Archos 5 says hello, goodbye to Android 1.6

December 28th, 2009 | Category: Gadget Corner

It would seem somebody by at Archos HQ was sipping a little too much of the Chardonnay by the holidays, as the company’s latest firmware update for the 5-inch World Wide Web Tablet has suffered something of a false start. Intended to bring the onboard 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 from the default software on the device. Ah well, a shambling but active updating regimen is better than none at all.

Archos 5 says hello, goodbye to Android 1.6 originally presented on Engadget on Mon, 28 Dec 2009 05:37:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Original post by Vladislav Savov

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