All Entries Tagged With: "android"
Ainol Novo 7 Tablets Coming Soon
Ainol has announced that its Ainol Novo 7 Aurora II and Ainol Novo 7 Elf II will be available from the end of May. The two 7-inch tablets feature 1024 x 600 resolution displays and run on a dual-core ARM Cortex A9 CPU clocked at 1.5GHz. Both boast a decent 1GB RAM and 8GB onboard [...]
Ramos W17 Pro – Preview
The Ramos W17 Pro is a new budget Android 4 Ice Cream Sandwich slate which runs on a dualcore 1.5GHz Cortex-A9 CPU, alongside a Mali-400 GPU, and brings a 7-inch 1024 x 600 multitouch display. W17 Pro ships with a very decent 1GB DDR3 RAM and 16GB of built-in storage. The Ramos W17 Pro offers [...]
Kyocera Rise Android ICS handset – Preview
Kyocera has released the Kyocera Rise, its newest Android handset, featuring a four-row QWERTY slide-out keyboard and the Android Ice Cream sandwich operating system. The device is targeted at the budget market, running on a 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon CPU with 2GB of storage and 512MB RAM in tow. The Kyocera Rise offers a 3.5-inch 480 [...]
Leaked Shots Of HTC Golf
A leaked press snap has turned up online, allegedly the HTC Golf , a soon-to-be-released entry-level smartphone. In appearance its very similar to the HTC Wildfire line, earlier budget handsets produced by HTC. The HTC Golf is expected to run the latest Android OS, Ice Cream Sandwich, with HTC’s Sense UI overlaid. The HTC Golf [...]
Playbook Android Sideloading Ending?
We recently reported financial trouble at RIM , and it seemed renewed interest in the cut-priced Blackberry Playbook might be the company’s saviour. It’s one of the best dual-core tablets out there, great display, good performance, but in the beginning was hampered by a poorly-equipped OS and its premium price point. Now that Playbook OS [...]
HTC One S vs One X
HTC petered out a little in late 2011, but the recent launch of the HTC One S and HTC One X have been very well-received, and especially impressive is the spec list for the mid-range HTC One S, which isn’t so very far from that of the flagship One X. The HTC One S lacks [...]
Eken A90 – Best Budget Android Slate?
The Eken A90 is a cut-price Android tablet, selling for just $157, and packing a respectable 1.2GHz Allwinner A10 chip, a hearty full gig of RAM, and 8GB storage space. The 9.7-inch display offers the trusty 1024 x 768 pixel resolution seasoned desktop users know and love, and the budget Eken A90 even runs Android [...]
Google Making Plenty Out Of iOS
Google offers its Android OS to smartphone and tablet manufacturers free of charge, which turns out to be shrewd business sense. Google will rake in $2.5 billion from ads and the 30% cut from app sales through Goole Play (formerly Android Market) in 2012. Android devices themselves brought in less than $550 million from launch [...]
US Smartphone Ownership Rockets
The Pew Research Center reports in a new study that almost half of Americans now own a smartphone. 46% of US citizens now own smartphones, and the results also show that the trend is accelerating faster amongst women, whose ownership climbed from 31% in May 2011 to 44% in the latest figures, while smartphone ownership [...]
Google Play
Google recently refurbished the Android Market and bolted on a few new features, repackaging the whole thing as Google Play. Google Play is an aggregation of the Android Market, Books, and Music, and Google hopes that together the various elements of Google Play will eventually rival Apple’s iTunes in popularity. Content is categorized under Movies, [...]
