Tag: Android
Sony Ericsson Live with Walkman: Musical blower without a cassette in sight
In a somewhat inevitable move, Sony's brought back their Walkman range today in the guise of a music-focussed Android phone. The Sony Ericsson Live with Walkman is an Android 2.3 smartphone, packing Sony's xLoud audio tech, a dedicated msuic player…
Nokia boss Stephen Elop slams Google/Motorola deal
Motorola and Google execs may be toasting each other's health following this week's big buy-out, but Nokia CEO Stephen Elop believes it could be damaging for the Android OS as a whole. He's suggested that by making Motorola a…
Motorola Droid HD smartphone caught in the wild
While everyone waits patiently for the Motorola Droid Bionic to officially break cover, new spyshots of its rumoured sibling, the Motorola Droid HD, have just popped up online. The handset is rumoured to be packing Android version Gingerbread, with a…
HTC Vigor has vigourous specs to match Beats audio
What appears to be the first fruits of the new partnership between HTC and hip-hop maestro Dr Dre's Beats audio tech has popped up over on Dutch retail site The Phone House, before being swiftly removed. And it's looking pretty…
APP OF THE DAY: Minecraft Pocket Edition (Android)
Forget Angry Birds; if you want a real gaming time-sink, you want to be playing the blocky world creation/tower defence madness of Minecraft. A cult hit on PC's, owners of Xperia Play gaming smartphones can now get their hands…
Google buy Motorola Mobility: How fighting the patent war could damage Android
Google, in something of a shock move, revealed today that they had bought Motorola Mobility, manufacturer Motorola's mobile arm, for a reported $12.5 billion. For years Google have been rumoured to be entering the hardware manufacturing game, testing the…
Samsung Galaxy R officially revealed
The Galaxy R has officially been welcomed into the Samsung smartphone stable, after a joint statement from Sammy and chip makers Nvidia revealed that the handset is "coming soon" to North and Eastern Europe, South East and West Asia,…
Motorola may yet jump on the Windows Phone 7 wagon
Motorola CEO Sanjay Jha has suggested that his company may eventually work on Windows Phone 7 handsets, if they could work out a similar deal with Microsoft as that which has been offered to Nokia. "I think we're completely…
Forget tablets: Amazon pushing forward with browser-based Kindle Cloud Reader
Amazon have launched a new browser-based web app called the Kindle Cloud Reader, using HTML5 tech to offer up their e-book reading experience. While many are expecting Amazon to launch two of their own tablet devices later this year,…
iPad will be king of the tablets for "the next ten years"
Android tablet makers, get your hankies at the ready; a new report from Charlie Wolf of tech analyst firm Needham predicts that Apple's iPad will remain the dominant force in the tablet market for the next ten years. "Future…