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Microsoft is painting the licensing agreement with Samsung regarding Android as a positive sign of how intellectual property can drive innovation and collaboration. Google sees it a different way: it said that Microsoft is resorting to extortion. In a message e-mailed to the press, Google said: This is the same tactic we’ve seen time and…
Samsung is on fire with its product line and has easily become the king of Android when it comes to handsets and offered up one of the only worthwhile Android tablets, until just recently. With the Galaxy S II already a hit, we really like what Samsung is doing with its products and the Galaxy…
MetroPCS has just announced its latest device, the LG Esteem. The Esteem will be the newest 4G LTE-enabled smartphone added to the MetroPCS line-up that’ll pack the most recent Android OS, Gingerbread 2.3. This is sure to be one of the company’s best high-end devices on the roster. Specs of the LTE LG Esteem will…
Amazon announced this morning four new Kindle products: Kindle Fire, Kindle Touch 3G, Kindle Touch and Kindle. The latter three are your average e-ink readers with six-inch screens, but they’re a little more sleek than previous Kindle models. They’re made with magnesium and soft-touch plastics, so they feel sleek. Amazon kept pushing its “premium products…
Today, Amazon has announced some sexy, cheap tablets, and one of them, the Kindle Fire, is running a new browser called Silk. It’s using Amazon’s extensive Web Services servers to do the bulk of the heavy lifting with CSS and JavaScript so the tablet doesn’t have to. Amazon is claiming 5 ms latency, versus the…
Amazon finally made the Kindle Fire Android tablet official this morning and we were able to get our hands on this Android-powered tablet. While there are some features that are missing that some may be disappointed with – namely the camera – the Kindle Fire is a very nice-looking tablet that should move a ton…
We all knew it was coming, but it’s now official: Amazon has just announced the Kindle Fire, its first tablet computer. The Kindle Fire is an Android tablet that doesn’t look like your average, well, Android tablet. It’s skinned down to the bone, so you’ll never actually see the home screens or menus like you…
We’re here live in New York and seeing what Amazon has in store for us. The company is widely expected to show off its first media tablet and this could be the first credible competitor to the Apple iPad. Previous reports suggested this will carry the Kindle brand name but we’re not 100 percent certain…
Motorola’s Droid Bionic, announced back in January at the Consumer Electronic Show and then released 8 months later, is an amazing device, but it’ll quickly be forgotten once the next generation of Android superphones come out in late Q4 2011 and 1H 2012. That being said, the Bionic does bring something to the table that…
Google and HTC have started rolling out the Android 2.3.6 update for the original Google phone – Nexus One. The main bug this release addresses is the random start of the Voice Search application, something many users have complained about. In addition, I guess there are also some other under the hood improvements that should…