Apparently Vizio didn’t get the memo that Android tablets aren’t worth making anymore. It’s planning to release two of them — one with a 10.1-inch display, the other with a 7-inch display.
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Google Now Gets Even Creepier (and Why That’s a Good Thing)
Google Now, a virtual assistant that comes standard on the newest versions of Android, is digging ever deeper into users’ data in an attempt to be more useful.
Review: Android Game Controllers Turn Phones and Tablets into Portable Gaming Systems
I’ve been spending some quality gaming time with four phone and tablet game controllers. Here’s what I thought of each one.
25 Free Android Apps to Get You Started
A smart phone won’t get you too far without at least a few great apps, and Android’s no exception. As you customize your new phone to your liking, here are 25 of the best (and free!) Android apps to get you started
Apple vs. Google Is the Most Important Battle in Tech
The iPhone vs. Android fight is a dispute between two radically different visions for the future of computing.
via Apple vs. Google is the Most Important Battle in Tech | Business | TIME.com.
Samsung’s Galaxy S III Mini Is a Flagship Smartphone in Name Only
For some reason, Samsung’s Galaxy S III Mini has become the talk of the tech blogosphere, even though the phone doesn’t look all that special.
Here’s the spec list, straight from Samsung:
- 4-inch, 800-by-480 resolution
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Webtop, We Hardly Knew Ye
The most intriguing product announced at CES 2011 was Motorola’s Atrix, a 4G Android smartphone with an optional laptop dock. The dock looked and worked like a thin laptop with an 11.6″ screen, but didn’t have its own processor …
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Will the Android Upgrade Mess Ever Get Fixed?
Over at CNET, Casey Newton and Roger Cheng have a good story on Google’s Motorola division and its decision to renege on its pledge to update some 2011 phones from Android 2.3 Gingerbread to 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich.
Needed for Google’s Next Nexus 7 Tablet: More Storage
Now that Amazon and Barnes & Noble have announced their latest cheap tablets, it’s become clear that Google’s own offering, the Nexus 7, has a storage problem.
The $200 Nexus 7, which launched in July, comes with just 8 GB of …
Google Discounting Popular Apps to 25 Cents over the Next Five Days
Google Play – formerly known as the Android Market — has passed 25 billion app downloads. A large majority of those were from me, I admit. I get so frustrated playing Angry Birds that I uninstall it and swear I’ll never play …
How Amazon Plans to Tackle a Lack of Tablet-Optimized Android Apps
Amazon’s Kindle Fire tablets have a lot to offer that vanilla Android tablets don’t–lower prices and a larger media selection, for example–but a huge selection of tablet-optimized apps isn’t one of them.
Still, Amazon has a …
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Amazon’s Big Day: Kindles, Kindles and More Kindles?
FOLLOW-UP: Amazon Unveils New, Larger Kindle Fire Models
I’m in Santa Monica, California for Amazon.com’s press event, which kicks off at 1:30pm ET on Thursday. The company has officially said that–well, actually it hasn’t …
