Android
The e-Paper market has enjoyed steady growth over the last decade, starting with the introduction of the Amazon Kindle back in 2007. While there are many vendors attempting to make a mark in the technology required in this space, E-Ink's offerings have ruled the roost. The most popular category of products using E-Ink's technology has undoubtedly been eBook readers. Recently, digital notebooks and notepads have also emerged as a significant driver in E-Ink's expansion. These products take the regular e-reader and add support for an electronic pen / stylus. These products were initially quite expensive and targeted business professionals dealing with huge amounts of paperwork and requiring note-taking support (such as lawyers). The Sony DPT lineup (review) became one of the leading products in this...
Epic Games Releases Epic Citadel for Android Devices - We test it out
Epic Games granted us a huge wish and released Epic Citadel for Android devices publicly this week, and included a benchmark inside. Getting Epic Citadel for Android and thus...
52 by Brian Klug on 1/30/2013Intel Introduces the Safaricom Yolo Based On Z2420 Lexington Smartphone Platform
At CES I took a look at Intel's newly announced Lexington platform FFRD (Form Factor Reference Design) which is an entry-level smartphone design aimed at emerging markets and uses...
17 by Brian Klug on 1/24/2013Checking Their Pulse: Hisense's Google TV Box at CES
So, Google TV is still happening. Indeed, more players are getting into the game than ever. Hisense is a Chinese OEM/ODM that's seen steady growth in the television market...
10 by Jason Inofuentes on 1/14/2013Hands On with the Parrot Asteroid Smart - a Double DIN Android Head Unit
At my first CES, one of the devices that caught my attention immediately was a slick looking single-DIN head unit running Android called the Parrot Asteroid. One of the...
19 by Brian Klug on 1/12/2013Quick Look: Pantech's Discover Android Smartphone
My weirdest meeting was probably with Pantech, who I met with in the Convention Center main concourse and seemed to not have an official presence at CES. Pantech’s main...
3 by Vivek Gowri on 1/12/2013More Details on Allwinner's A31 Quad Core Cortex A7 SoC
I stopped by Allwinner today to discuss their recently announced and now-shipping A31 SoC. The A31 is based around four ARM Cortex A7 CPUs and a Power VR SGX544MP2...
16 by Brian Klug on 1/10/2013Polaroid Reveals World's First ILC Android Camera
Polaroid has been struggling to define itself in the last … well, few decades. In the pursuit of new markets, they’re blazing a trail to become the first interchangeable...
10 by Jason Inofuentes on 1/9/2013LG bringing UltraHD, OLED and more Google TVs to your living room
LG President and CEO Wayne Park kicked off their CES press conference by reminding us that the brand’s presence in North America was launched a decade ago at CES...
5 by Jason Inofuentes on 1/7/2013ARCHOS GamePad Introduced: 7" Gaming Tablet with Hardware Controls
Sometimes it's easier to take risks, if you aren't moving quite so many units. ARCHOS, long a player in media playback devices has spent a few years exploring Android...
24 by Jason Inofuentes on 12/6/2012TeamViewer 8 Released, with Windows 8 and Retina Support
TeamViewer is one of those applications that some people have heard about and love, while others have no idea what it is. At its core, TeamViewer is a remote...
31 by Jarred Walton on 12/6/2012Android 4.2 Hits AOSP, Broadcom Replaces NXP with NCI Stack for NFC
Yesterday source code for Android 4.2 was pushed to AOSP (Android Open Source Project), paving the way for other developers to begin building their own Android images and looking...
13 by Brian Klug on 11/14/2012Google Nexus 4 Review - Google's new Flagship
The Nexus One was a groundbreaking device. It was the defining moment that Google got serious about making both a real consumer electronic, and pitting the Android platform against...
189 by Brian Klug on 11/13/2012LG and Google Announce the Nexus 4, Starts at $299
This isn't how they wanted to do it, but LG and Google are going ahead with the announcement of the Nexus 4, and it's a steal. The lineage of...
91 by Jason Inofuentes on 10/29/2012LG Google TV Review
I’m really not sure how it happened. Despite our coverage of so many different streaming boxes over the years, we somehow never reviewed Logitech's Revue, their entrant into the...
50 by Jason Inofuentes on 10/2/2012Amazon Kindle Preview: Paperwhite, Fire (2012), and Fire HD 7" & 8.9"
Earlier today Amazon revealed four new Kindle devices: a new Touch e-reader called the Kindle Paperwhite; the latest update to the Fire (not the Fire 2, just Kindle Fire)...
81 by James Pikover on 9/6/2012Google's Eric Schmidt: 1.3M Android Device Activations Per Day, 480M Android Devices in the Market
Some data from Google at today's Motorola On Display event: There are now 1.3M Android device activations per day, as of today. About 70,000 of those device activations per day...
14 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/5/2012ZTE Grand X IN: New Intel Medfield Based Smartphone Coming to Europe
ZTE is announcing a new smartphone today, the Grand X IN. It's their first Intel based smartphone, and it makes use of the same Medfield platform we reviewed back...
17 by Stefan Constantinescu on 8/30/2012HTC Desire X: One of the First Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Play Smartphones
Today HTC announced the Desire X, a device that resembles their higher end One S, but is targeted at budget minded consumers. According to The Verge, it has a...
15 by Stefan Constantinescu on 8/30/2012Samsung Announces Galaxy Camera running Android 4.1
Earlier today at IFA 2012, Samsung officially announced what will be their first point and shoot form factor camera running Android 4.1. The device is named the Samsung Galaxy...
22 by Brian Klug on 8/30/2012Toshiba Excite 7.7 Tablet Review: AMOLED in a Fun Size
While Toshiba's tablets so far haven't been necessarily bad, like most Android tablets they just haven't really set the world on fire. The only breakthroughs in this market seem...
50 by Dustin Sklavos on 8/29/2012