NVIDIA Sadly Won’t Provide Honeycomb Drivers and Support for Harmony Tegra 2 Devices
Well isn’t this quite unfortunate. NVIDIA responded to a question from a developer asking if porting Android 3.0 to a Harmony-based Tegra 2 tablet would be possible and the answer ticked off many-a coder: no. Instead, developers are urged to adopt the newer Ventana platform that will be found in newer devices such as the XOOM, Galaxy Tab, and G-Slate – all of which are running Android 3.0. (Some notable Harmony tablets include the Notion Ink Adam, the Advent Vega, the Viewsonic ViewPad 7, the Toshiba Folio 100 and the Viewsonic gTablet.
These devices run Android 2.2 or earlier and may never, ever see Honeycomb. (Or even Gingerbread, for that matter.) And the OEMs of said products aren’t to blame – how could they know that official support for a chipset they adopted would be dropped less than a year after its inception? Unless NVIDIA suddenly decides to release some drivers after the clear decision, your best bet is to sell off what you currently have and get a tablet with Android 3.0 preinstalled. [NVIDIA, Thanks SDW!]