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Advent Vega hacked to get Android Market, Google apps

UPDATE: And the instructions are live! You’ll need a PC and a bit of know how, but tell us how you get on if you’re feeling Advent-urous.

As Android tablets go, the Advent Vega requires something of a Faustian pact. Sure, you get high specs on the cheap, but you also don’t get Google’s core Android apps, including the Android Market so you can download many, many more. Except if you’re one enterprising hacker, you do! And he’s about to share the instructions.

User Paul over at the MoDaCo forums has managed to root his Advent Vega, and load it up with the Andorid Market, and all the core apps you’d hope for, like Gmail, Google Maps (and Navigation, though good luck without GPS) and the excellent Voice Actions. Paul says’s hes putting the instructions up today for others to try out, and you can bet we’ll be doing that with our own Advent Vega. Anything you want to know about it? Click here to see the unboxing and tell us!

Advent Vega unboxed: photos and video!

We brought you the first Advent Vega unboxing courtesy of a reader yesterday, and now we’ve got our own to give you the full review treatment. You’ve been clamouring for this high spec, super cheap Google slate, so you tell us: what do you want to know about it? Read on, see the unboxing, and tell us!

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The working day is just about done, so kick back before you hit the commute with our roundup of all the latest gadget news. It’s all here for you in your teatime tech!

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Advent Vega unboxed: Reader photos! Advent Vega unboxed: Reader photos!

Advent Vega unboxed: Reader photos!

Exclusive: The Advent Vega Android tablet is shipping, even if only to a few people. See the proof: one of our readers has one, and has unboxed it for us on camera. Click through to see the gallery.

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The weekend is almost here, but there’s still a few hours to go. Help them fly by quicker with our roundup of all the latest gadget news, here in the lunchtime lowdown. Get it while it’s hot!

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The Advent Vega is available to buy online now, from PC World and Dixons. It’s priced at £250, and is shipping now. The 10.1 inch Froyo tablet was meant to arrive at the beginning of the month, but getting things right held it back by a couple of weeks. For all those who have been clamouring in the comments sections, you’ll be happy to know it’s finally here.

Will you be getting one? Click through and drop us a line in the comments!

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Teatime tech news time! Since you can now expect a roundup of all the gadget news from the US waiting for you on the Electricpig homepage when you wake up, we’re launching a new post at the end of the day instead so you can catch up on everything you missed while you were at work. It’s called Teatime Tech, and it starts right here and right now!

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Advent Vega has popped up on the PC World website, available to buy now, for the bargain basement sum of £249. Hold your horses though, as a spokesperson for Advent told us yesterday that the Advent Vega would not be arriving till later in the week, because it “wasn’t even in the country yet”. Sure enough, the buy now button is not activated yet.

UPDATE: The Advent Vega is also up on the Dixons website here, but is also not available to buy yet.

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