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Augen tablet won’t work with Android Market – buyer beware
August 7, 2010 | 11:14 am
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By Paul Biba
We’ve discussed this cheap Android tablet a number of times. It’s being sold at KMart. Well, buyer beware.
The tablet won’t work with the Android Market according to Liliputing. It will access the market, but won’t download any of the apps. It seems that Augen does not have proper authorization from Google to access the market.
Android is open source, but some of the apps that run on it are not and must be licensed by Google. This includes the app that accesses the Android Market. Evidently Augen has never licensed the app from Google, so it is blocked from downloading from the Market.
Liliputing says there are other ways to install apps on the tablet, but this places the tablet squarely in the Geek corner and not something the average casual user would know about.
It looks as if cheap Android tablets may be cheap for a reason!
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I believe that at this moment approximately zero Android tablets have formal, sanctioned access to the Android Market. Presumably this will be sorted out in the next few weeks otherwise, as you say, Android tablets will remain geek-bound.
Not so, the Dell Streak works fine with Android Market.
Yeah, there are a multitude of sites with the “apk” installers for Android apps (including apps that are supposed to be purchased). Not hard to find, really.
@Carl: So … the Dell Streak is not for sale yet, at least according to Dell. Scrub that one.
@Spider: I may be misunderstanding you. I stated there are no Android tablets with formal, sanctioned access to the Android Market. Sure, you can obtain apps from individual vendors on some websites, but that’s not the same thing, is it? One of the big pluses of the Android Market is the billing system. You pay one place — often your cellphone carrier or one centralised place (Apple for example) for all apps in the market.
The Archos 7 is another example “tablet” which does not have access to the Market.
If there are real tablets out there yet, I’d love to hear the brands names. (Plus, I’m not convinced a 5″ screen is a “tablet” — to each his own, of course, but 9 or 10″ ought to be part of the definition.)