Samsung Galaxy S II Shot & Specs Leaked

February - 12 - 2011 - Saturday 2 COMMENTS

Here’s a high res shot of the Samsung Galaxy S II

While the offending press shot has since been removed, the text remains intact with the following specs: Android 2.3 Gingerbread, 4.3-inch display, 1GHz dual-core processor, HSPA+, Bluetooth 3.0, and 802.11 a/b/g/n WiFi. Additionally, Paran says that this new handset weighs 116g (4.09 ounces) and is 8.49mm thick — which is close to, if not the, thinnest smartphone device we’ve heard of yet. (For the record, the Xperia Arc is 8.7mm at its thinnest point.)

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iPad 2 vs Android

News of Apple’s (AAPL) production plans for its next iPad model comes at an interesting time in the tablet industry’s growth, stealing a bit of the thunder that Android has been reveling in lately. With a camera for videoconferencing, the upcoming iPad 2 will reportedly be thinner and lighter, giving Android tablets running Honeycomb 3.0 a lot to think about. No word yet on the exact date of the iPad 2’s availability, but the mere suggestion of its production is enough to make consumers think twice about their first (or next) tablet purchase.

Android in the business world?

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Too Early For Android Tablets

February - 8 - 2011 - Tuesday 1 COMMENT




With the amazing success of the iPad, it is little wonder there are so many tablets hitting the streets. Android is the logical choice for most manufacturers, but the platform isn’t ready for the tablet form factor just yet.



Given that iOS is owned by Apple and they don’t license their platforms, manufacturers that want a piece of the tablet pie have to look elsewhere for the software to run the hardware. Choices are limited. You can roll your own, using Linux or something similar as the underpinnings, but this is a long process. That is why there are few homegrown Linux based phones. You can buy a company like HP did and get a platform – WebOS in this case – that can be tweaked to run on a tablet. Acquisition targets are few though and it is costly.


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There’s no doubt that Google’s Android mobile operating system has exploded from its first foray in October 2008 to become–for many–the everyman’s smartphone OS.

Google’s breakneck development speed has paid off since it acquired Android, then a start-up, in 2005. The mature Android now accounts for 53 percent of smartphone sales as of the final quarter of 2010, according to research from Canalys–and there’s no slowdown in sight.

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Android 3.0 HoneyComb is Google’s attempt to make Android tablets finally competitive with the hot-selling iPad. That primarily means goodies for consumers and developers. But there were some notable features that your IT admin or CIO will love.


1) Full disk encryption.

2) Stronger passwords.

3) App compatibility between smartphone and tablet.

4) Better user interface.

5) Web-based Android Market.

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News Corp. and Apple have just announced the launch of The Daily, an iPad-only digital newspaper of sorts that promises to, if nothing else, shake things up a little bit. But will it be iPad-only forever, or does News Corp. have other ideas? Survey says: other ideas.

Rupert Murdoch, the News Corp. the chairman and CEO, said at today’s launch event:

We’ve been very upfront with Apple. We expect to be on all major tablets. But this year and next belong to Apple. That’s just a market judgement

So far, there really aren’t any “major” tablets not called the iPad, but let’s assume someone makes an Android-based tablet in the next two years that even remotely approaches mass appeal. Given Murdoch’s statement, it wouldn’t be too difficult to imagine an Android version of The Daily.

Then again, given how rapidly Android development proceeds, who’s to say what the tablet landscape will look like in two years’ time? Did anyone even know what a tablet was two years ago? And by anyone I mean someone who doesn’t spend all day long F5-ing tech sites.

[via Crunch Gear]

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Android has not only triumphed as the No. 1 smart phone platform in the world, but it is very likely to surpass iPad as number one tablet OS, despite the iPad’s current 75 percent market share.

The observation comes from Neil Mawston, director at Strategy Analytics, who talked to Bloomberg BusinessWeek. Explaining that Android tablets had gained a 22 percent market share in tablet shipments in the fourth quarter of last year — a quarter where the iPad was on fire and the nearest Android competitor, the Galaxy Tab, was a rather weak offering at best — Mawston said, “If you were to ask me in two years time, will Apple have less than 50 percent of the global tablet market, I think that’s a certainty.”

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One of our several On Time Analysis column writers extraordinaire Ben Bajarin has written up an article by the name of “What Honeycomb Means for Tablets.” In this article he goes through how some form-factors require software created specifically for that form-factor, how Honeycomb is built from the ground up, and how every major consumer products vendor Bajarin speaks with wants a piece of the tablet market – Honeycomb being a big player in the future of this bursting market.

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motorola-xoom

Android 3.0 Honeycomb – details emerge…

The Motorola Xoom is the first tablet to run Google Android 3.0 Honeycomb, and Dave Burke, Engineering Manger from Google, was able to give us a more detailed breakdown of Honeycomb and what we can expect to see in the Motorola Xoom.





Android 3.0 Honeycomb controls:

Android 3.0 Honeycomb Browser:

Android 3.0 Honeycomb – YouTube:

Android 3.0 Honeycomb – books:

Android 3.0 Honeycomb: Google Maps:

Android 3.0 Honeycomb Gmail:


Android 3.0 Honeycomb speech recognition:


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gslate signup e1295297126671 T Mobile G Slate info page teases Android Honeycomb

The only mention-worthy Android Honeycomb tablet that’s headed to the US and is not the Motorola Xoom has got to be the upcoming T-Mobile LG G-Slate. Made by LG, the G-Slate will be the first 4G Honeycomb tablet to become available, and Magenta just put up an information page up for the device, in case you’ve been keeping an eye on this tablet.

Just as we saw with the initial T-Mobile G2 teaser site, the G-Slate sign up page gives you a simple silhouette of the device, devoid of any defined features. T-Mobile likes to keep their G-series devices under wraps until they’re good and ready to be revealed to the world. Other devices, like the Dell Streak 7, don’t need to be hidden since T-Mobile saves these kind of hype-building tactics for their flagship devices only. Besides, if you’re in the market for a tablet within the next few months, you’re likely not “getting a Dell.”

If you have yet to purchase some sort of tablet, and you’re looking for the top handful of tablets, then you’ll certainly find the G-Slate on the list. Our list of Top 5 tablets didn’t include some of the tablets we’re looking forward to, and if we were to redo the post, it would probably have to be a top 10 at this point, and the existing tablets on the list would be re-ordered significantly. Until that happens, we’ll have to pencil in the LG G-Slate and the just-announced Motorola Xoom.

Even though we’re still excited to see the iPad 2, Adam, and WebOS tablet, the G-Slate and Xoom have our attention more than anything else at the moment. Of the two, the G-Slate will ship with HSPA+ support out of the box, whereas the Xoom will need a hardware upgrade to get access to Verizon’s 4G LTE. You’re likely going to pay for that upgrade, too. So by default, Magenta’s tablet, even though we have yet to actually see the thing, is getting a big thumbs up from us.

If you’d like to stay up to date with the device, hit up the information page below!

[Tmonews via T-Mobile]

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