Today, Google has released the Preview SDK for Android 3.0 so developers can start working on their tablet apps. This is something I’ve been hoping that it would be released before the Motorola Xoom tablet will be on the market, and here’s why. Maybe not many people remember it now, but when the iPad was announced last year in January, ... Read More »
HTC has been a very innovative phone manufacturer until now. They’ve always tried to push things forward and be the first to do something. They were the first with a 3G phone and the first with a 4G phone, and also let’s not forget they were the first with a 1 Ghz Android phone. It looks like it might not ... Read More »
OLED-info has uncovered a “leaked” promo video and a list of specs for the next-gen Galaxy Tab from Samsung. The specs look insane, at least if you think that they are coming with a $500-$600 price tag. The specs look so unreal you’d think this tablet will cost at least double that. Here is the promo video and the spec ... Read More »
It looks like we are getting more and more interesting rumors about the Motorola Xoom lately. The latest one is a document leak that shows that Xoom will be launched on February 17th, which is believable considering that Motorola said the Xoom would come in February. What, I don’t particulary like so much is the rumored $800 price, which seems ... Read More »
It’s been a month and a half since Nexus S appeared on the market. Every Nexus One user expected to get Android 2.3 on their phones just days after that, but that didn’t happen. After all this time Google hasn’t ported Android 2.3 to Nexus One, and they keep releasing new updates to both phones, but the Nexus One remains ... Read More »
I think it’s to be expected and it makes sense that Android for phones and Android for tablets should be the same version, just function slightly different because of the screen size. At the end of the day, phones are tablets and tablets are phones. they have the same form factor and they have the same components. It’s just that ... Read More »
Quadrant has been the most popular benchmark tool for quite a while now, even though it’s been obvious for a while that it’s a flawed benchmark tool that tended to give higher score to Snapdragon chips, and lower to others. I think this has been very detrimental to many people who believed, for example, that the Adreno 205 GPU in ... Read More »
It looks like Europeans will get there hands on the first dual core Tegra 2 phone as early a February 25th, for a price that is significantly lower than the 550 euro price that was originally rumored. New rumors say the price will be 484euro (3,599 Danish kroner) or $653. The price may sound a little too expensive for Americans, ... Read More »
This is another big win for the ARM chip architecture. After recently finding out that Microsoft is willing to break its app legacy just so they can move to the ARM platform, now we learn that another huge company in the tech industry is partnering with ARM to manufacturer 14 nm chips for them. This is yet another big blow ... Read More »
A lot of people are saying that you can’t have true games on a touchscreen phone until you have game-pad like buttons and controllers. Sony wants to try its luck in the Android smartphone market with exactly that – an Android smartphone, specifically made for gaming. Read More »