The PlayPad's utilizes a new standard HID protocol supported by today's leading Android developers and hardware manufacturers.

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All of MAINGEAR products are supported with lifetime labor and phone support with one to three year hardware warranty.

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All MAINGEAR products are supported with lifetime labor and phone support in the US, along with one to three year hardware warranty options.

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Zune apps, however, are not supported, despite the fact that the Kin devices are very similar to the Zune HD on a hardware level and would almost certainly be able to run them without performance concerns.

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This is in addition to many other codecs supported in software and you can purchase licenses from the Raspberry Pi Store for MPEG-2 and VC-1 hardware decoding for just a few bucks.

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