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Acer has just launched the world’s first 7 inch Android Honeycomb tablet – the Acer Iconia A100. Featuring virtually everything comparable 10 inch Honeycomb tablets offer, only in a smaller and cheaper package, Acer may have quite a hit on its hands. The Acer Iconia Tab 100 comes with all the features you’d expect in…
It’s a beautiful Friday and there isn’t too much going on in the mobile land right now, so I thought this would be a great opportunity to find out what apps you wonderful readers are digging lately. Since switching to the iPhone, I’ve been on a real app kick where I’m engaging with these programs…
While it seems like it’s taken forever, the Samsung Galaxy S II will soon be announced for the US. Samsung has begun sending out invitations for an event in New York City on August 29th. Given that there’s a large, “II” at the bottom of the invitation, there’s little debate as to what the announcement…
Rovio is hoping to turn Angry Birds into the next Mario and the company is looking to raise funds at a valuation of about $1.2 billion, according to a report in Bloomberg. Rovio had previously raised $42 million but it appears like it needs more cash to expand. On its ambitious schedule is a full-featured…
Starting from August 14th, Target will offer the Acer Iconia A500 for $399 along with a free $100 Target Gift Card, effectively making the price $299. That’s a pretty good deal for the full-fledged Android Honeycomb tablet which specs include a 10.1-inch 1280×800 pixels touchscreen, dual-core 1GHz NVidia Tegra 2 processor, 1GB of RAM, 16GB…
Thus far Google Movies aka Videos app was only available for select Honeycomb tablets. Then we’ve noticed that some Samsung Galaxy Tab users spotted a new Videos tab on the Android Market, and now the search giant’s video renting service is available to pretty much any Android smartphone user, presuming his or her device runs…
Motorola has finally started rolling out Android 3.1 updates for its Xoom tablet. The keyword here is “started” — just because some people you know already got it, it doesn’t mean you’ll get the update on the same day too. Quite the contrary, the launch will go “in stages”. Here’s what the company said at…
London-based developer Tamlyn made a neat Android-powered toy which some of us would gladly take for a ride. Made out of an existing RC powered tank, everything but the drive assembly and power supply was removed and replaced with an Android smartphone and the so called inexpensive IOIO (pronounced yo-yo) board to control the circuitry…
It may not be much to go on but we have finally managed to catch a glimpse of Google’s latest version of the Android operating system, Ice Cream Sandwich. Unfortunately, the screens don’t show much but at least it’s something. Coming from AndroidPolice and RootzWiki, each site has manged to get their very own shots…
You didn’t think that Samsung would be stopping at the Galaxy S 2 this year, did you? Apparently the Android giant’s roadmap has leaked for the year, and it looks like we’re due for quite a few interesting devices. From big to small screens, from Android to Windows Phone, Samsung looks to be covering its…