If you have a recent Android phone, odds are you have a microUSB cable you can use to connect it to a PC to charge your phone and transfer files. The J5 Create Android Mirror JUC600 is a cable that does that… but it also lets you mirror your Android display on your PC> That […]
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Hands-on with the XO Tablet (cheap, but uninspiring)
The XO Tablet is a new 7 inch tablet that the One Laptop Per Child Foundation hopes to sell this year for around $200. While it runs educational software designed by OLPC, it doesn’t have the same kind of rugged design as the XO Laptop. Instead, it appears to be a cheap tablet with a […]
Closer look at the Archos TV Connect Android TV box (video)
The Archos TV Connect is a box you can plug into a TV to run Android apps on a big screen. We’ve seen a lot of those in the past year. But the Archos model is designed to sit on top of a TV, points a webcam at you for Skype and other applications, and […]
OLPC’s next tablet runs Google Android (with a custom UI)
The One Laptop Per Child foundation may have dropped plans to release a Linux-based tablet running Sugar OS last year. But the company’s not done with the tablet space. The new XO-4 laptop features a touchscreen display, which lets you use the rugged, low power Linux laptop in tablet mode. And the foundation is also […]
Polaroid introduces the iM1836 mirrorless camera with Android
Polaroid’s latest camera may not print your pictures instantly onto tiny photo paper sheets, but the Polaroid iM1836 does have a few other tricks up its sleeve. The $399 mirrorless camera features changeable lenses, an 18.1MP image sensor, and runs Google Android 4.1, so you can use Android photo apps with your camera, upload your […]
Sunflex unu puts an Android gaming console into a tablet-sized… tablet
Ouya and GameStick may be busy working to bring Android games to your living room with miniature gaming consoles. And NVIDIA may be working to combine an Android tablet and a traditional video game console with its Project Shield handheld gaming device with a built-in controller. But Sunflex is taking a different approach, by offering […]
Vizio’s next 10 inch Android tablet features Tegra 4, 2560 x 1600 display
Vizio is best known for making inexpensive but fairly reliable consumer electronics, often with middle-of-the-road specs. But there’s nothing middling about the company’s upcoming 10 inch tablet. It will be one of the first devices to ship with an NVIDIA Tegra 4 quad-core ARM Cortex-A15 processor, and it also packs a 10 inch, 2560 x […]
Google Play Magazines now has “free for print subscribers” option
Google has added a new payment option to the Google Play Magazine store… and by payment option, I mean an option not to pay a penny. If you already subscribe to the print edition of a magazine, you may now be able to get the digital version for free. Not all magazines are supported, and […]
GameStick $79 gaming console promises support for XBMC and DLNA… eventually
The GameStick is an upcoming $79 stick which you can plug into your television to run Android games on the big screen. It also includes a wireless game controller, a special user interface optimized for the TV, and a store for apps and games that are compatible with the hardware. Now the folks behind the […]
GameStick $79 Android gaming console raises $100,000 in under 2 days
Apparently people really want to play Android games on their TV. Last summer the folks behind the Ouya $99 Android video game console took to Kickstarter to raise nearly a million dollars for their project — and managed to pick up $2 million in pledges in the first day alone. Now the makers of the […]