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Deals of the Day (1-26-2012)

The Samsung Galaxy Nexus is Google’s latest flagship Android smartphone. It ships with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, has a button-free front panel, and a large 4.65 inch 1280 x 720 pixel Super AMOLED display. Normally it runs $300 when you sign up for a 2-year Verizon contract — but today Amazon is offering the […]

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$100 ZTE Optik Android tablet heading to Sprint in February

Chinese phone and tablet maker ZTE has been threatening to enter the US market for a while… and now it looks like the time has come. Sprint will begin selling a 7 inch ZTE tablet for $99.99 starting February 5th. Update: It’s official. Android Police has details and more photos. In order to get that […]

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Qualcomm buys display company Pixtronix

Qualcomm may be known first and foremost for making the processors that power millions of phones and tablets. But the company also has a display division… and it’s about to get a little bigger. EE Times reports Qualcomm has acquired display company Pixtronix for about $175 million. Pixtronix is a startup working on MEMS display […]

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Tablets sales are up (iPad still dominates, but market share is shrinking)

Apple announced recently that it shipped a whopping 15.4 million iPads in the most recent quarter, with iPads outselling Mac computers by a margin of nearly 3 to 1. But how does the iPad fare against the onslaught of tablets running Android, Windows, or other operating systems? Pretty well, actually. According to a new report […]

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Korean researchers make eBooks more like paper books… for some reason

Digital books offer a number of advantages over paper books. You can carry around hundreds of books in your pocket. eReaders tend to be thinner and lighter than a hardcover book. And you can search for text, share passages, or jump to any page in an eBook. But there are still a few things that […]

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Android 4.0 ported to the original Samsung Galaxy Tab (unofficially)

Samsung has no plans to update the original 7 inch Galaxy Tab to run Google Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. But while Samsung says no, a team of independent developers say yes. For the last few months a few members of the xda-developers forum have been busy porting CyanogenMod 9 to run on the Samsung […]

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27 thousand students getting Chromebooks

Android isn’t Google’s only operating system. The company also offers Chrome OS — a simple operating system based on the Chrome web browser that’s designed to run on low-power laptops or desktops which Google calls Chrombooks or Chromeboxes. But you don’t hear much about Chrome OS these days, because Chromebooks haven’t had much commercial success. […]

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Open source Pandora handheld gaming console finally up for pre-order

The OpenPandora project is an open source project to create a handheld gaming console using open source designs and open source software. The Pandora has an ARM-based processor, Linux-based operating system, and support for a wide range of game console emulators along with a QWERTY thumb keyboard and dual analog game controllers. It’s been about […]