wondermedia-decorates-computex-with-arm-9-powered-android/Jun 1st 2010 11:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/vias-wondermedia-decorates-computex-with-arm-9-powered-android/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/vias-wondermedia-decorates-computex-with-arm-9-powered-android/Jun 1st 2010 11:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/vias-wondermedia-decorates-computex-with-arm-9-powered-android/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/vias-wondermedia-decorates-computex-with-arm-9-powered-android/Jun 1st 2010 11:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/vias-wondermedia-decorates-computex-with-arm-9-powered-android/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/vias-wondermedia-decorates-computex-with-arm-9-powered-android/
My Archos 5 is on Android 1.6 and it works pretty well at what it was intended to do.]]>Jun 1st 2010 12:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/vias-wondermedia-decorates-computex-with-arm-9-powered-android/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/vias-wondermedia-decorates-computex-with-arm-9-powered-android/Jun 1st 2010 11:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/vias-wondermedia-decorates-computex-with-arm-9-powered-android/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/vias-wondermedia-decorates-computex-with-arm-9-powered-android/
I had an n800 with a resistive screen and it worked very nicely. They're not all crappy.]]>Jun 1st 2010 12:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/vias-wondermedia-decorates-computex-with-arm-9-powered-android/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/vias-wondermedia-decorates-computex-with-arm-9-powered-android/Jun 1st 2010 4:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/vias-wondermedia-decorates-computex-with-arm-9-powered-android/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/vias-wondermedia-decorates-computex-with-arm-9-powered-android/Jun 1st 2010 12:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/vias-wondermedia-decorates-computex-with-arm-9-powered-android/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/vias-wondermedia-decorates-computex-with-arm-9-powered-android/Jun 1st 2010 12:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/vias-wondermedia-decorates-computex-with-arm-9-powered-android/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/vias-wondermedia-decorates-computex-with-arm-9-powered-android/Jun 1st 2010 12:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/vias-wondermedia-decorates-computex-with-arm-9-powered-android/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/vias-wondermedia-decorates-computex-with-arm-9-powered-android/Jun 1st 2010 12:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/vias-wondermedia-decorates-computex-with-arm-9-powered-android/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/vias-wondermedia-decorates-computex-with-arm-9-powered-android/Jun 1st 2010 12:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/vias-wondermedia-decorates-computex-with-arm-9-powered-android/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/vias-wondermedia-decorates-computex-with-arm-9-powered-android/Because Android 1.6 is a pretty choppy UI.]]>Jun 1st 2010 2:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/vias-wondermedia-decorates-computex-with-arm-9-powered-android/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/vias-wondermedia-decorates-computex-with-arm-9-powered-android/Jun 1st 2010 12:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/vias-wondermedia-decorates-computex-with-arm-9-powered-android/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/vias-wondermedia-decorates-computex-with-arm-9-powered-android/
Also you can install any compatible apks through many alternative appstores and by hand with no hackery so it's not really as big a deal as you might think.

Don't the higher androids versions largely have to do with very phone-centric stuff from Google anyway?]]>Jun 1st 2010 12:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/vias-wondermedia-decorates-computex-with-arm-9-powered-android/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/vias-wondermedia-decorates-computex-with-arm-9-powered-android/Jun 1st 2010 1:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/vias-wondermedia-decorates-computex-with-arm-9-powered-android/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/vias-wondermedia-decorates-computex-with-arm-9-powered-android/Jun 1st 2010 2:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/vias-wondermedia-decorates-computex-with-arm-9-powered-android/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/vias-wondermedia-decorates-computex-with-arm-9-powered-android/Jun 1st 2010 3:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/vias-wondermedia-decorates-computex-with-arm-9-powered-android/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/vias-wondermedia-decorates-computex-with-arm-9-powered-android/Jun 1st 2010 4:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/vias-wondermedia-decorates-computex-with-arm-9-powered-android/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/vias-wondermedia-decorates-computex-with-arm-9-powered-android/Jun 2nd 2010 2:14AM