Latest Gadgets, Tablets and Smartphones
Yesterday, LG published a Facebook update (now deleted) that said Android 2.3 Gingerbread would not land on the Optimus line of smartphones due to it requiring a 1GHz processor to run it. Optimus smartphone use a 600MHz processor.
Shortly after that, @morrildl tweeted a “random note” as he called it and said that Gingerbread had no hard minimum processor requirements. [Read more…]
HTC has announced, or confirmed we should say, that Android 2.3 Gingerbread will be rolling out to a number of HTC smartphones over the coming months.
HTC has not confirmed which of the HTC devices will be getting an Android 2.3 update just yet although we suspect that anything built this year will get the update. [Read more…]
Andy Rubin has confirmed on Twitter that each day, 300,000 Android phones are activated.
That’s a very impressive number. Only back in August of this year, Eric Schmidt announced that 200,000 were being activated daily which shows a huge increase in 4 months. [Read more…]
The Three network in the UK is starting to push out the Android 2.2 update to Samsung Galaxy S smartphones locked on its network.
Three, just like other networks, is unable to push out the Android 2.2 update OTA to the Samsung Galaxy S which means users will need to connect up to the KIES software tool to grab the update. [Read more…]
Google Maps 5.0 is launching for Android based smartphones. New features that Maps 5.0 brings to the smartphone is 3D buildings, faster load times as well as an offline mode. The compass also plays a part in that the map can rotate to the direction you are currently facing.
Google [GOOG] managed to get the 3D buildings and realtime renderings thanks to using a far smaller file size. The buildings are drawn in vectors and overall, the data is about 100 times smaller which allows for faster loading and smoother scrolling. [Read more…]
The smart people at XDA-Developers are now working on porting Android 2.3 to the HTC Evo 4G. The port started as soon as the SDK became available. However, at the moment, don’t get too excited as it really doesn’t work and isn’t usable.
At the time of writing this post, the Android 2.3 is on Build 4. It started at build 1 where a message on the forums said “almost everything doesn’t work” although it does boot and the screen works. Moving up to build 4 and a few of the bugs are being ironed out. [Read more…]
At the Dive into Mobile event held last night, Andy Rubin was demoing a Motorola Tablet device running Google Android 3.0 (Honeycomb).
The tablet is called the MOTOPAD which is a prototype model that was used for the demonstration. As expected, Honeycomb is designed for the tablet. When booting up you get a new lock screen and once past that you get a new designed home screen “desktop” that contains widgets and buttons. [Read more…]
You might have heard already today that Android 2.3 has been announced. We now hear that the Nexus One Android 2.3 update is now being pushed out. From what we understand, the update brings all features to the Nexus One other than what requires new hardware such as NFC and Gyroscope. [Read more…]
Google has announced the Android 2.3 operating system today along with releasing the 2.3 SDK/NDK.
Android 2.3 brings a number of new features to compatible smartphones such as better support for games and better support for developers. Also included is VoIP support, video calling for those devices with a front facing camera as well as a gyroscope and NFC integration (as suggested earlier). [Read more…]
Android 2.3 is rumored to be announced as early as today. To further strengthen this “rumor”, the NFC forums new certification program will be announced tomorrow. A short, but insightful message reads…
“6th December is another big day for Android and you will find out how fast Notion Ink can work. (Eden is extremely compatible with 2.3).”
The Sprint Epic 4G is now getting the Android 2.2 update (in the form of Android 2.2.1).
The files are beginning to make it to Epic 4G smartphones in the US right now although if you haven’t got it just yet then don’t worry as it will arrive sometime soon for you. [Read more…]
Rover Computers, a company based in Russia, has announced a new Android tablet called the RoverPad.
The RoverPad has a 10 inch screen with a resolution of 1024 x 600 pixels. The screen is resistive rather than capacitive. The tablet supports full HD at 1080p. It has a 1GHz ZT180 processor along with 256MB of RAM and 2GB of internal storage. [Read more…]
