Noisy whistle from the back This is a brand new 9.7″ Android tablet purchased via our local New Zealand on-line auction site, Trademe for about NZ$160. 9.7inch Allwinner A20 Dual core \1.5 Ghz, 1GB DDR3, 8GB NANDandroid 4.2 IPS From first power-on it made quite a loud high pitch whistling […]
Quad Core 1.6GHz ARM RK3188 A nice board, supplied with Android and the Linaro Linux distro installed. I chose this board because I wanted good performance, low power and LInux. I got a couple from SeeedStudio. Out of the box it boots Android. One of the apps is a boot […]
Initial Impressions After seeing the Mele in operation, yesterday I installed Raspbmc on the Raspberry Pi (R-Pi) to see how it compared. No problems during install but it won’t work with the hdmi on our TV. I could probably edit a file to force it to use hdmi; but this […]
I have a LG GT540 Android phone that’s a few years old. It doesn’t get much use, partly because none of the useful stuff actually works well enough to be “every-day useful, simple and reliable” – at least for my purposes. Android is probably great if you want to tinker […]