New BlackBerry PlayBook owner. Please advise !

[Conkers]

You sir are a legend... Thanks for that.

[maltloaf]

found the tutorial which worked for me, will link to it here just in case someone else has the same problems as I did

Android market installation and despite what it says, this works on the latest 6149 build too, as long as you rooted before updating.

http://crackberry.com/how-install-an...berry-playbook

[Conkers]

i think my next adventure in playbook land is getting dosbox running, maybe with windows! lol.

[braymond]

Mate at work wants one of these - is official android store support coming then in feb ?

can anyone explain to me what is coming for android in feb? my mate wants one but I may have got my facts wrong . thanks

[maltloaf]

afaik, the runtime for android apps will come out of beta. I would assume that they will still need repackaging to run and will need downloading from appworld, once repackaged. I think official market access is a but too much to hope for, but I may be wrong

[emu]

mines arrived

tried liveonlinfooty using my sony xperia wireless tethering and it worked a treat

[emu]

anybody recommend a good case that acts as a stand as well?

[maltloaf]

Play and Amazon are both doing the official cases for around £20 (although I'm yet to receive my Amazon one).

There's a thread in Biggy's somewhere...

[sparkymf]

Here you go guys how to get usb support.

http://crackberry.com/how-connect-us...berry-playbook

[Conkers]

This thing is getting better & better...

edit: ordered a usb on the go lead to play with....£2.50 from the bay

[emu]

whooooo just installed my first bar

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[rudey]

the 64gb version sells for just over £200 in Kuwait,

[Gunnzie]

Do you think this device will ever get a Gingerbread or Honeycomb custom rom? I'd buy one if it had vanilla Android on it.

I only took mine back as I didn't like the OS and lack of applications. The hardware itself was excellent.

[Conkers]

I prefer the os its running, the browser is the best ive ever seen on a tablet... and ive had allsorts! lol.

I now have dosbox running, just downloaded the zip from crackberry forums renamed to bar and sideloaded it.. installed day of the tentacle via scp into /accounts/1000/shared and it runs a treat... Im off now to try & install more dos classics and maybe windows 95

[Gunnzie]

What does sideloading actually mean? Is it like emulation?

[emu]

been messing with mine all evening and love it

screen is quality i installed the k9 email client tonight to get round not having one built in and it works a treat

shame about the ac3 audio not playing as most of my stuff is in that format

i did some quick video footage today and was really impressed with the quality

[Conkers]

What does sideloading actually mean? Is it like emulation?

Basically installing an app but not using appworld to do it.

[braymond]

If this gets ac3 and more apps I will be very happy. Its such a slick device.

[Hodge20001]

im going to order a micro hdmi, do the usb host hack and BOOM ........... i do have a archos 7 but the screen and os on this are amazing.

ive had a vega, played with a few ipads / ipads 2's and a transformer...... its the os and the smoothness of this thats great! for the money its the best tab if you ask me

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[Gunnzie]

If it gets GemRB and OnLive I would reconsider getting one.

I should point out I am still following this thread as its a great piece of hardware and I'm just hoping to read that ezPDF, Repligo, or latest Adobe Reader get ported to it. Plus something like moboplayer for ac3 support.