Articles Tagged Android
Sony Unveils the Xperia S at CES
One of the first smartphones to be released after Sony’s buyout of Ericsson, the Sony Xperia S is definitely heading in a slightly new direction when it comes to style. This simplistically beautiful device comes in both black and white and boasts a 1280x720 4.3 inch display. Yes, that’s a 4.3 inch 720p HD screen for anyone who was wondering.
Toshiba Excite X10 Tab Coming Soon
Toshiba’s new Excite X10 tablet is on its way and with it reportedly comes the title of Thinnest and Lightest 10-inch tablet measuring in at just 8mm thick. Hardware-wise the Excite X10 isn’t skimping out. A 1.2GHz dual-core processor accompanied by 1GB of RAM should be enough to keep it in line with most of the competition for now, as will it’s shipping with Honeycomb 3.2. Although there is a chance we could see a release delay in order for Toshiba to upgrade that to Android 4.0.
White Galaxy Nexus Coming to the UK
The Samsung Galaxy Nexus has already seen some pretty widespread popularity across the mobile market, making up a generous percentage of the 0.6% of Android handsets to currently run Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS). Now, come February 6th, it’s going to be available in white for UK customers.
3.7 Mil Android Devices for Christmas
Andy Rubin, Senior Vice President of Mobile at Google, announced via his Twitter than over 3.7 million Android devices were activated over last Christmas weekend. This is a huge boost over normal, but already impressive number of daily Android activations that currently sits at around 700 thousand new units per day.
Galaxy Ace Plus Announced
Continuing in the long line of confusingly similarly named handsets is Samsung’s recently announced Galaxy Ace Plus. As is inferred by the moniker, the Galaxy Ace Plus is the newest model in the Galaxy Ace line. If you’re unfamiliar with the original Samsung Galaxy Ace, it’s basically a budget option of the more popular Samsung Galaxy S product line for folks who don’t feel the need to spend top dollar on a new smartphone, but still don’t want last-year’s model.
HTC Sensation XE Review
The HTC Sensation XE is one of HTC’s current leading devices, offering a similar yet enhanced experience than the original HTC Sensation. Some of the differences between the two devices are obvious due to the very nature of the XE, such as Beats Audio integration or its faster processor, and some are less obvious, even unexpected.
Google Pauses Nexus S ICS Updates
Google recently announced that the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update would be rolling out to Google Nexus S devices over the course of the next month. That rollout has now apparently been put on hold in some areas while Google collects and monitors feedback.
Sony Tablet S Gets PS3 Controller
Sony’s released what sounds like a pretty simple, yet clever update for its PlayStation certified tablet: the Sony Tablet S. Continuing in the traditions of the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play, the Sony Tablet S has access to the PlayStation Sore via Android. That means movies, games and more. Up until now those games could only be enjoyed in a very limited fashion, as on-screen controllers are usually pretty difficult to handle when compared to the real deal. Now Tablet S users will be able to get that full PS game experience right on their tablets.
British Telecom Suing Google
British Telecom (BT) has become the latest in a long line of companies to lunch a law suit against Google. Last Thursday in Delaware, BT filed a suit claiming that Google was infringing upon over six of its patents. After Google’s acquisition of Motorola Mobility things seemed to calm down just a tiny bit in the legal wars, so we hope this isn’t an indication of a continuance of hostilities.
Ice Cream Sandwich Soon for Nexus S
Google recently announced an official rollout of Android 4.0, Ice Cream Sandwich, to GSM/UMTS versions of the popular Google Nexus S over the coming month via its Google+ account. The speedy availability of the update is a positive indication of what we hope to become a future trend across Android devices. Google hopes that Ice Cream Sandwich will be the version of Android to herald in a new era of reduced fragmentation of Android versions across numerous devices. Basically what that means is that from Ice Cream Sandwich onwards it will apparently be easier for manufacturers to update their devices, allowing companies like Samsung or HTC to release Android updates much faster than they have previously been able to.
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