We understand 10 hours of battery life is impressive, but is there really such a thing as too much battery life? While off in the countryside or driving into work, odds are your trusty iPad has come up short on juice. To put a fix on the battery woes, Griffin has introduced their new PowerJolt Micro Car Charger for iPad.
April, 2011
If you thought you’d heard about every Android tablet coming in 2011 at MWC and CES, you thought wrong (so did we). According to a report on Bloomberg this weekend, Sony Corp. plans to release an Android tablet in 2011, specifically “by the end of Summer”. Unlike the usual rumor pile, this story comes direct from Sony’s head honcho, CEO Howard Stringer.
![Original Samsung Galaxy Tab plays nice with Android 3.0 Honeycomb [video]](http://cdn.electricpig.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/galaxy_tab_android3-150x150.jpg)
Just because Google says that your tablet’s life expectancy is shorter than you had planned doesn’t mean you’ll stop a determined group of developers. Spacemoose1 over at XDA has just released a video showing off what looks to be the early stages of Android 3.0 Honeycomb, gracing the seven-inch display of his legacy Galaxy Tab.
Step aside Apple, your iOS is no longer the most popular kid in school. According to Intelligent Environments, a British banking software provider, Android has stolen iOS’s crown, becoming the fan favorite with 28 percent of the British smartphone market. iOS follows behind closely with 26 percent, but let’s be honest — nobody remembers who finished second, right?
In five weeks Google is expected to restructure Android development, merging Google TV and Honeycomb into the Android Open Source Project, at Google I/O. The goal is simple, end Android fragmentation through a unified platform, Android Ice Cream. Whether you own a Android smartphone, tablet or Google TV, you’ll likely benefit from next month’s news.
It’s going home time, but before you dash out the door, check out this afternoon’s stories stuffed into one quick post: it’s teatime tech.
You might have seen our iPad 2 review already, but we thought we’d give you a different perspective from that of a jaded gadget hound. After all, the iPad 2 really is what you make of it, a super thin conduit to all the apps available on the iTunes App Store right now.
With that in mind, we gave our iPad 2 to a musician for a week to see how he got on with GarageBand for iPad, one of our favourite new features in Apple’s tablet ecosystem. Read on to see just what they made of it.
Occasionally games take a trip round the houses and consoles before they reach the iPhone. Today’s best iPhone apps entrant, Max & The Magic Marker, is one of those and it’s at its best in its iOS incarnation. A member of the same drawing adventure genre as Scribblenauts(which should come to the iPhone), Max & The Magic Marker is a really inventive game with fiendish puzzles and a really enjoyable way of solving them.