Webby is the Android-powered Chumby thing that hasn’t won any awards — yet
What is a Webby? It is, according to its manufacturer Avantis, “a revolutionary new gadget which is like nothing your customers have seen before.” That, of course, assumes they’ve never seen a Chumby, because that’s basically what this is — running Android, though. It features a suite of widgets and little apps that will let you stream internet radio, check your e-mails, cruise RSS feeds, and even wake up to an alarm. Yeah, familiar stuff, but the apparent lack of social networkability is a bit of a bummer. (There doesn’t even seem to be a Twitter client!) It’s powered by a 600MHz ARM CPU with 256MB of RAM, 2GB of internal flash paired with SD and USB expansion. The 3.5-inch touchscreen has a resolution of 320 x 240 and it’ll connect over 802.11b/g/n WiFi. It even has a DMB tuner if you happen to be living in a land that’s similarly equipped. All that controlled by the wonder that is Android 2.1, but for an undisclosed price.
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Webby is the Android-powered Chumby thing that hasn’t won any awards — yet originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 13 Feb 2011 03:33:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted: February 13th, 2011
at 7:33am by Tim Stevens
Topics: AlarmClock, Android, Android2.1, alarm clock, android 2.1, arm, avantis, webby
HTC Evo 4G rooted in record time (video)
We’re still a good dozen days away from its public release, but the Evo 4G has already been given a rooting makeover. Google dished out Evo handsets to all the lucky (so lucky!) attendees of its blowout I/O 2010 event, and a trio of those visitors rolled up their sleeves and decided to get down and intimate with the phone over the weekend. The product of their labor is at this stage just a few screenshots and a blurry video after the break, but fear not, we’re sure details of the hack will be forthcoming promptly.
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HTC Evo 4G rooted in record time (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 24 May 2010 03:47:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted: May 24th, 2010
at 7:47am by Vladislav Savov
Topics: Android, Android2.1, Evo4g, HtcEvo4g, android 2.1, evo, evo 4g, hack, hacking, htc, htc evo 4g, root, rooted, video
Android 2.1-equiped Motorola Sholes tablet spied in China as XT701?
No sooner do we get brief corner glimpses of the supposed Motorola Sholes tablet do we get tipped off to this writeup from Androidin.net which has a number of pictures of an eerily similar keyboard-less handset with a 3.7-inch screen, Android 2.1, FM radio, and interestingly enough, only a 5 megapixel camera — last we heard it was going to be 8. Also debatable is a HDMI port, since the image that would show it is a tad too blurry. Otherwise, it seems to be about in line with what we expected, and it also seems destined for China Unicom as the XT701 (analogous to China Mobile’s Motorola Android device). Now how about a few dashes of hope we’ll see this stateside, eh Moto? Two more shots after the break.
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Android 2.1-equiped Motorola Sholes tablet spied in China as XT701? originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 03 Dec 2009 23:46:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted: December 3rd, 2009
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Topics: Android, Android2.1, BreakingNews, ChinaUnicom, Motorola, Motorola sholes, MotorolaSholes, MotorolaSholesTablet, SholesTablet, Xt701, android 2.1, breaking news, china, china unicom, motorola sholes tablet, sholes, sholes tablet, tablet, xt 701
