ARM has emerged the big chip player on the block as they’re sitting pretty heading into 2012 with market share in smartphones and tablets. According to a notebook maker close to Digitimes things aren’t going to change as Intel and AMD aren’t able to compete…
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Chrome for Android Beta Test on Tablets
Chrome has finally released its browser for Android and as you would expect, it works very similarly to the desktop version. So far this release is only for Android 4.0 devices, which sadly is around 1% of the market.
Once you get into the details…
Chrome for Android Sports PC to Mobile Beaming
Chrome has finally arrived on Android, even if it is still in Beta and only available on Ice Cream Sandwich it has some pretty cool features. It’s clear that Chrome attempts to create a unified user linking the desktop to mobile devices, so bookmarks –…
Android Market Place Gets a Bouncer to Keep Out Malware
Google is beefing up security around Android, a new service code named Bouncer will scan of all apps available on the Android Market. It will also take a look at developer’s accounts to search for malware, spyware, or trojans. Bouncer also looks for other cues…
Oracle Thinks Google Makes $10M a Day From Android Users
Last week Judge Alsup told Oracle that their $6.1B claim against Google was a joke and that they needed to come up with a more reasonable methodology. Today news has surfaced on how they came up with that number, Oracle assumes that Google makes $10…
Google vs Oracle: Trial on Hold As Judge Rules $6.1B in Damages is a Joke
While the tech world was busy ogling the latest gadgets at CES 2012 there have been developments in the Oracle – Google lawsuit over Android. Last Thursday a ruling was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California stating that there…
Intel Medfield Tablet Caught in the Wild [Photos]
Intel released an image of their upcoming Medfield smartphone in a hands on with MIT & now a random tipster from Android Community has gone and shot the Medfield tablet in the wild. We have to admit that this reference design looks good, the unique…
Android Battery Life: 5 Tips on Getting the Most Out of Your Phone
I recently returned home for Christmas to complaints from my mother that her Android handset, the Galaxy S, wouldn’t even last the day. Now she’s far from being a tech savy woman so i knew that heavy surfing wasn’t the cause of her battery woes. …
Intel Shows off Medfield Smartphone & Tablet Reference Design
There were more then a few nay sayers claiming that Intel would never release a smartphone and that Medfield would never see the light of day. Last week, MIT’s Technology Review got to go hands on with a brand new prototype smartphone running Intel’s latest…
First Ice Cream Sandwich Tablet Caught on Video, in China
The ASUS Eee Pad Transformer Prime was officially released today in Taiwan with Honeycomb, but its positioned as the first Ice Cream Sandwich tablet on the market. It looks like this Taiwanese company has been beaten to the punch as one manufacturer in China already…
Samsung Exynos Dual Core CPU has 2GHz, 2560 x 1600 Graphics
The first Tegra 3 tablet is about to hit the street and Samsung has just come up with a small reminder that they are a strong competitor in the Android tablet space. The next generation Exynos 5250 chipset comes complete with a 2 gigahertz, dual-core…
Ivy Bridge Leaked Performance Numbers – Faster Than Sandy Bridge?
Moving faster then Moorse Law has been Intel’s moto for a while and we’re eagerly awaiting the successor to Sandybridge, Ivybridge. Chinese website Coolaler has gotten their mits on an engineering sample of Intel’s 22nm-based Ivy Bridge platform. They’ve scored a desktop quad-core chip, and…
How to Sideload Almost Any App on Your B&N Nook Tablet
We all knew that the Barnes & Noble Nook was going to get hacked, we thought a day on the market was just the right amount of time for someone (surprise surprise XDA Forums) to get things working. Go figure it’s actually not too difficult…
How Snapdragon S4 Differs From Tegra 3 [Update]
With Nvidia’s Kal-El or Tegra 3 being released along side Qualcomm’s Snapdragon S4 the question is how are they different?
The new Snapdragon processors will have a dedicated voltage plane and clock frequency for each core which is called Asynchronous Symmetrical Multi-Processing (aSMP). As the…
Optimus U1 LG’s 1st Android 4.0 Smartphone for Korea Only?
Rumor has it that LG is getting ready to release its first Android 4.0 device. So far all we’ve got is this image and no specifications, but we can see from the photo there is an eight-megapixel camera with a flash. It does look like…
