The Asus Eee Pad will follow the HP Slate in ditching Windows 7, according to a new report. But while the Slate will run webOS, the Asus Eee Pad is turning to Google and will come packing Android 3.0 Gingerbread when it appears next year. The Asus slate was shown at Computex in May but it seems the Taiwanese tablet maker has had a rather radical rethink…
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The weekend has arrived! And what a glorious one it is. But don’t head out just yet. There’s been plenty going on in the gadget world, so sit back, grab a nice thirst quencher and catch up on some of the week’s top tech stories.
The eagerly awaited HTC Android 2.2 Froyo updates for phones including the HTC Desire, HTC Legend and HTC Wildfire will arrive before Christmas. The word comes from Eric Lin, HTC’s global PR and online community manager, who delivered some bad news for HTC fans hoping to see Android 3.0 Gingerbread this year…
Android 2.2 Froyo has found its way onto a rather staggering 1.8% of all Android OS handsets according to the latest figures from Google’s Android Developers team. Since there’s only been an official Nexus One Android 2.2 update so far that’s an impressive leap. And it got us wondering: have you got your hands on Android 2.2 Froyo? Head through to let us know and a breakdown of the latest Android OS stats. Should folk with Android 1.5 start feeling lonely?
Android 3.0 Gingerbread will arrive with Google Music, the search giant’s long-rumoured cloud-based tune repository, along for the ride. The news comes straight from Android product manager Gaurav Jain who spilled the details to Israeli finance paper Calcalist. With Apple looking set to deploy an iTunes streaming in September, we could be in for an interesting fight. Here’s what we know so far…