The Nvidia corporation will drop Android support for its devices running on the Harmony platform, according to a post on its official developer forums by Andrew Edelsten, Tegra Developer Relations.� This means that devices using the Harmony platform at their core� -- the Viewsonic gTablet and ViewPad7, Advent Vega, Toshiba Folio 100, and Notion Ink Adam -- will not have drivers built for video acceleration for any current or future releases of Android.�
This is not good news.� None of these Tegra 2-based devices is even a year old, and they are essentially dead in the water.� Even if someone were to build a higher version of Android for them, with no hardware support it's going to be a horrible experience.� Don't believe me?� Try an SDK�port of Honeycomb on, well, on anything.�
I got myself a third cup of coffee, and sat down all ready to bash Nvidia for abandoning support for very capable devices, then I realized something -- I can't.� These popular devices are just the first official victims of Google's new method of forcing companies to obtain its� blessing to use a free and open-source operating system.� It's not Nvidia's fault.� You can't be expected to spend money and resources to update drivers for tablets that will never have official support from Google.� Andrew says that they have already updated their Ventana based devices to Android 2.3, and are waiting for Google to release Honeycomb to them.� I'm afraid we're going to see the exact same thing with the original Galaxy Tab, and it won't be Samsung's fault this time.� The phrase "throwing the baby out with the bathwater" comes to mind. [Nvidia Developer Zone]� Thanks, Adam!
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