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Just when you think there are no more TouchPads available, more begin to pop out of nowhere. It turns out HP is giving registered devs in the US, Canada and Europe the opportunity to get their hands on a 32 GB HP TouchPad on the cheap for just $150, for a limited time and while supplies last. This…
Motorola Mobility is working on bringing a unique experience that is tailored for your living room or area. This experience includes a 6-inch Android 2.3 slate dubbed as the “Corvair,” which crosses television, tablet and smartphone in one group. The Corvair carries IR control and RF4CE, which allows you to turn this thing into a remote…
Android once again proved its continuing dominance in the U.S. mobile market with 45 percent of all smartphones nationwide according to Internet marketing research company comScore. Android closed out September with 44.8 percent market share, up 4.6 percentage points since June 2011. The only company to show any improvement during that same period in time was Apple’s iOS, which…
It looks like the Samsung Galaxy Nexus is going to hit shelves a lot sooner then we all thought. A leaked Verizon road map suggests a November 21 “web only” launch date for the next big Android handset. This news comes after reports first suggested a launch on the 10th then that date switched to a Nov.…
We have some great news for you AT&T customers out in NYC. It turns out Ma Bell is rolling out its LTE service “very soon,” says Larry Solomon, SVP of communications for AT&T. This news broke today when the executive spoke at Mashable’s Media Summit, but no further information was shared about the roll out. New York…
The Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus is currently available on Amazon and it’s a much improved and updated version to its predecessor. This puts the Galaxy Tab count up to a handful of slates, only if you consider the Galaxy Note a tablet. This news is after Samsung announced the Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus to…
The Nielsen survey company has collected some pretty solid numbers obtained through its third quarter study, which validate Android as the top dog among smartphone operating systems. In the research study, 43 percent of people polled claimed they owned a smartphone and the same percentage of users reported owning an Android device. This should come to no…
The patent war between Samsung and Apple intensifies with investigation under way over in Europe. The South Korean-based manufacturer has been trying to impede the selling of all Apple devices in Europe including the recently-launched iPhone 4s. This is all for naught, because the 3G patent complaints have flagged an antitrust investigation by Europe’s top competition…
Amazon’s upcoming Kindle Fire is being scrutinized by the folks over at Apple. The Cupertino-based company think Amazon’s $200 Android powered tablet will actually help spur more iPad growth because “it introduces another level of fragmentation in the Android platform.” This is just a little surprising, after estimated pre-order sales that suggest that the Kindle…
Well, this didn’t take long. The Android community never seems to fail when it comes to amazing us, it turns out that one wily enthusiast has already developed a root solution for the Samsung Galaxy Nexus once it releases. The way the “Superboot” program works is once a user installs it, a specialized boot image to the Galaxy…