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Viewsonic’s dual booting ViewPad 100 confounds with Windows 7 and Android 1.6

September 3rd, 2010 12:37pm Lee J. No comments

Viewsonic's dual booting ViewPad 100 confounds with Windows 7 and Android 1.6

The tsunami of tablets continues, as another Android-powered challenger looks to take on Apple’s iPad, this time a shiny 10″ number from Viewsonic, christened the ViewPad 100.

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Samsung Galaxy Tab – 7″ Android-powered iPad rival gets official

September 2nd, 2010 11:46am Pete Railton No comments

Samsung Galaxy Tab - 7 inch Android-powered iPad rival gets official

Everyone knows it’s been coming, but Samsung has now officially ripped away the velvet curtain surrounding its iPad rival,  the 7-inch Android based Samsung Galaxy Tab.

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Handbags as Apple call out Google’s Android figures

September 2nd, 2010 9:15am mike s 1 comment

Handbags as Apple call out Google's Android figures

During Apple’s press launch event yesterday, Steve Jobs was doing his usual ‘big-up’ routine and bragging about the zillions of iOS devices being activated every day, adding what appeared to be a dig at their main smartphone rival, Google’s Android OS.

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Motorola Android Milestone 2 handset ready to blast out of Basingstoke

September 1st, 2010 5:13pm mike s No comments

Motorola Android Milestone 2 handset ready to blast out of Basingstoke

Hot out of buzzin’ Basingstoke, England UK is the news that Motorola’s new MILESTONE 2 Android handset is set to be unleashed on the rolling hills and beer-can cluttered urban landscapes of Blighty.

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Swype heads to Symbian S60 5th edition devices – get in quick for the beta!

September 1st, 2010 4:49pm Lee J. 1 comment

Swype heads to Symbian S60 5th edition devices - get in quick for the beta!

We’ve been absolutely loving the Swype keyboard on our HTC Desire, and Symbian S60 users are set to join in the finger smudgin’ fun with today’s announcement from Nokia that it will be coming to Symbian S60 5th edition devices.

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Palm webOS 2.0 offers even better multi-tasking and search

September 1st, 2010 9:15am mike s 1 comment

Palm webOS 2.0 offers even better multi-tasking and search

We’re huge fans of the Palm webOS interface – we still think it’s the best mobile operating system out there, bar none, even if the platform is woefully short of apps – so we’re  very interested to hear details of the next generation OS coming up, webOS 2.0.

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Viewsonic Android ViewPad 7 tablet heading to the UK for £350

August 31st, 2010 12:32pm Lee J. 1 comment

Viewsonic Android ViewPad 7 tablet heading to the UK for £350

Viewsonic has grabbed a megaphone, jumped up on its soapbox made from old monitors and barked out the news to the denizens of Blighty, “Hear Ye! The ViewPad 7 is coming your way!”

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Samsung shifts one million Galaxy S Android smartphones in the US

August 30th, 2010 10:30am mike s No comments

Samsung shifts one million Galaxy S Android smartphones in the US

Samsung has announced that consumers are feeling the love for their Android Galaxy S smartphones in a big way, with the company shifting no less than one million of ‘em since July 15th.
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Orange HTC Desire – Froyo delayed until mid-Sept, less junk included

August 27th, 2010 6:09pm mike s No comments

Orange HTC Desire - Froyo update delayed until mid-September

HTC Desire owners on the UK Orange network are likely to be disappointed at the news that they’re not going to get the eagerly anticipated Android OS update until the middle of September.

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Dell disappoints with duff Aero Android US smartphone

August 25th, 2010 10:54am mike s No comments

Dell disappoints with Aero Android smartphone US release

Dell has released its first Android-powered smartphone in the US, following on from the recent release of its Streak Android tablet.

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Angry Birds hit game flies into the Palm webOS App Catalog

August 25th, 2010 9:45am mike s No comments

Angry Birds game arrives on Palm's webOS

The lack of top notch apps in Palm’s webOS platform has proved to be a bitter disappointment to Palm Pre and Pixi users, with UK users being hit particularly hard (the Brit App Catalogue is a pale shadow of the US one, with just 2,800 apps on offer and many of them pretty unexciting).

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Samsung Galaxy Tab Android tablet gets teaser video

August 24th, 2010 9:04pm mike s No comments

Samsung Galaxy Tab Android tablet gets teaser video

Hurtling along so fast that if you blink you’ll miss a detail or two, this new new teaser video from Samsung gives a fleeting glimpse into their new Galaxy Tab Android powered tablet.

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iPhone Google Mobile app gets push notifications

August 23rd, 2010 8:06pm Lee J. No comments

iPhone Google Mobile app for gets push notifications

Google has announced that their Google Mobile App for Apple’s iPhone has been upgraded to be push notification compliant.

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Mobile phone photo tips and tricks using HTC Desire and Vignette app

August 23rd, 2010 10:30am mike s 1 comment

Android Vignette app + HTC Desire = awesome photo shooting combo

After enthusing wildly about the photographic capabilities of the HTC Desire’s built in camera combined with the superb Vignette photo processing app, we thought we’d show you some more results – and hand over a few tips.

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Mappiness iPhone apps aims to find out how happy Brits are

August 21st, 2010 10:45am Tony Fletcher No comments

Mappiness iPhone apps aims to find out how happy Brits are

A new research project at the London School of Economics has spawned an interesting iPhone app called ‘mappiness which aims to chart personal happiness.

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