The Samsung Galaxy Nexus is the latest officially backed ‘Google’ Phone, following in the footsteps of the G1 and the Nexus phones. It comes pre-loaded with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS); the Android OS that is supposed to bring together fragmentation that Android has suffered between tablets and phones.
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A new white version of the Samsung Galaxy Nexus is launching in the UK. The white version comes with 16GB of storage and has a price tag of £496.79 inc VAT over at handtec.
Panasonic is launching a new rugged tablet called the Panasonic Toughpad FZ-A1. The device runs the Android operating system and has been designed to fit IP65 specifications. As the tablet is rugged it can be dropped from 120cm and is also protected from dust and water. It can also function at temperatures as low as -10 degrees C.
ViewSonic has announced that it will be releasing the ViewPad 7e Android tablet at the end of this month. When launched, it will cost $200.
The technical specs show it has a 7 inch capacitive touchscreen. It runs a 1GHz ARM A8 processor and has 4GB of storage built in. A microSD card slot is included to further boost the amount of data you can save.
Details have been revealed today showing that Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 4.0) will have native Stylus input available. At the moment, any support for a stylus has been added by a 3rd party such as on the Samsung Galaxy Note pictured below.
Google TV is getting another step closer to getting the Honeycomb update as the company has now launched the final version of the Google TV SDK to developers. This means that its time to start getting apps ready for when it launches.
Google has pushed out Voice Actions to Android smartphone users in the UK, France, Italy, Germany and Spain. The service now works in British English as well as French, Italian, German and Spanish. Voice Actions lets you control your smartphone by spoken commands. By telling your phone what to do, it will do it. Actions include sending a text message, calling, navigation, map, directions as well as performing a Google search.
Samsung has announced the Galaxy Note smartphone. The device is a little larger than an average smartphone in that it has a large 5.3 inch screen. One of the unique feature of the device is that it has been designed to use a stowaway pen so that notes can be taken (hence the Galaxy Note name).
Ian Barlow of Mozilla has provided a quick glimpse of what Firefox for Tablets will look like when it launches. When used on a smartphone the company tried to hide away a lot of the navigation to keep as much of the screen available for the web page you are viewing. Due to tablets having a larger screen, this has allowed the company to use some of that space for navigational purposes.
A prototype of the HTC Holiday has been spotted on the Craigslist website. The device, pictured below, will be going to the AT&T network when it launches.
Samsung saw great success with the original Samsung Galaxy S smartphone. With that success, they went on to build a tablet or 2. Now, we have the Samsung Galaxy S2 which is a new and updated version of the original Galaxy S.
When taking the Galaxy S2 out of the box you immediately notice you are looking at a very nice smartphone. The device is sleek. It's slim and not heavy at all. Most of the front is taken up with the large 4.3 inch screen. Other than that, there's a small speaker, camera and a couple of sensors. Below the screen a button can be found which has a touch sensitive button on either side of it.
Sprint will be launching the HTC EVO 3D as well as the EVO View 4G on June 24 in the US.
The HTC EVO 3D is a smartphone that has a 4.3 inch qHD 3D display and is powered by a 1.2GHz dual-core processor. When the EVO 3D launches, it will have a price tag of $199.99.
