All Entries Tagged With: "android"
Google Android Voice Assistant
Voice recognition apps are popping up all over the place at the moment, with Google announcing plans to launch its own voice-controlled Assistant for the Android platform. Google says the new functionality will be tailored towards helping users ‘achieve real-life goals’, with ‘goal-oriented search’ a key focus of Google’s development plans for 2012 after the [...]
Android 6 – Key Lime Pie
A Google source has revealed that the successor to the successor of Ice Cream Sandwich will be known as Android Key Lime Pie. In other words, the successor to Android 5 Jelly Bean, expected to launch some time this summer, will be Android 6 Key Lime Pie. The Verge website got the tip-off from the [...]
Archos Arnova 7c G3
Archos is to release a third generation of low-priced Arnova tablets. The chaps over at ArcTablet have got their mits on a few snaps of the upcoming slates, together with a few specs. The new Archos Arnova tablets will run Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, although unfortunately this seems to be the most significant difference [...]
Android Phone Switches To Desktop PC OS
Now that modern smartphones are sufficiently powerful to do duty as full-featured desktop computers. Canonical is helping with the transition of mobile tech to the desktop sphere by porting the Ubuntu Linux OS to Android handsets. And that’s as a dual-boot system, giving a choice of two operating systems on a single smartphone. The system [...]
Harris Battlefield Android Tablet – Preview
Harris produces military-grade hardware and has now turned its attention to a 7-inch Android tablet. The new Harris RF-3590 sports a a dualcore 1.5GHz processor, a bolshy 2GB RAM, and a 1024 x 600 pixel multi-touch display. It features a 2MP front-facing camera and an 8MP-rear-facing camera and runs the Android Honeycomb OS. Socket options [...]
Smartphone And Tablet Market Share 2011
Millenial Media, fresh from filing its IPO, is currently the largest independent ad network, and has just published a report on smartphones on its network in 2011. Android Impressions grew 500% on an annual basis during the period. In 2011 Android made up 47% of device operating systems on Millenial Media’s network, whereas Apple’s iOS [...]
HTC One V Joins HTC One X and S
The 3.7-inch HTC One V has been unveiled at MWC 2012, the lower-powered sibling of the HTC One X and HTC One S, previously known as the HTC Prime and running Android 4 ICS. HTC concedes that the design of the new budget One V was ‘inspired by’ the old HTC Legend, which itself was [...]
Panasonic Eluga Power – Preview
The Eluga Power is a larger-screened version of the Panasonic Eluga, sporting a glorious 5-inch OLED display and Android Ice Cream Sandwich as its operating system. Feast your eyes on these early snaps, and keep watching for a fuller rundown. Eluga Power is showcased at the MWC in Barcelona by Panasonic. Via engadget
Asus Transformer Prime – ICS Rolling Out
Taiwanese manufacturer Asus has announced that the promised Ice Cream Sandwich update is being rolled out for the Transformer Prime. Starting with Taiwan so owners of the quad-core tablet and Europe can hope to receive their update sometime in March at the latest. US should have gotten their upgrades yesterday. About time too, it launched [...]
ZTE Ice Cream Sandwich Handsets – Preview
ZTE has jumped the gun at MWC 2012 by unveiling two major new Ice Cream Sandwich smartphones a week in advance of the Barcelona phone-fest. The ZTE PF200 sports LTE connectivity a 1.5GHz processor and a roomy 4.3-inch qHD touchscreen. the PF200 will be ZTE’s first Android ICS handset, and offers not only an 8MP [...]
