Our biggest complaint about the variety of
Archos tablets? The lack of the Android Market, of course. But while you've been able to sideload the Market apk on lots of these devices, there were apparently compatibility issues with
Archos' new Android 2.1 / 2.2 tablets (like the
Archos 32 we reviewed just a few weeks). But fear not:
ArchosFans to the rescue! A forum member successfully complied a new gApps4Archos.apk that can be easily sideloaded, and installed to give you access to all that Google app and Marketplace goodness. Obviously, we whipped out our 32 and tried it out ourselves. We did have a few issues at first -- you must have the latest 1.0.70 firmware and we had to reboot a few times to successfully connect to Google's servers -- but we were finally able to log into our Gmail and download Pandora. If you're adventurous enough to try it out for yourself, we'd suggest hitting the source link and getting to it. Oh, and feel free to let us know how it goes in the comments.
New Archos tablets get Android Market hack, works as promised originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 12 Oct 2010 12:51:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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