Behold the HP TouchPad running Android! Last week we heard about TouchDroid, a project by to bring Android to the HP TouchPad, and even saw an Android Froyo HP TouchPad listed on eBay but Cyanogen has delivered the first video of the webOS hardware running Google’s OS.
The HP TouchPad in the video is running the Cyanogenmod 7 of Android Gingerbread 2.3.5 and the port is in very early alpha stages. Cyanogen says its working on a touch bug right now and aims to “create a ‘multi-boot’ solution where the end user will be able to boot into webOS, Cyanogenmod and/or other OSes”. The group says it’ll be “a long while” before it can release the HP TouchPad Android port to the masses but you can see it’s early efforts after the jump…
We could see the latest version of the HTC Sense UI make its official debut tomorrow when HTC shows off a batch of new devices but it appears it’s already been outed. HTC Sense 3.5 has been demoed on video by Chinese-language smartphone site XDA.cn in a five and a half minute video which shows off new animations, a side-mounted dock and a revised unlocking mechanism.
The HTC Sense 3.5 skin is apparently set to make its debut on the HTC Vigor and HTC Bliss with the HTC Kingdom likely to join the party too. The question is: with stock Android looking better and better, is there really any need for overlays anymore? Watch the HTC Sense 3.5 video and let us know what you think of the changes…
We got the briefest of brief glimpses at Halo 4 back in June at E3 with Master Chief fleeing a burning ship but now 343 Industries, the new keeper of the Halo flame, has revealed more about what the new trilogy has in store for everyone’s favourite super-soldier.
At the PAX Conference this weekend, 343 Industries creative director, Frank O’Connor, detailed the direction the plot of the new Halo series, now dubbed the Reclaimer trilogy, will take and showed off a tantilising concept art video. Click through to see it and find out what O’Connor was ready to reveal about Halo 4…
There’s still no ETA for iTunes Match in the UK but the the developer beta has just gone live in the US revealing more details on how the iCloud-based music sharing service will work. The big news is that iTunes Match will allow you to both download tracks from your cloud library to a Mac or iOS device and stream them directly.
To kick off iTunes Match will scan your music library and compile a list of tracks from what it finds. Songs already in Apple’s cloud library will be streamed from a master recording at 256kbps.
Music that iTunes Match doesn’t recognise will be uploaded to iCloud based on your local copy. You’ll then be able to access the cloud library of up to 25,000 songs on up to 10 devices (five of which can be computers). Take a look at iTunes Match in action on video after the jump…
It’s about time. After suffering more delays than a flight out Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport, the Droid Bionic will be “in your hands” on September 8th. Motorola confirmed the release date on its official @DroidBionic Twitter account.
Children have been conceived and then born in less time than it’s taken Motorola to launch the Droid Bionic. In the months following CES 2011, the competition amongst Android handsets has grown fierce. It’s hard to imagine a strong demand for the Bionic considering we’re moments away from Nexus Prime and Galaxy S II 4G LTE.
Rumors of an Apple-brand TV set have been resurrected this afternoon. According to multiple sources cited by Venture Beat, namely infamous Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster, Apple will produce a TV set by the end of 2012 or early 2013. We’ve heard whispers of an Apple-branded TV since 2009, but this time Mr. Munster believes the looming launch of iCloud will finally make it all possible.
The imminent launch of the iPhone 5 has earned itself a fresh set of rumors. After multiple reports have argued the fifth generation iPhone would include a four-inch display, a new report has denied such claims. The iPhone 5 will have a display no larger than 3.7-inches diagonally and the back design will be changed from glass to a metal chasis.
As with all rumors, we suggest you take the announcement above with a grain of salt. The news, as is customary with most Apple-related rumors, comes to us from DigiTimes. The Taiwan-based publication cites sources from several panel suppliers with first-hand knowledge of the iPhone 5’s display.
