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by Sean Brunett
Apr 11, 2011
It appears that the Motorola Xoom is heading to Sprint's network, and will sport WiMax in lieu of Verizon's LTE. (No telling if you'll have to send it back to Motorola to get it, though.) Verizon had ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Apr 10, 2011
Youtube link for mobile viewingHoping to be the first kid on your block with the Asus Eee Pad Transformer? Sorry, but this guy beat you to it. Eight minutes of the slick little Android Honeycomb ...
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by Jared DiPane
Apr 08, 2011
If you passed on the Motorola Xoom in hopes of another Honeycomb based Android tablet coming to the market and have been eying the Acer Iconia, you will be pleased to know Best Buy is now accepting pr...
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by Phil Nickinson
Apr 08, 2011
Thing 1 - Rubin speaks on the state of Openy Andy Rubin: No 'one-size-fits-all solution' Thing 2 - Wifi-only tablets Wifi-only Galaxy Tab (7-inch) costs $349, available starting April 10Motorola XOOM ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Apr 07, 2011
Asus has released the GPL portions of the source code for their Eee Pad Transformer, and the tablet hasn't even hit the shelves yet. Just a few days after they published their support page for t...
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by Chris Parsons
Apr 07, 2011
Although the Motorola XOOM has been available for a while in the U.S., the WiFi only version is now making its way to Canada. Pre-orders began quite some time ago but as of yesterday Best Buy and Fut...
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by Phil Nickinson
Apr 06, 2011
'Quality and consistency continue to be top priorities,'says Google's VP of EngineeringAndy Rubin -- the father of Android -- has taken to the Android Developer blog to shed a little light on what's h...
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by Phil Nickinson
Apr 06, 2011
Here's the deal regarding which version of Android the Sprint HTC EVO View 4G will launch with: The devices we saw at CTIA were running Android 2.3 Gingerbread, because that's the most...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Apr 06, 2011
We've seen and heard Google talk about fragments (the good kind) and multipane screens for apps, but the dearth of tablet-centric applications on the Android Market leaves us wanting. I was crui...
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by Alex Dobie
Apr 04, 2011
The unofficial Android 3.0 Honeycomb port for the Samsung Galaxy Tab that we reported a couple of weeks ago has made some pretty impressive progress in a relatively short space of time. Now ROM ch...
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by Alex Dobie
Apr 04, 2011
Sony will release an Android 3.0 Honeycomb tablet by the end of summer, according to Bloomberg, which cites Japanese newspaper Nikkei. Nikkei's report is apparently based on information from Son...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Apr 03, 2011
Asus has made their web page for the Eee Pad Transformer (that's the one that docks in a keyboard) live, with specs and details. They list no dates when it becomes available, or prices, but they...
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by Phil Nickinson
Apr 02, 2011
The latest Android versions numbers are in, and it remains relatively unchanged from last month. Android 2.2 continues to dominate at 63.9 percent, up from 61.3 percent from the previous two weeks or...
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by Phil Nickinson
Apr 01, 2011
Thing 1 - Google, openness and privacy Honeycomb won't be open-sourced? Say it ain't so!Google tightening the reins on AndroidGoogle to have independent reviews of privacy procedures every two years T...
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by Jared DiPane
Mar 31, 2011
If you are a Dropbox for Android user, and enjoy checking out the latest and greatest in all Android applications, you will be happy to know that the application has been updated. They have announced ...
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by Jared DiPane
Mar 31, 2011
A couple of weeks back we saw one of our forums members make their own custom Motorola Xoom car dock, and others have been inspired to do the same. Android Central forums user buurin has taken the mou...
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by Jared DiPane
Mar 31, 2011
Our very own Phil Nickinson has been quite a busy man, pumping out news, heading down to CTIA to bring us all the coverage, talking tablets with our sister sites, and now hitting TV. As we...
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by Chris Parsons
Mar 30, 2011
With the slew of new tablets hitting the market we're going to start seeing new case scenarios for those front and rear facing cameras. One of them being meetings and conferences on the go. In order ...
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by Jared DiPane
Mar 27, 2011
If you have been waiting for the Wifi-only version of the Motorola Xoom to launch officially, today is your lucky day. Of course, some places were selling them early, and one of our readers did some ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 26, 2011
Youtube link for mobile viewingOK, all you aspiring Android Central bloggers out there. Pay attention, because n46kps is showing you how it's done. You've watched the unboxing, you've seen the benchma...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 25, 2011
This is why you all kick ass. Android Central member n64kps snagged one of those Wifi-only Motorola Xooms a couple days early from Staples and did up a nice little unboxing video. Yes, I've said unbo...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Mar 24, 2011
We're all waiting for Google to finally release the open-source code for Android 3.0.1 (Honeycomb), but if we're to believe Bloomberg (and usually you should), it's not going to happen in the "fo...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 24, 2011
Google just announced that in-app billing -- first announced at the Honeycomb event we were at in February -- will launch next week. In-app billing is an unsexy name for the way an app developer can ...
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by Alex Dobie
Mar 24, 2011
XDA user spacemoose1 is very close to having a working version of Honeycomb on the original Samsung Galaxy Tab. He's been documenting his efforts to bring the SDK build of Android 3.0 ...
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by Chris Parsons
Mar 23, 2011
Although we've seen the Acer Iconia Tab at Mobile World Congress as well as at CES all signs for this 10.1 inch tablet with a 1280x768 display, running a NVIDIA Tegra 250 Dual-core CPU pointed ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 22, 2011
Ahhhhh. So apparently the Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9-incher that we took a look at this morning was the European one an early prototype. The real U.S. version is just as sexy, and maybe even more so, eve...
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by Kevin Michaluk
Mar 22, 2011
Youtube link for mobile viewing Following up the Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 announcement and our hands-on Galaxy Tab 8.9 photos, we fired up the video camera to spend a few minutes of 1 on 1 time w...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 22, 2011
Update: What you see here apparently is some sort of early prototype of the 8.9-inch tablet, which is odd given they unveiled the thing on the show floor with great pomp and circumstance. You ca...
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by Andrew Melnizek
Mar 21, 2011
TouchType has released a closed beta of its highly anticipated SwiftKey Tablet keyboard. The larger inspired keyboard is optimised for Android tablet devices running Honeycomb. The creative...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Mar 19, 2011
Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) provides full 2D hardware acceleration in applications, and Romain Guy explains the ins and outs of enabling it in your app at the Android Developers Blog. Mr. Guy is a s...
