Posted on June 2nd, 2010 by ElectroGeek
Yukyung Technologies showed off a Viliv-branded, Android-based tablet at Computex equipped with a 10-inch, 1366 x 768 touchscreen. The Viliv X10 Tablet with Android offers an SD card reader, USB port, HDMI, webcam, and WiFi, and “could be an incredible iPad alternative,” according to a hands-on Laptop story.
Although Yukyung has not yet offered details about [...]
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Posted on May 12th, 2010 by ElectroGeek
Verizon Wireless and LG Electronics MobileComm U.S.A. have launched the first U.S.-destined Android smartphone from LG, previously promoted with the movie & Iron Man 2.& The mid-range LG Ally offers a 3.2-inch touchscreen, slider QWERTY keyboard, 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 2.1, S-GPS, and a 3.2-megapixel camera, says Verizon.
Earlier this month, the LG Ally was briefly [...]
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Posted on March 24th, 2010 by ElectroGeek
Sprint and HTC announced the first 4G WiMAX-capable Android smartphone, with downloads claimed to be up to ten times faster than 3G. The HTC Evo 4G is powered by a 1GHz Snapdragon processor, and includes a 4.3-inch, 800 x 480 touchscreen with pinch-to-zoom, a mobile WiFi hotspot router, and an eight-megapixel camera.
According to Sprint, Clearwire’s [...]
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Posted on March 12th, 2010 by ElectroGeek
Opera Software has released a beta version of its Opera Mini 5 mobile browser for Android. Opera Mini 5 offers features including tabbed browsing, a password manager, bookmarks, and visual bookmarks known as & Speed Dial,& but there’s no multi-touch support yet, according to the company. Opera Mini, touted as the “world’s most popular [...]
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Posted on March 9th, 2010 by ElectroGeek
AT T launched its first Android phone, the Motorola Backflip, for $100 after rebate — and with Yahoo as the default search engine. Meanwhile, at our sister publication, eWEEK, analysts sort through the impact of Apple’s Android-related patent lawsuit against HTC, suggesting Palm or even Microsoft could be the next targets.Motorola introduced its Android-based Backflip [...]
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Posted on February 26th, 2010 by ElectroGeek
Dell announced an & Performance Plus& version of its Inspiron Mini 10 netbook, including a 1366 x 768 display, a Broadcom & Crystal HD& media accelerator, and a six-cell battery.
The Ubuntu-ready Mini 10 also gets up to 9.5 hours of battery life, the company says.Dell’s first Mini 10 ran on Intel’s “Silverthorne” Atoms, [...]
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Posted on January 21st, 2010 by ElectroGeek
Chromium hacker Hexxeh has released a faster, USB-bootable build of Google’s Chrome OS called Chromium OS Zero. Meanwhile, ArsTechnica interviewed Google’s Engineering Director for Chrome OS, Matthew Papakipos, regarding the past and future of Chrome OS.
Hexxeh’s final build of Chromium OS Zero follows earlier, well-regarded releases of versions including Chromium OS Diet and Cherry. Based [...]
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Posted on January 5th, 2010 by ElectroGeek
Marvell announced a faster, wirelessly connected version of its tiny, Linux-based networking computer reference design, which plugs directly into a wall adapter. The Plug Computer 3.0 design adds WiFi, Bluetooth, and a built-in hard drive, and moves up to a new 2GHz Armada 300 version of its ARM-based Armada processors.
The Plug Computer 3.0 has a [...]
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Posted on December 22nd, 2009 by ElectroGeek
Shipments of mobile devices will nearly double in the next five years, according to a report from ABI Research. While that might not sound surprising, the research firm adds that fewer and fewer of them will be mobile phones.
In its newly issued “Mobile Devices Annual Market Overview,” ABI Research says the number of mobile devices [...]
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