ADB with Acrhos 10i internet tablet on Ubuntu

I recently bought Archos 10i Internet tablet for testing the upcoming drawing software release (more soon on that) and there is an extra trick to getting it working with ADB:

1. Get the Vendor id by typing:

lsusb 

The line we are looking for is:
Bus 002 Device 007: ID 0e79:1411 Archos, Inc.

2. Add the vendor id (0e79) to /etc/udev/rules.d/51-android.rules as per normal

SUBSYSTEM=="usb", SYSFS{idVendor}=="0e79", MODE="0666"

3. And the extra trick is as per this link: archoss-solution-to-adb-connection-bug.html
You also need to add the vendor id to ~/.android/adb_usb.ini (you need to check the file doesn't exist first).

echo "0x0e79" >>~/.android/adb_usb.ini

4. Then we restart the ADB server and the device should be shown:

adb kill-server
adb start-server
adb devices

The last line shows:
List of devices attached
A10-4BE4XXXX-9FF8XXXX-015FXXXX-0D01XXXX device

HTC launch event - Desire HD and Z

HTC got friendly last week having a launch party for their yet unreleased Desire HD and Dersire Z phones. The phones are nice and light (maybe slightly too light) models with WVGA screens (the desire HD has a larger screen at 4.3").

The event was a bit misguided - the phones were in a separate room, in which only a few people were allowed to view them at a time. I think a better marketing technique would've been to have more phones so everyone that went could get a better look at them. It was quite annoying going to see new phones and not really being able to get a sense of what they feel like to use for a while. If you're going to spend all that money on marketing, then more actual phones definitely couldn't hurt, but who would say no to free food and beer anyway ...

The Desire HD borders on a mini-tablet device with such a large screen, though it is still very much a (big) phone. It also has the very nice feature of a built in DNLA server, which I am looking very forward to. Hopefully it will play nicely with MyPOD so you can easily have videocasts on your main TV. It is certainly a nice feature to have for a media device though, videos can be viewed without cables. I'm guessing more recent TVs have this DNLA client functionality built in, but I use my PlayStation which works fine (I haven't had a chance to test it with the device unfortunately).

The desire Z is slightly lower power (800MHz), and has a nice looking slide out keyboard.

The phone specs are available here:
HTC Desire HD

HTC Desire Z