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Samsung Galaxy Player set to give the iPod touch a run for its money.

The Samsung Galaxy Player 50 is basically an Android phone without the phone… in other words, it’s the closest thing you’ll find to an iPod touch for Android. It can run Android apps, handle music, movies, and other media, and do just about anything you can do with a Samsung Galaxy S smartphone… except make […]

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Tablets sporting Google Android 3.0 Gingerbread to arrive in January?

Apple might not have shipped quite as many iPads this quarter as some analysts had expected, but with over 4 million units shipped, the product launch was clearly a success. It’s not really clear yet whether this proves that world is ready for more tablets… or just that an Apple tablet has proved to be […]

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LG puts Android tablet plans on hold, waits for Gingerbread

Google has already said that it doesn’t consider Android 2.x to be an operating system suitable for tablets. While Samsung, Dell, Toshiba, and a number of other device makers seem to disagree, LG seems to be on the same page as Google. The company had been planning to launch a tablet using Android 2.2, but […]

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Toshiba AC100 attempts to run several Android apps with mixed success – Video

The Toshiba AC100 is a 1.9 pound laptop with an NVIDIA Tegra chip, a 10 inch, 1024 x 600 pixel display, and Google Android 2.1. Google doesn’t officially support Android for notebooks, so Toshiba developed some custom software for the device allowing it to work with a touchpad, for instance. Toshiba also ships the AC100 […]

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Google: Android isn’t designed for tablets… yet

Google clearly didn’t have tablets in mind when it designed the Android operating system. Way back in 2007, tablets were generally expensive computers running Windows software which often had a full keyboard, a screen on a swivel, and active digitizer and stylus doohickeys for input. Android, on the other hand, was aimed at smartphones. Flash […]

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Toshiba AC100 Android netbook to get Froyo in October (where available)

The Toshiba AC100 is a mini-laptop with an NVIDIA Tegra chipset, 3G modem, and Google Android operating system. Right now it ships with Android 2.1. That is, it ships with Android 2.1 in the very small number of countries where it does ship, including Japan and the UK. But Carrypad reports Toshiba is preparing to […]

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Samsung unveils Galaxy Player 50 Android handheld + 3 other media players

While Apple’s brand new iPod touch has specs that are pretty hard to beat (960 x 640 pixel display, 2 cameras, HD video recording, and so forth), it looks like Apple’s little device is starting to get some serious competition. While the iPod line started out as portable media devices, they’ve transformed into portable computing […]