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Acer A510/A511 Tegra 3 Android tablet confirmed

While the first quad-core tablet has yet to hit the streets, it looks like companies have started announcing their interest in joining the party. Today it was discovered that Acer will be releasing an Android tablet packing the quad-core Tegra 3 processor due to a pair of User Agent Profile specifications posted on its official [...]

[ More ] November 14th, 2011 | No Comments | Posted in Industry |

Amazon Kindle tablet due in November for $250, report claims

Amazon’s first Android tablet will launch this coming November at a price point significantly below Apple’s entry-level iPad 2, TechCrunch reported on Friday. According to the site, which claims to have handled a prototype of the device, the Amazon tablet bears a strong resemblance to RIM’s BlackBerry PlayBook and it runs a highly customized pre-Honeycomb [...]

[ More ] September 5th, 2011 | No Comments | Posted in Industry |

HTC Kingdom specs leak; to be called Acquire/EVO Design 4G?

The HTC Kingdom, an Android phone that has been motioned quite a long time ago, has had it specs leaked again recently, and might be making an appearance at the HTC event in London next week (along with the rumored Windows Phone Mango devices). The phone is also said to be called the HTC Acquire [...]

[ More ] August 25th, 2011 | No Comments | Posted in Cellphones |

Amazon plans to stream movies to own-branded tablets, researchers claim

Amazon has plans to offer a streaming movie service tied to its forthcoming own-branded tablets, researchers at Detwiler Fenton claim. According to the research team, Amazon’s streaming movie service will be available to early adopters of Amazon’s tablet for free. The revelation seems obvious, but the Boston-based research firm’s claim could be the first well-sourced [...]

[ More ] June 14th, 2011 | No Comments | Posted in Industry |

Samsung Galaxy S II for AT&T makes an appearance

Holding out for arguably the best Android device in the world to finally hit AT&T? Well, it’s coming. We don’t know exactly when, but thanks to an international Samsung Facebook page, the Samsung Galaxy S II for AT&T looks like it has been updated to the carrier’s specifications, sporting four Android menu keys and styling [...]

[ More ] June 13th, 2011 | No Comments | Posted in Cellphones |

Danger Sidekick service ends today for all users, bye bye data, bye bye AppleTech

It’s been a long time coming, but the day is finally here. At the end of tonight, the servers that made your Sidekick devices so great — that insanely addictive push email, one of the best AIM experiences, one of the first app stores, and more — will be shut down for good. Since the [...]

[ More ] June 1st, 2011 | No Comments | Posted in Gadgets |

T-Mobile’s HTC Sensation 4G may land on June 8th

According to a purported internal screenshot obtained by TmoNews, T-Mobile may launch the HTC Sensation 4G on June 8th. We fell in love with the Sensation 4G in early April during our hands-on. It has a rock-solid aluminum uni-body design, is powered by a dual-core 1.2GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, has a 4.3-inch 960 x 520 [...]

[ More ] May 17th, 2011 | No Comments | Posted in Cellphones |

Xperia PLAY game sales have been unimpressive

According to a report by CVG, Android Market downloads of games specifically designed to run on Sony Ericsson’s Xperia PLAY handset have been extremely low. As evidence in its case, the report hones in on five Play titles that all have under 1,000 total Market downloads: Cool Boarders 2, 100–500; Destruction Derby, 500–1,000; Jumping Flash, [...]

[ More ] May 16th, 2011 | No Comments | Posted in Gadgets |

LG Optimus Black to launch in UK next week

LG has confirmed with Pocket-Lint that the Optimus Black — announced during CES as “the world’s thinnest smartphone”– will make its debut in the UK next week. Carrier partners are currently unknown, but this is definitely a device worth getting excited about. It packs LG’s colorful and crisp 4-inch  NOVA display with 700 nits of [...]

[ More ] May 6th, 2011 | No Comments | Posted in Cellphones |

Motorola ATRIX 4G HSUPA update begins rolling out

Motorola on Tuesday finally announced that the HSUPA-enabling ATRIX 4G update thousands of users have been clamoring for has finally begun rolling out to devices. Software update v4.1.83 for the ATRIX 4G includes several updates that Motorola claims will improve device performance — none of those improvements will have quite the dramatic impact that enabling [...]

[ More ] May 4th, 2011 | No Comments | Posted in Cellphones |