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December 28th, 2009, 10:50
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It would seem somebody over at Archos HQ was sipping a little too much of the Chardonnay over the holidays, as the company's latest firmware update for the 5-inch Internet Tablet (http://www.engadget.com/tag/archos5) has suffered something of a false start. Intended to bring the onboard Android (http://www.engadget.com/product/android) up to the civilized ways of version 1.6 and to fix a few outstanding bugs, the update has been yanked due to the above "last-minute major issue." Mind you, when the non-toxic version does hit, you should still be wary -- it appears the latest firmware disables the hack that allowed users to re-install some Google apps missing (http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/12/archos-5-has-99-problems-and-a-glitch-is-one-160gb-version-pull/) from the default software on the device. Ah well, a shambling but active (http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/16/archos-5-firmware-1-1-01-rights-all-wrongs/) updating regimen is better than none at all.Archos 5 says hello, goodbye to Android 1.6 (http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/28/archos-5-says-hello-goodbye-to-android-1-6/) originally appeared on Engadget (http://www.engadget.com) on Mon, 28 Dec 2009 05:37:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
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It would seem somebody over at Archos HQ was sipping a little too much of the Chardonnay over the holidays, as the company's latest firmware update for the 5-inch Internet Tablet (http://www.engadget.com/tag/archos5) has suffered something of a false start. Intended to bring the onboard Android (http://www.engadget.com/product/android) up to the civilized ways of version 1.6 and to fix a few outstanding bugs, the update has been yanked due to the above "last-minute major issue." Mind you, when the non-toxic version does hit, you should still be wary -- it appears the latest firmware disables the hack that allowed users to re-install some Google apps missing (http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/12/archos-5-has-99-problems-and-a-glitch-is-one-160gb-version-pull/) from the default software on the device. Ah well, a shambling but active (http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/16/archos-5-firmware-1-1-01-rights-all-wrongs/) updating regimen is better than none at all.Archos 5 says hello, goodbye to Android 1.6 (http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/28/archos-5-says-hello-goodbye-to-android-1-6/) originally appeared on Engadget (http://www.engadget.com) on Mon, 28 Dec 2009 05:37:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
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