Tag: Android

Samsung Electronics Co plans to introduce tablet computers this quarter based on Google's Android operating system, joining a growing list of firms seeking to challenge Apple's popular iPad.


Global handset vendors and PC makers including Nokia, LG Electronics and Hewlett-Packard Co are moving into the new category of devices, between traditional PCs and smartphones, taking a cue from Apple.

The Droid1 Incredible by HTC2 is the future of computing in the palm of your hand. The super-sleek phone is less than half an inch thick, and yet it packs powerful components such as a 1 GHz processor, 8-megapixel camera, and a large high-resolution screen.
Featuring the Android OS with Google, the Droid Incredible gives you access to all your social networks, websites, and thousands of applications, including Google Navigation with turn-by-turn directions.

Motorola Mobile announced the new Motorola Milestone XT720, one of the worlds slimmest 8 Megapixel Android Smartphones and the first to have a build-in Xenon Flash. This sleek (10.9mm), capacitive touch Android 2.1 cell phone also features a high definition (HD) video experience and enhanced media and mobile internet capabilities for users who expect the latest in technology and the ultimate Smartphone experience.
Taking full advantage of the power of Android 2.1, the display uses a powerful combination of Motorolas touch user interface (UI) and a capacitive touch sensor for smooth screen flipping and scrolling, and up to five customisable home screens.


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AT&T and HTC Mobile announced that HTC Aria, a rich and powerful addition to AT&Ts Android Smartphone portfolio, will be available exclusively at AT&T beginning June 20. Pocket-sized and packing the power of the Android 2.1 platform, a 5 megapixel digital camera and a bright 3.2 inch HVGA display, HTC Aria handset offers AT&T customers Android Smartphone functionality in an amazingly easy-to-carry design.
The combination of 3G speed, a responsive capacitive touch screen and an optical joystick makes the HTC Aria an ideal Smartphone for mobile broadband. AT&T plans to expand its Android portfolio to include other Android Smartphone during the second half of 2010. more...

Symantec has introduced an initiative called Norton Everywhere, designed to expand the company's security technology to safeguard smartphones, handle DNS-based Web filtering, and even protect connected devices such as digital picture frames.

The initial products, announced Thursday, include a beta version of security software for Android and Apple smartphones and a beta of Norton DNS.

A bit large for an Android 3G cell phone, which may be the solution for people with large hands, but the new Huawei SmaKit S7 Android tablet in any case has 3G communication functionalities. This finely designed Android tablet supports every Android software applications up to 720p High Definition. The Huawei SmaKit S7 tablet has a 7-inch widescreen display with a resolution of 800x480 pixels. Such a widescreen format for this Android tablet delivers a fine display of all the applications in a row. The Huawei S7 android tablet can additionally be connected via the home network, to other Android devices or a television. All in all, surprising. A real eye-catcher at the Mobile World Congress 2010.

Google's first phone is a superfast, elegant device with a few privacy problems.

Google's Nexus One is an astonishingly fast phone. Use it for more than a few minutes and you'll see that much of the slowness we've learned to associate with smart phones is not the fault of the network but of the phones themselves--specifically, their processors.

Today's 3G networks can deliver data to your phone faster than the broadband connections that many people have in their homes: a laptop equipped with one of those USB modems from AT&T or Verizon functions splendidly.

Handmark, a leading global developer and distributor of mobile applications and services, today released TweetCaster, the most advanced, feature-rich Twitter application available for Android smartphone customers.
Handmark Tweet Caster android application makes tweeting from Android smartphones fast, easy, and fun, delivering a simple, yet comprehensive Twitter experience.
In addition to all the standard features needed to enjoy a complete mobile Twitter experience.

BEIJING (Reuters) - China will not try to limit use of Google's Android mobile phone platform in the Chinese market, its information technology regulator said on Wednesday.

China would not limit any platform as long as it complied with Chinese law, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology spokesman Zhu Hongren said, responding to a question on whether the Android application would be affected by a dispute between China and Google.

SEOUL (Reuters) - LG Electronics Inc, the world's No. 3 mobile phone maker, aims to increase handset sales by 20 percent this year and is pinning its hopes on Google's Android operating system to beef up its smartphone range.

The South Korean company faces stiff competition in 2010 due to its relatively weak footing in the booming smartphones business against Apple Inc, Research In Motion and Nokia.