I'm not sure where the original port/code is coming from, but these modders are getting ports from the Notion Ink Adam guys. It still doesn't have full hardware acceleration, so no flash vidoes and possibly some other vids, def no HD. but standard vids should play. It plays angry birds ok.
good enough for web surfing and reading email. speaking of, the email app in froyo and gingerbread was terrible. the one from honeycomb is much better, a lot more like the gmail website. bb On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 10:50 AM, Karthik Poobal <[email protected]> wrote: > I like the XOOM hardware but at this point there aren't enough apps that work > well on Honeycomb that I use my xoom once every few weeks. > So how are they able to make the ports without google releasing the HC source > code? > > -- > Karthik Poobal > Louisiana Board of Regents > [email protected] > [email protected] > 225-341-5855 > Skype: poobal > > > > On Jun 27, 2011, at 10:23 AM, Brad Bendily wrote: > >>> However, i decided i wanted an Android tablet for myself. And, if so, >>> honeycomb >>> was/is the way to go. A buddy of mine bought a Xoom. It's really nice, >>> also speedy, >>> Then woot came along with the >>> Viewsonic gtablet for $280. Which as Tim said previously, is the >>> tegra2 dual core chip. >> >> So, did get the Viewsonic Gtablet and there has finally be a solid >> Honeycomb port for it. I've been running the mod for a week and >> it has been very stable. The only problems have been with apps that >> don't work on honeycomb and it's hard to tell from the app store which ones >> those are. >> >> I followed this thread to do the install: >> http://www.slatedroid.com/topic/17863-rom-12-bottle-of-smoke-honeycomb-for-gtab-g-tabletzpad-t2/ >> >> It's very sweet and i'm very surprised. >> With Froyo or Gingerbread, this tablet wasn't very useful to me, i am not >> impressed by either of those OS versions, but honeycomb makes a huge >> difference and makes >> the gtab a completely different tablet, so much more useful now. >> >> bb >> >> _______________________________________________ >> General mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > -- Have Mercy & Say Yeah _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
