Posted on 06 January 2011
Motorola is stepping up it’s game with a powerful new Droid phone, the Droid Bionic. This is Motorola’s first 4G phone that will take advantage of Verizon’s LTE 4G service. This powerful new Droid sports a dual-core 1GHz CPU and Motorola claims that it’ll be able to record and edit 720p HD video directly on [...]
Tags: 4g, ces2011, motorola, motorola droid, motorola droid bionic, verizon, verizon droid, verizon wireless, verizon wireless lte
Posted on 06 January 2011
As promised, here’s the video over view of the Viliv X7 Android Tablet. Key feature here is the big, 21wh battery and of course, that good quality Viliv engineering. They are ‘targeting’ $399 with 3G but we’ll have to re-visit that nearler launch in March/April Tweet
Tags: android, tablet, viliv, viliv x7
Posted on 06 January 2011
My first hands on with the Dell Duo deserves a little post. Yes it’s a little heavy as a tablet and has battery life that doesnt compete with netbooks but its a slick device. With the Samsung Gloria/PC7 on Oaktrail already, it could have some tough competition. Tweet
Tags: Dell duo, netbook, pinetrail
Posted on 06 January 2011
One of the hardest things to keep track of this week is all the key features of each device. There are a tone of 7 and 10″ devices but what are the unique selling points! Viliv hae gone for battery life and although the X7 isn’t the thinnest out there, it’s light and has a [...]
Posted on 06 January 2011
Surprising me as I wander the Nvidia stand is the Dell Streak 7. Clearly on Tegra 2 and looking nice, it’s yet another high end 7″ Android tablet. I’ve got a video that ill prepare later. This one is running 2.2 with a Dell user interface and what looks like 8gb of storage. The key [...]
Tags: android. Tegra 2, dell streak
Posted on 06 January 2011
I just walked past this. Definitely need to go back to the Marvell stand but its time to hit Viliv first. Tweet
Tags: marvell, tablet
Posted on 06 January 2011
Capacative touchscreen. Oaktrail, Windows 7, 2GB, fingerprint readera and looking like it’s aimed more toward prosumer and business/vertical markets. No product name at the moment. Should be coming to market in 1-2 months. Tweet
Tags: Fujitsu
Posted on 06 January 2011
While Meego on Moorestown is an interesting story, I bet the combination of Android on X86 raises more eyes. We’re at the Intel booth and Gemtech are showing the Zeus some tablet. Not much information here although I did speak to a representative who tells us it is being test by carriers right now and [...]
Tags: android, CES, froyo, moorestown
Posted on 06 January 2011
The Honeycomb news isn’t stopping today. I’m actually surprised that we haven’t seen a formal new release from Google yet! Details are likely to come out in the next few hours for the G-Slate but for the time being, at least we know it’s real. Not much to see of the device in the video [...]
Tags: android, g-slate, honeycomb, lg, tablet
Posted on 06 January 2011
At the Motorola Press conference, live now, the Xoom is about to launch has launched. The press pics and specs are below. “The MOTOROLA XOOM is the world’s first tablet with a dual-core processor and Android 3.0 (Honeycomb).” Specs: 5MP camera, webcam 1GB RAM HD camcorder 4G option, dual core cpu (Tegra) 10.1″, 1280×800 screen [...]
Tags: android, honeycomb, motorola, tablet, xoom
Posted on 06 January 2011
The Engadget team got some quality time with a working Notion Ink tablet this morning and their report sreavels some good details about the performance, buid, screen and software. One of the key features is the PixelQi screen which Engadget report to have good viewing angles, great sunlight reading characteristics but a slightly washed-out color [...]
Tags: android, notion ink, tablet, tegra
Posted on 05 January 2011
Google have just released a video demonstrating Android 3.0 on the Android Developers Youtube page however it appears to have been accidental as the video has just been pulled. Fortunately Engadget managed to get another copy of the video and It shows a version of Android that is like nothing we have seen before. It’s [...]
Tags: android, ces2011, honeycomb
Posted on 05 January 2011
Intel have scored a hit for their AppUp store. If you’ve got a netbook you can download it via the AppUp store. I’ve tested it and it’s working really nicely. I’ll be doing more ‘testing’ as soon as I can! This is the sort of application that will start to attract attention for AppUp and [...]
Tags: angry birds, appup, intel, netbook, touchscreen
Posted on 05 January 2011
Motorola Atrix 4G Laptop Dock Originally uploaded by nvidia.corporation Look at that picture! A lot of us have been talking about this sort of docking for years but we’re not getting to the point in time where the mobile phone is becoming the central processing unit. The CPU! The nvidia press conference is happening now. [...]
Posted on 05 January 2011
Viliv has lifted the embargo on some press renders of their upcoming Android tablets, the X7 and X10. We’ve seen quality built products from Viliv in the past so we’re quite excited to get out hands on the their first attempts at the Android Slate space. This isn’t Viliv’s first foray with Android however; they’ve [...]
Tags: ces2011
Posted on 05 January 2011
Today at CES LG have gone official with their latest Android smartphone. It sports a 4-inch NOVA display which LG claim is “the brightest, clearest and most readable” mobile screen available, promising to be extremely bright while at the same time being more power efficient than both LCD and AMOLED mobile screens. If the name [...]
Tags: android, android 2.2, ces2011, froyo, gingerbread, lg, smartphone
Posted on 05 January 2011
Chippy is working hard over at CES 2011 and yesterday live blogged the Asus press conference in which Asus announced four new tablets. Eee Slate EP121 [product tracking] The Eee Slate is the only Windows based product of the bunch but comes packed with a 1.33Ghz Intel Core i5-470UM processor, 2 or 4GB’s of memory [...]
Tags: android 3.0, asus, eee pad, eee slate, tablet