Saturday, 4 September 2010

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E-Noa Interpad Tablet Hands-On

Posted: 04 Sep 2010 10:34 AM PDT

Another unfinished tablet that we were able to get our hands on at IFA-2010, was the Interpad by E-Noa. This 10 inch slate had Android 2.2 installed, and E-Noa said that there is a custom skin in the works to go on top of it. They are keeping the lid tight on the details of the skin, until it is ready for prime time.

The tablet will have optional 3G/UMTS but will not be able to make cellular calls. The only thing available would be cellular data access. A Tegra 2 chip keeps this thing running smoothly and we did not have any Wi-Fi access (b/g/n) to the device, so could not put the browser to the test. Among the Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.1 is incorporated, and E-Noa is claiming the battery life is around 8-12hrs from the 3,500mAh pack.

1080p playback can occur, with MPEG2, H.264 and VC-1 codecs, among others. It is hard to give our true full opinions, without the tablet being completely finished. When put up against the Toshiba Folio 100 we are not sure we would pick this one over the name brand. The Wi-Fi only version is said to come in around€399 ($515) and will have plenty of competition, with all the current announcements of Android tablets coming lately.

[via SlashGear]

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Huawei Ideos To Come To T-Mobile?

Posted: 04 Sep 2010 08:49 AM PDT

T-Mobile is in talks with Huawei to possibly distribute the new handset that we recently got our hands on in IFA-2010. They are hoping to have have it available by this holiday season.

The Stock 2.2 Android phone sports a 2.8 inch capacitive touch screen, with a resolution of 320×240, 3.2 megapixel autofocus camera, 528 MHz processor, Wi-Fi, and micro SD card slot. Huawei has said the phone will be around $175 full retail, and we do not know what it would be on contract if T-Mobile brings it to their line up.

Nothing has been confirmed officially of course, but this phone would be on the lower end, entry-level side of T-Mobile’s handsets. Holiday season is not far away and we are looking forward to hearing something official.

[via Boy Benius Report]

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Google Music, The iTunes Killer?

Posted: 03 Sep 2010 03:10 PM PDT

Sources are saying that Google really wants to have their music service up and running by this Christmas. The plans Google has are, to allow music downloads along with the streaming of music to rival Apple’s iTunes Store. Andy Rubin is said to be having conversations with the labels to let them know how the service will look and run. Talk was made at this years Google I/O conference about the service coming later this year, and here we are at the start of September and we still have not seen or heard of anything confirmed.

Supposedly, from two sources, we heard that Google was planning to release the service with the newest version of Android or when 3.0 comes out and it looks like things are right on course. Google, as of right now, has not signed with any labels to get started on the music service, but if they are planning to launch it by Christmas they should be getting some details ironed out soon. We hope it comes soon because this has been one of the things that Apple has had an advantage on, against Google for a while. It would help make the competition even that much more tough. Where is that import iTunes music library button going to be again?

[via SlashGear]

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Android Now Accounted for 25% Of Mobile Web Traffic

Posted: 03 Sep 2010 02:37 PM PDT

Android is slowly moving up the scale when it comes to web consumption, says Quantcast. Since November of 2009 Android has made it’s biggest gain and is up to 25%. Compared to last year, they are up 17% on the scale. What’s odd is Steve Jobs says more and more iOS devices are in the hands of people but the numbers are down from almost 70% to 56%.

This could only mean one thing, the amount of Android devices getting into the market is jumping by leaps and bounds. Another aspect of this could be, does this mean that Android users are consuming more things on the web? Either way, this is good to hear that Android is still having healthy growth and who knows by this time next year it could be a 50/50 split with Apple and Google. If you are thinking about buying and Android phone go ahead and do it, help the numbers go up.

[via Quantcast]

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Samsung Galaxy Tab is Rooted For Now, Before Release

Posted: 03 Sep 2010 01:39 PM PDT

The Galaxy Tab, the tablet device from Samsung in the lineage of the Galaxy S devices, isn’t officially released yet. Yes, it’s announced, but it’s not widely available anywhere, but that’s not stopping the development crowd. As has happened with a few high-profile devices out there before this, the Galaxy Tab has officially been rooted, well before its official release into the wild.

According to the blog Sera-Apps.de, they not only saw a rooted Galaxy Tab, which is kindly pictured above, but they also played with it, too. Obviously, that didn’t take long at all — it’s only been a few days since the thing actually went the official route from Samsung. Unfortunately, the blog mentions that they aren’t sure whether or not the final build of the Galaxy Tab will be able to be rooted in the same way, or as quickly, but it’s certainly a good sign, isn’t it? At least we know it’s possible (for now). So, is anyone wanting the Tab now, that wasn’t before?

[via Boy Genius Report]

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Droid R2-D2 Ready To Be Docked

Posted: 03 Sep 2010 12:57 PM PDT

Unless you just really do not like Star Wars how can you not think this looks cool? Verizon has puzzle challenges on their website that leak information about the Droid R2-D2 as you figure out the puzzles. Yesterday the pics of the docks were unlocked and–not that they perform or operate any better than the standard Droid 2–we think they look really cool.

Verizon is really doing something different here, and they for sure have the attention of all the geeks and Star Wars fans. Is it good marketing or just something that is humorous? We would like to hear what you think about the R2-D2 that will come out eventually. Would you think about getting it just because it is named and designed after a real Droid?

[via Phandroid]

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Archos 101, 70, 43, 32, And 28 Family Hands-On [Video]

Posted: 03 Sep 2010 11:55 AM PDT

Archos has their whole group of Android devices at IFA-2010. We will start off first with the Archos 101 and 70. Both of these tablets are the bigger ones coming in a 10 and 7 inches. They both sport a 1GHz ARM Cortex A8 processor, 3D OpenGL ES 2.0 graphics accelerator and WiFi b/g/n.

The capacitive touch screen on the 70 has a resolution of 800×480 and the 101 is 1024×600 and both incorporate multi-touch that appears to be buggy at times. The slates have HDMI ports on them to output 720p HD video on to your HDTV and support the video codecs as follow, AVI, MP4, MKV, MOV, WMV, MPG, PS, TS, VOB, FLV, RM, RMVB, ASF and 3GP. The 101 weighs in at 480 grams, and is just 12mm thick, and over all it feels very solid without any flexing of any kind. It also is sporting a kickstand on back to relieve your hands if you are watching a movie or wanting to give you an angle to type on. Games on the device looked stunning and were very responsive to the action.

Now let’s move on the the 70. It is defiantly more pocket friendly with the dimensions of, 201 x 114 x 10/14 mm (the 250GB hard-drive unit is thicker than the 8GB flash version). The touchscreen was more responsive on the 70 than it was on the 101, it lacks the two-stage kickstand and only props up for watching video. When it comes to the camera’s both devices have a front camera, but no camera on the rear. The Archos tablets, are running Eclair 2.1 and are said to be launching with Froyo 2.2.

The 43, 32, and the 28, are the smaller of the bunch ranging from 4.3 inches (FWVGA), 3.2 (WQVGA) and the 2.8 (QVGA). All three of these guys are small hand sized devices that are half PMP and half MID starting out at $99, then $149 and ending at $199. These will support all the same video codecs, as their larger brothers and will also launch with Froyo pre-installed. The Archos 28 and 32, both are running an 800MHz ARM Cortex A8 processor and the 43 gets a 1GHz version; all have WiFi b/g/n plus USB Host and Bluetooth 2.1. None have Android Market access, instead using Archos' own AppsLib download store.

Archos’s 32 has 8GB of storage and comes equipped with a 720p capable camera, and with it’s low-res screen the browsing and typing are not the best experience to say the least. 43 is the best of the lower end devices despite it’s restive touch screen, rather than a capacitive. It has a really good sized display coming it at 4.3 inches, with plenty of features including, 720p video recording and playback (with a camera on the back), an HDMI output, up to 16GB of storage (with a microSD slot) and the same processor as in the bigger Archos 70 and 101. It will have Flash 10.1 support on board and we think with paired together, out of all 5 devices surely you can find one to suit your needs at a price point you can live with.

[via SlashGear]

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