The Archos 5 Internet Tablet runs Google Android, has the 5 inch, 800 x 480 pixel arrangement and an 800MHz ARM-based processor. Out of a box it can hoop a far-reaching operation of audio as well as video formats, as well as with the small work, you can even install a Google Android Market on it. But the Archos 5 is stuck with Android 1.6 for right away, and it’s not transparent of Archos will ever update the program to let you run newer versions of a handling system given a association is now pulling a new line of “generation 8″ tablets using Android 2.2.

I wouldn’t be astounded if hackers figure out the way to ascent the OS upon their own… but it looks like a Archos 5 isn’t just limited to Android. Tomasz Sterna has uploaded the video showing an Archos 5 Internet Tablet using MeeGo Linux. More specifically, it’s using a smartphone version of MeeGo that, as we’ve seen prior to, runs quite well on inscription computers.

You can check out a video after a break. Right now, Sterna describes it as a “basic adaptation” of MeeGo, and it looks similar to not all works — though I wouldn’t expect some functions, like say, a phone dialer to work upon a Archos 5 since it doesn’t have phone capabilities.

It’s the bit early to contend either MeeGo or other open source operating systems will be means to keep older tablets like a Archos 5 utilitarian prolonged after the death dates of their original program. But it’s positively nice to see which users competence have a option of swapping handling systems, most the way which installing a light weight Linux placement can move brand new life to an comparison PERSONAL COMPUTER designed to run Windows 95.

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