Posted on 13 February 2011
It’s not been long since the Galaxy Tab first hit retail stores however Samsung have wasted no time in announcing their next tablet device, the Galaxy Tab 10.1. If the name doesn’t give it away, Samsung’s latest Android tablet sports a 10.1” display, is powered by a 1GHz Tegra 2 core and of course runs [...]
Tags: android, galaxy tab, galaxy tab 10.1, honeycomb, mwc, mwc 2011, samsung
Posted on 02 February 2011
Today Google officially launched a new version of their Android Market website at a press conference hosted at their Mountain View based headquarters. The new website offers a fully featured Android Market experience with the ability to browse, purchase and download new applications direct to your Android device. The new website is expected to be [...]
Tags: android, android market, androidmarket, honeycombevent
Posted on 01 February 2011
Google confirmed last Friday that they are hosting a press event on Wednesday to discuss their upcoming Android Honeycomb release and share some details on the future of the Android ecosystem. While manufacturers have already detailed their upcoming Honeycomb powered devices at CES in Vegas, Google have yet to share any detailed information about Honeycomb [...]
Tags: android, android market, androidmarket, honeycomb, market
Posted on 08 January 2011
With an incoming surge of Tegra dual-core Android tablets and phones hitting the market Nvidia have made the move to highlight Tegra optimised games. To do this they have created a new Android app called Tegra Zone that will soon be available via the Android Market. Tegra Zone will launch highlighting several games including Dungeon [...]
Tags: android, android market, games, nvidia, tegra, tegra 2
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
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 04 January 2011
Vic Gundotra, VP of Engineering for Google, explained at Google I/O last May that Google intend to deliver a whole lot more than just applications on the Android Market by demonstrating a Android music download service. It seems Google don’t plan on stopping with just music downloads as a recent report in The Wall Street [...]
Tags: amazon, android, google, google news, kindle, news, tablet
Posted on 04 January 2011
Days before CES officially kicks off Toshiba have announced their Honeycomb tablet offering, or at least demonstrated the hardware. Similar to Toshiba’s previous Android tablet, the Folio, it’s powered by the Tegra 2 platform however it has been given a much needed makeover with a higher resolution 1280 x 800 10.1” display, 5 megapixel rear [...]
Tags: android, honeycomb, tablet, toshiba
Posted on 02 January 2011
If you thought waiting for the latest Android update was the only issue your phone has, think again. A bug that was reported to Google last June that makes Android send SMS messages to the wrong recipient still appears to be impacting a vast number of users. When sending SMS the Android messaging client will [...]
Tags: android, android bug, android security, android sms, security, sms