It seems Google, Motorola and LG want to give the iPad 2 a run for its money next year. Motorola and LG plan to release their Honeycomb (Android 3.0) tablets in February to March 2011. Honeycomb will finally be ready to take the tablets of every tablet manufacturer out there that isn’t Apple. The tablets [...]
We all thought we wouldn’t see 3D phones till late next year, but Sharp may bring them much sooner. A pair of glasses-free 3D phones go on sale in Japan still this year. No model numbers were given but Sharp hopes to expand to the US, China, and India in 2011. Along with this a [...]
Following a similar move by Sony, electronic company Samsung is looking to Google to expand their market with the inclusion of Google TV on their future TV models. Samsung televisions already come equipped with integrated apps, but with the recent demand of full internet TV services, the addition of Google TV is a must. The head of Samsung’s TV [...]
It seems like Nexus S will be another phone with a curved display (though different than Dell Venue). All OLED displays are different than LCD in many ways, but two of the big differences are that OLED displays are very thin, and they can also be bent, while an LCD has to stay flat to [...]
The Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 has been using Android 2.1 but a major issue with the phone is that it does not support multi-touch. For some reason Sony Ericsson has stated that “Multi-touch will not be a feature in future updates” for the Xperia X10. There has been an addition on the company blog that [...]
Good news today for Japanese consumers wanting to get their hands on new Android devices. Panasonic is finally stepping out of the dark and throwing their hats in the ring. Speaking at a recent news conference in regards to Panasonic’s lack of involvement in the Android explosion, the head of their mobile division, Osamu Waki gave [...]
The tablet market may not be doing as well as we thought, according to analyst Ashok Kumar of Investment bank Rodman and Renshaw. Even though tablet sales are predicted to take a chunk out of netbook sales over the next five years, this past quarter has indicated that only 3% of sales corresponds to tablets. [...]
A lot of people are iPhone, iPad, and especially Android users, have complained about the lack of a big feature in Google Docs – the ability to edit documents on mobile devices. Until now you could only see your documents in Google Docs, but you weren’t able to modify them. Google is announcing that iPads, [...]
No one can deny that Google Goggles is very innovative in the search game. It takes a picture and searches the internet for it. But it seems Google is trying to take it to the next step. It’s trying to tie in Advertisements. The idea is that you take a picture of a movie poster and [...]
The Evil Empire of Jobs and Company may have announced Beatles coming to Itunes, but all that was trumped by GOOGLE and their announcement of a Market Update, which is more like an overhaul. So the dev tools are indeed better. So the Publishing Interface will now have Hi Res Graphics, Promotional Videos, Featured Images, [...]
ACCESS has just released a new browser into the Android market with some unique features to try out. NetFront Life is a standalone app and cannot be used as your full-time browser, just a different way to search and surf the web. The browser itself has all your normal features including bookmarks, tabs, zoom, and history. You can choose [...]
PapayaMobile, the guys behind Papaya Farm, that Farmville like game in the Android market, announced the launch of an easy to use game engine for developers. It is described as “A free, Open GL run-time script game engine that is a user-friendly, straightforward way to develop games and reach Papaya’s 4 million global users via viral marketing and [...]
Acer Liquid owners that are on Rogers, rejoice! Your phones are finally getting the Android 2.2 update. If a company like Acer who is new to smartphones can bring an update in months as opposed to a year or more, than I have faith in all smartphone manufacturers that the updating processing will become faster [...]
For those of you that were excited enough to pre-order the NOOKcolor then start checking your mailboxes because these babies have begun to ship…EARLY!!!! If you made a store reservation then you will have to wait till Friday the 19th to pick up your color e-reader however there are demo units in stores so please [...]
Well it looks like the elusive HTC Droid Merge will be showing its lovely sleek-looking head at Verizon this Thursday. Seeing as this is Verizon’s first HTC phone to sport a physical sliding keyboard, they will be holding a launch event in Seattle for the HTC Droid Merge World-Phone so there is one more World-Phone [...]
In case you wanted to watch the Eric Schmidt talk from the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, it is now online and ready for your viewing pleasure. The Samsung Nexus S makes an appearance in the beginning minutes of the 45 minute talk. Speaking with John Battelle from Federated Media Publishing, and Tim O’Reilly, founder [...]
Rumors has been floating around the web about Sony Ericsson’s upcoming phone (besides the PlayStation phone of course) and that is the Anzu. We have known that it is very thin, comparable to the Galaxy S with 4.2 inch screen and an 8.1 megapixel camera, plus HDMI output. Now we have reasons to believe that [...]
Tegra 2 phones will be here sooner than you’ll realize. LG was the first to announce they are going to make Android phones with Tegra 2 and some leaks show evidence that LG already has a Tegra 2 phone, called LG Star internally. Ready to go early 2011, it will come with 1080p video recording, [...]
Google has once again updated their mobile Maps app, now sitting at version 4.7. With the new update comes a new feature called “Hotpot“, allowing users to rate, review and recommend the places they go locally. The new feature also brings with it a home screen widget to quickly perform these new functions. Google has said the goal [...]
An official announcement has been made by Entourage on the launch of the Pocket eDGe, a dual screen clamshell device running Android. The Pocket eDGe combines an “e-reader, netbook, and tablet functionalities into one device” according to the press release. The device features a 7-inch Android touchscreen and a 6-inch E-ink display. It is priced [...]
Google TV isn’t off to a great start with all networks blocking their content, but it seems Eric Schmidt is not worried at all about this. The networks’ biggest concern is that Google TV will kill their advertising revenues by being replaced by online ads, which are much less lucrative for them. Eric Schmidt thinks [...]
November 18 – the date that Verizon will be holding an event to announce the re-launch of the HTC Droid Incredible and, more impressively, the launch of the much awaited HTC Droid Merge (the Droid branding by Big Red is new). Also known as the Lexikon, the Merge was first seen back in September. However… [...]
Priceline has released their Hotel Negotiator for Android giving you the ability to bid on hotels or negotiate your price. This is perfect for those with last-minute traveling in need of a hotel. Bids can be made by star ratings, popularity, or proximity, and even book a hotel room the same day up until 11 [...]
The guys at mobilesyrup in Canada has managed to squeeze details about future update on Telus branded phone. According to James Bishop, Manager, Product Marketing; TELUS Consumer Solutions says that those users who have the following devices will be getting Android OS 2.2 shortly: Samsung Galaxy S Fascinate: early this winter – Android 2.2 LG [...]
CES 2011 is right around the corner, and with it comes plenty of new gadgets and tech. Sungale, a California-based designer and manufacturer of digital products, will be on hand to demo their new Cyberus tablets to the crowd. The Cyberus will be available in both 7 inch and 10 inch models. The 7 inch Cyberus ID708WTA [...]
You might remember the Optimus One phone from LG. It’s only being powered with 600 mhz, combining with Froyo but this phone, today, has reached a remarkable achievement. Right now, there’s a million Optimus one out there. And to add to the sweet gold medallion, is that LG only did it under 40 days and [...]
Not afraid of a fight with big time tablet makers Apple (iPad), RIM (Blackberry Playbook) and Samsung (Galaxy Tab), China-based Lenovo Group’s Chief Executive Yang Yuanqinq has expressed plans to launch the Android based tablet/keyboard combo in the US market next year. This decision came after Lenovo showed off their fancy Android UI to an [...]
Well if your up for paying €700 for a brand new Giorgio Armani branded Galaxy S phone then this is the handset for you. There is supposed to be some extra multimedia bundled with the phone but other then that it looks exactly like a Captivate. There isn’t much more to say other then check [...]
That’s right folks, just a few days after getting permanent root someone said “Hey, let’s overclock this thing.” Not only did they overclock the HTC G2, they took this 800MHz phone clear to the edge of good sense. So they finally ended up with a mind numbing 1.9GHz, over double the original specs on the [...]
Google has been rumored to be working with Motorola for the first officially-supported Android tablet. A tweet from Mobile Review Twitter account, implies that Motorola’s tablet, called MOTOPAD, will be a 7 inch tablet and it will be the first one to come with Android 3.0 and have Google’s full support. The tweet might also [...]
Looks like the fine people of Canada will finally get a chance to bring their Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 up to date with the rest of us. Rogers has started to push it out OTA and you should be receiving the notification any day now. If you don’t want to wait, check out the instructions in the [...]
Due to extremely high returns of the Tegra 2 powered Android tablet, Toshiba has halted sales of the device until they can lock down all the issues that customers seem to be having with it. A quote from UK retailer PC World states: “Due to very high return rates, we are temporarily stopping sales on [...]
Pulse News is sort of a RSS feed reader, but unlike anything you’ve ever seen before. I think it’s by far the most pleasant to use and intuitive news app on the Android platform right now. The big news today is that it’s going from paid, to free, so everyone can get it now. The [...]
Near-Field Communication. You’re going to be hearing these words, or their TLA (Three-Letter Acronym) a lot, so get used to hearing NFC and we aren’t talking National Football Conference. NFC is a way to enable mobile payments at point of sale, using your mobile phone instead of a credit card. And why should you care [...]
We were all hoping Google CEO Eric Schmidt was going to announce Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) at today’s Web 2.0 Summit. No dice folks, he did tell us that it would be released “in the next few weeks.” We did however get to see a few glimpses of Gingerbread running on Eric Schmidt’s “mystery device”. All [...]
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