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The real focus, however, is on digital media playback.

Now we come to another Android product, this on a complete computer system running Android called the Favi Smart Stick that turns your dumb TV into a 'smart' TV that can run any of the gazillion Android apps. The BlueStacks App Player is a very impressive platform and, minor flaws aside, it's a very cool achievement and gets a Gearhead rating of 4 out of 5. mainly because I'm not very good at them. For example, Fruit Ninja worked astoundingly well and reminded me once again why I don't like games. So, even though trying to get Ubuntu for Android running was disappointing, all of the more common Android apps I tried worked perfectly. I shall try again when I have a little more time. A combination of failed downloads and file managers that wouldn't delete files was too much. I had to download the OS images (which seemed amazingly slow) and then unzip and install them. This is incredibly annoying.Ī really cool thing to do is to install Ubuntu for Android on the BlueStacks App Player, but after wrestling with this for a couple of hours I gave up.

That said, on OS X, apps running under the BlueStacks App Player are oddly twitchy - the slightest mouse movements will be interpreted in unexpected ways and you'll suddenly find yourself hurtling away from whatever you were doing to another part of your app. The BlueStacks App Player version 0.25 running on OS X Mountain Lion How does Bluestacks do all of this? The company claims to have developed a multi-OS runtime with 'breakthrough virtualization technology.' The company describes this as 'a lightweight, optimized, soft hypervisor with deep enhancements to support 'embedded virtualization'.' The company claims 'the BlueStacks virtualization technology can very easily support different permutations and combinations of operating systems and their applications,' and suggests it will be able to run Android on Windows on ARM architectures, on the Chrome OS (for x86), in a Chrome browser tab, and even run Windows on Android (now that's intriguing).

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