Archive for the ‘Platforms: AndroidOS’ Category

MWC: HTC Releases Android 2.4 Tablet

February 15th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS, Smartphones & Tablets | No Comments »

HTC has joined the tablet race, but has taken a remarkable step in regards to OS selection. While all others are firmly behind Android 3.0, HTC has chosen to go for Android 2.4 and there’s more.

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MWC: Flash 10.2 Set to Launch on Smartphones and Tablets

February 14th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Adobe Flash & Air, Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

Adobe has announced that Flash Player 10.2 is nearly ready to roll out on Android based mobile phones. The first builds should hit Android Market over the next few weeks.

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MWC: Samsung Launches Galaxy S Mediaplayers

February 14th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS, Smartphones & Tablets | No Comments »

Though not presented at their MWC event, Samsung did have something interesting to show at their booth. The company made room to present their new Galaxy S WiFi devices that used to go under the name Galaxy Player.

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MWC: Sony Ericsson Announced New Xperia Line-up

February 14th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS, Smartphones & Tablets | No Comments »

Last night, Sony Ericsson announced three new Xperia smartphones, all running on Android 2.3 (gingerbread). Non-surprisingly, the Xperia Play was amongst them.

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Xperia Play Unveiled During Superbowl

February 7th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS, Smartphones & Tablets | No Comments »

SonyEricsson finally unveiled the existence of the Xperia Play through a commercial in the break of the Superbowl in the US. For all the specs, we will have to wait until Februari 13^th 18:00 (GMT+1).

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LG’s G-Slate Becomes Optimus Pad in Europe!?

February 7th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | 1 Comment »

LG has announced it will be launching the Optimus Pad during the Mobile World Congress. Given the fact that LG pushed their best mobile products into the Optimus line, we have all reasons to believe it will be the G-Slate.

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Xperia Play Commercial Leaks Onto the Net

February 4th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial, Platforms: AndroidOS, Smartphones & Tablets | No Comments »

While leaking the iPhone 4 was huge news in 2010, SonyEricsson seems to aim for a similar status in 2011 with their Xperia Play. Today, we received a tip with the commercial of the device.

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Google Launches Android Market Web Frontend

February 3rd, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

More big news from Google as the giant announced the availability of a web based frontend to the Android Market service. Until now, consumers had to settle with third party frontends to browse apps on their PC’s.

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Google Announces In-App Payments on Android Market

February 3rd, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

During their press event last night, Google announced the support for in-app payments in Android Market. With the release of in-app payments, developers can trial their iOS strategies on Android.

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T-Mobile Unveils the G-Slate

February 2nd, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

T-Mobile has just announced all details surrounding their new G-Slate tablet (from LG). The tablet will be the first to support the new 3D version of Nvidia’s Tegra-2 CPU.

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