The Google Nexus 5 is a top-tier smartphone with a mid-range price. For $350 and up you can get a phone with a 5 inch, 1080p display, a Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 quad-core processor, 2GB of RAM, and Google’s latest software — but while Google promised it would also be a phone that could take excellent […]
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Google releases Android 4.1.2 update
Google is releasing a minor update to Android. The latest build is Android 4.1.2, and Google’s Jean-Baptiste Queru describes the new software as a “minor update” to Android 4.1.1 Jelly Bean. The update may also let you use the home screen in landscape orientation on 7 inch tablets such as the Google Nexus 7. The […]
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Intel demos Lenovo tablet with Medfield CPU, Android 4.0 – video
Intel is showing off a tablet prototype with a 1.5 GHz Intel Atom Medfield processor and Android 4.0 operating system.. The tablet is a pre-production unit from Lenovo called the IdeaTab S2110 and to be honest, it looks nearly identical to any of the dozens of 10 inch Android tablets we’ve seen over the past […]
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Google released Android 4.0.3 software update
Just as we were starting to get used to Android 4.0.1, Google has released a new version of its mobile operating system. Google released the Android 4.0.3 platform and software developer kit tools today. The update comes just a day after the first Android 4.0 device went on sale in the US. Google will roll […]
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Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich ported to x86 chips
About two weeks after Google released the source code for Google Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich the folks at the Android-x86 project have released the first build for x86 chips. That’s pretty impressive, considering Google has only released the source for devices with ARM-based processors such as the Samsung Galaxy Nexus smartphone. Google is reportedly […]
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Google Android 4.0 adds support for stylus input
Over the past few months we’ve seen a couple of companies try to distinguish their Android tablets from the crowd by offering a stylus for writing and drawing. The HTC Flyer, Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet, and upcoming Asus Eee Pad MeMo (if it ever actually comes to market) all feature a stylus. But the manufacturers have […]
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There are about 6 million Android tablets in the wild
Android smartphones are outselling iPhones these days (although no single Android phone is selling better than the iPhone). But when it comes to tablets, the Apple iPad is still the undisputed champ. More iPads have been sold than all the tablets running Android Honeycomb software put together. But the numbers aren’t as bad as some may […]
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Now you can install Honeycomb on the HTC Flyer (but maybe you shouldn’t yet)
HTC hasn’t officially released a software update for the HTC Flyer 7 inch tablet that will let you run Google Android 3.2 Honeycomb yet. But a few days ago Paul O’Brien posted a leaked Honeycomb ROM designed to run on the tablet. It took a few days, but xda-developers forum member Globatron managed to get […]
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Is this an HP TouchPad prototype running Android?
Independent developers are racing to port Google Android to the HP TouchPad to breathe new life into HP’s recently discontinued (and seriously discounted) webOS tablet. But one man may have taken a bit of a shortcut. He apparently ordered an HP TouchPad from Best Buy and when it arrived it was running Google Android 2.2.1 […]
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Acer’s 7 inch Honeycomb tablet shows up at the FCC
Acer still hasn’t announced an official US release date for its new 7 inch Android tablet, but the folks at Wireless Goodness spotted an FCC listing for the Acer Iconia Tab A100 today, suggesting that the tablet is on its way Stateside. The tablet will be one of the first to feature a 7 inch […]