Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Google Glass kernel source now available to download

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The Google Glass kernel source is apparently available to download for developers to start playing with it.

Karthik's Geek Center reports that it has found the Google Glass kernel source "in a temporary location on Google Code" from where it should be moved to a more permanent location in the future. In case you're interested in getting your hands on it, head on to the Source links below to get yours – you're looking at a 68.9MB tar.xz file.

What's interesting about the Google Glass kernel is that it has some NFC references in it, as the same source points out:

On digging into the Kernel, looks like it has got all the headers required for NFC support. May be Glass is NFC enabled? Or may be, since its running Android source, it has the NFC drivers by default?

However, there's nothing to suggest that Google Glass will have any NFC-related features. In fact, NFC is not mentioned in the specs sheet of the product – and by now we also learned more details about the processor type, RAM and Android version Google Glass runs.

Read more: Android Authority
Read more: Google code
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