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.
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.
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.
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.
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!”
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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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.
Dell has released its first Android-powered smartphone in the US, following on from the recent release of its Streak Android tablet.
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.
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.
Like a lot of UK Android HTC Desire users, we’re busting a gut to get our hands on the latest ‘Froyo’ update and upgrade our handsets to the latest v2.2 Android operating system.
Although users of unbranded HTC Desire handsets have been able to update their phones already, folks with branded phones have to wait for the the official versions to be released from their prospective networks.
Just spotted strutting into the UK Argos catalogue is Philips’ new GoGear Connect portable media player, a fully-featured Android-powered device available in 8GB and 16GB flavours.
The problem with having a cool smartphone that can do lots of cool things is the temptation to immediately install lots of cool apps – and then stand back in horror as the battery level heads for zero in double quick time.
Admitting that they’ve been serving up, “a certain lack of love and attention,” the team at Evernote are hoping that Android users are the forgiving kind as they attempt to woo them with a series of gift wrapped updates.
Android emerged the big winner as global worldwide smartphone sales soared 50 per cent during the second quarter, according to the bean counters at Gartner.
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