Samsung announced its latest tablet, the 7-inch Galaxy Tab 2.The tablet has a 1 GHz dual-core processor and runs Android 4.0 aka “Ice Cream Sandwich.” It will be available in 3G and WiFi versions in Europe from March, starting with the UK market.”Samsung’s playing all over the board,” Tom Mainelli, a research director at IDC. [...]
When Motorola rebooted its iconic Razr brand last November with the debut of the remarkably svelte Droid Razr, we fell in love with its looks. Like the iconic, massively popular Razr V3 flip-phone released just seven years ago, the Droid Razr was sexy and slim.But then Motorola pulled back the curtain on its next Razr [...]
Vimeo (Free – iOS, Android) Vimeo has always been second fiddle to YouTube. Yet, Vimeo does attract a more professional grade of videographer and often the contents of Vimeo are much more polished than the much uploaded to YouTube from millions of would-be Internet stars. Vimeo finally has a new app for iOS and Android [...]
Google is launching a paid cloud storage service called “Drive,” five years after they first came up with the idea.Google Drive will let consumers store documents, photographs and videos on Google’s servers for sharing and easy accessibility from any Web-connected device.It is expected to be free for most consumers and businesses, but Google will charge [...]
Google got inspired from movies like “Iron Man” and “The Terminator” for designing one of its upcoming products: Eyewear that displays data and information to the wearer.The Internet giant’s glasses are in the late prototype stage,Google claims.It will run on Android, connect to the Internet, include a global positioning system and double as a phone. [...]
After using the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 , I’m thoroughly impressed with the small slate. U.S consumers will see a version with LTE for Verizon’s LTE network in the near future, but I hope that the Wi-Fi version would be priced less than an full-cost LTE version and wouldn’t require a lengthy data contract.The Galaxy [...]
Google announced a new layer of security for its Android Market on Yesterday, a program called “Bouncer” that will automatically scan apps and developer accounts for malware. Bouncer works by analyzing each app as it is uploaded to the Market, scans for threats, spyware and trojans. It also takes a look at developer accounts to [...]
Apple’s iPhone 4S is incredibly popular with consumers, so much so that it’s eating heavily into Android’s market share among those who’ve purchased smartphones within the past three months. Apple’s market share among recent smartphone buyers in the U.S. rose from 25.1 percent in October to 44.5 percent in December, while Android’s fell from 61.6 [...]
Yestersay I captured video of a Fujitsu handset running on the Nvidia Tegra 3 processor. From the looks of it, this phone’s performance will rival that of the Asus Transformer Prime tablet. Fujitsu doesn’t target the U.S. market. However, Sascha’s video gives us an idea of what to expect from the Mobile World Congress show [...]
Google introduced a new Android Design site which aims at helping developers learn the principles and best practices for building awesome apps.It is the first style guide ever introduced for Android, will feature a load of documents for educating developers on styles, patterns and building blocks that go into world-class apps.It was launched after the [...]