Engadget got their hands on a Best Buy ad that although has a couple of spelling errors and the tablet looks more like a 16:9 ratio than 16:10 (too long), it shows a $799 price tag for the Motorola Xoom tablet, along with a mention of the data plans that start at $20 per month for 1 GB and up ... Read More »
Matias Duarte and his team have worked for almost a year to improve the design of Android, and I think they did everything they could in this timeframe to make Android not only optimized for tablets and as intuitive as possibe, but also very cool looking. This is very important in making fans love the Android tablets, but it’s even ... Read More »
The rumors are adding up, and soon we might find out that Nokia is going to switch to Microsoft’s WP7. This goes back to when Nokia hired Mr. Elop to be its CEO. Elop was a Microsoft executive before this, and many people have speculated that they simply want a North American CEO to increase Nokia’s market share in USA, ... Read More »
The tablet industry has gone a long way and this is evidence that people will embrace such technology. In fact the sales are booming for these devices with Apple’s IPad leading the race. Google’s android OS and their tablets will be a major competitor for IPad in 2011, and it is expected that the market dominance by Apple will gradually ... Read More »
Yesterday at the Honeycomb event, some bloggers got to demo some Xoom units, and also interview the game developers that were there, presenting their stuff. The consensus among the developers seemed to be that Tegra 2 is so powerful that it has allowed them to port their PS3 games completely to the Tegra 2 Android tablet. If that isn’t surprinsing ... Read More »
There’s a rumor over at AndroidAndMe, that says that HTC is going to launch a new 4.3″ phone on T-mobile, called HTC Pyramid and it’s coming with Qualcomm’s dual core 1.2 Ghz CPU and Adreno 220 GPU. This will probably make some people excited as they are looking forward to get a dual core phone from HTC, but I’m not ... Read More »
The rumored Google Music cloud service and the promised web based Android Market will be announced tomorrow at the Honeycomb event, according to yet another rumor. It’s been almost a year since the web based Market was promised at Google I/O last year, but at least it’s finally coming, and from what I’ve heard about the Google Music service, it ... Read More »
It wasn’t long ago when Garner, the research company, said that by the end of 2014 Symbian will have 31% market share and Android 29%, and predicted that soon after that, Android will surpass Symbian. When they made the prediction Android had 17% market share, while Symbian had 40%. Well, it looks like Android has already surpassed Symbian. Read More »
Rovio, the company behind Angry Birds has said that it plans to turn Angry Birds into a whole franchise, one as big as Super Mario. They have over 75 million downloads of Angry Birds to date, and they’ve already expanded in the physical world with toys and such. Their next big move is a to launch a movie, and this ... Read More »
Motorola Xoom will be launched by the end of next month, and Google has already released the Honeycomb Preview SDK so developers can start making changes to their apps, so they work well and look good on the upcoming Honeycomb tablets. But we still know very little about Honeycomb and what’s in it, so Google is inviting everyone to their ... Read More »