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While some of you are waiting until next year to even consider a tablet, be it an Android tablet, the next iPad, Playbook, or the mysterious WebOS tablet, some of you have already jumped the gun. There aren’t too many decent Android tablets out there right now, but the ViewSonic G Tablet. It’s got innards…
Apparently it doesn’t take much to call a new smartphone an “iPhone beater” these days – or at least according to the Russians. A new Android device made by ZTE and AFK Sistema, called the A918, was presented to Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and features a GLONASS GPS system. Apparently the GPS system is 93%…
I don’t know about you, but I’d rather spend New Year’s Eve with friends or a special loved one than being packed like a sardine in New York City’s Times Square. It’s cold, there are way too many people, and the streets and subways are just jam packed with tourists making an escape nearly impossible…
Hot on the heels of Samsung’s Froyo trickery earlier this week, we see a confirmation that the Epic 4G update is “on hold” for an unknown amount of time. We’re not terribly sure when any of the U.S. Galaxy S phones will receive the OS upgrade, but it’s more than disheartening to keep having it…
From what we’ve seen so far of the Notion Ink Adam – be it the impressive hardware, or the not so impressive UI – it’s clear that the team has been hard at work making this tablet a reality. It my have taken a lot of potential buyers causing a ruckus about the lack of…
Despite the glut of competitors over the next 12 months, Caris & Co. research said the Apple iPad will still have a commanding market share in the tablet space in 2011. The report said that the Apple iPad will account for 67% of the market next year as Steve Jobs’ company still has a head…
With the rumors that Honeycomb will be Android 2.4 instead of 3.0, there’s even more evidence to confirm this now. While this can be, and has been faked, it’s beginning to look a whole new shade of real. With their Honeycomb tablet expected to debut at CES 2011, we’re wondering if Motorola will just be…
Since at least June, Android handsets have been randomly misdelivering SMS text messages to other contacts, and Google still hasn’t fixed it. The problem has even been replicated on the Samsung Nexus S, which is supposed to be a shining beacon of Android purity. One person in the ongoing Google Code thread says that the…
It’s been a huge year for Android, and one of its most anticipated versions, 2.3 Gingerbread, has finally been released in the Google Nexus S. The most die-hard Android fans have been waiting and clamoring for the latest software, but it seems that carriers aren’t too keen on picking up the device right away. Why?…
Well, maybe Steve Jobs was right when he said that Android was for porn, as an odd story out of Illinois claims that a man purchased some Coby Android tablets for his daughter on Christmas and was shocked to see one of those devices preloaded with porn. I’m guessing it was this Kyros Android tablet…