Latest rumors say that Amazon has some Android developer jobs open, and they are hiring these developers to help them build an Android based Kindle. I don’t think they are hiring these developers specifically to start building an Android Kindle, because I believe they are almost close to release such a Kindle. Read More »
I’ve mentioned before that HTC will soon fall behind if they don’t use other chips besides Qualcomm’s, because Qualcomm itself is falling behind Nvidia and others, and they’ve always been behind in graphics performance with Adreno GPU. Some benchmarks tests made with Smartbench 2011, which I believe is the best and most accurate overall benchmarking tool in the market right ... Read More »
I keep hearing that the tablet market will be different *this time* because iPad is more like an iPod than a phone, or that Apple’s store is a huge advantage over competitors. I think those assumptions will be proven wrong within a year or so. Read More »
Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 must be coming soon, because some people in France have already gotten the tablet in their hands and they’ve done a nice little hands-on video that’s shows many of the things this tablet can do, while playing nice music in the background. The Galaxy Tab 10.1 is coming with a Tegra 2 chip, 1280×800 resolution display, ... Read More »
One of Motorola Xoom’s most touted features was support for Flash, so it came as a little disappointing when they said that Flash won’t be available until at least few weeks after launch. It made the tablet seem rushed (among other things) and it also made Adobe look bad by moving so slow to provide an update for Honeycomb. Read More »
In recent news today, on the Tegra Zone portal, Nvidia has announced that PS Suite games will arrive to Tegra devices. This means that all new games made for the PS Suite game framework will work on Tegra devices, along side all the optimized Tegra Zone games, but they are also expecting not only PS1 games, but also PS2 games ... Read More »
Toshiba has promised to make a great Android tablet that can run Flash very well, while being powered by an Nvidia Tegra 2 chip, before. But it seems they really mean business as they are saying their tablet will even surpass iPad 2 (not much to surpass there feature wise, except for thinness and weight). Read More »
Google Voice is a great service used by millions of Americans that is mostly used for transferring calls, free text messages and voicemails. But I’ve always thought that adding VOIP to it would make perfect sense and make it live up to its own name of Google “Voice” by letting you talk through it without needing a carrier. So how ... Read More »
RIM has been #1 in total smartphone subscribers for a long time in USA. Android has grown from a few percentage points to 31% in a little over a year, even surpassing RIM, which dropped about 5% from a year ago, while Apple remained stable at close to 25%. So what does Android taking leadership mean for RIM and Apple? Read More »
Asus made their first Android netbook a couple of years ago, but unfortunately for them, it wasn’t such a big success. By then people expected netbooks to be mini-laptops, which means they wanted nothing else but Windows on them. Plus, back then, Android didn’t even look that good on smartphones, let alone on a laptop. So why is Asus having ... Read More »