According to the Wall Street Journal’s always helpful “people familiar with the matter,” Google is planning to open its own online store to sell co-branded tablet computers.
I don’t claim to understand for sure why the Android tablet app situation remains so depressing. But I do have some theories. Nine of them, actually.
If you’ve ever wished that your Android apps could follow you from phone to PC, BlueStacks has a way.
Angry Birds Space is finally here, available as I type this for the iPhone, iPad, Android devices and more. I’ve only spent all of five minutes with it, but my initial reaction was “Oh, hi there Super Mario Galaxy Slingshot,” or if we’re being pedantic: “Bonjour, Le Petite Oiseaux en Colère Prince!”
We’re getting a clearer picture of Samsung’s Galaxy S III as more leaks and rumors roll in. In the latest, Dutch site GSM Helpdesk claims to have a press photo of Samsung’s next flagship phone, provided by an anonymous source.
Imagine strapping on a pair of giant multicolored wings, except they’re not actually attached to your arms — you control them without actually touching them, waving your hands up and down in the air, birdlike, causing the wings to move in tandem.
With every million iPads that Apple sells, Google’s Android tablet problem becomes more of a crisis. To date, not a single proper Android tablet has seen mainstream success, and even in aggregate they’re not nearly as popular as the iPad.
Is it worth it to buy the paid version of an app if you can download another version for free? If you value your battery life, it very well could be.
OMGPOP’s new game Draw Something is only five weeks old and it’s already been downloaded 20 million times. Right now it’s the number one free app for Android and the number one paid and free app for iOS.
OnLive Desktop turns Windows 7 into a speedy Web service that runs on iPads and Android tablets. It’s both an impressive technical feat and just plain useful. But at least one Windows expert isn’t so thrilled with it: Microsoft.
A strange thing happened during the announcement of Apple’s new iPad on Wednesday: For a moment, CEO Tim Cook stopped talking about his company’s products, and started dissing Google’s Android operating system.
